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Having a baby in Germany and praise for St Franziskus hospital in Saarburg - 16 Dec 2009
Just in case you haven’t been told by me directly or picked it up on twitter or Facebook or email etc Nicole has just delivered a wonderful baby girl to us called Lily.
As I keep updating my status on Facebook or talking to people in the UK or elsewhere they are getting very confused by the German [...]
It’s been a while…. - 18 Jul 2009
Well it has been a while since I last updated this blog – and I guess a lot has happened.
Firstly we sucessfully moved to Germany and we have moved in to a great flat in a quiet part of a small town about 5 Kilometers from Nicole’s family. It took a while for us to [...]
Moving on…… - 23 Feb 2009
So last month we made another one of those decisions. After living in Valencia since last May we have decided we are going to have to move to Germany from April this year.
The reasons are not simple to outline but they roughly break down as:
Nicole is travelling a lot with her job and currently a [...]
Read Full Post »From Serrig to Valencia - 18 May 2008
As previously mentioned we had great weather on the day we left.
I had packed most of the van the day before, but we were up at 7 to finish the packing and then at 8 Nicole’s dad and two Brothers-in-law helped load up the heavy stuff onto the roofrack.
We had a final breakfast with Nicole’s [...]
Read Full Post »The German (Serrig) weather and other Stereotypes - 18 May 2008
The day we choose to leave Serrig, after our two month stay with Nicole’s parents, was fantastic weather. I had been told all week that if it rains on Saturday it will be because the clouds are crying when we leave. I liked this image – so was upset to see that the clouds had [...]
Read Full Post »Mischief Night - 09 May 2008
I forgot to mention in my posting about May 1st about the night before – Mischief Night.
This is another great invention – once it is dark people lurk around and play mischief on others – simple things like throwing loo roll all over a garden – to planting trees and stealing door mats etc – [...]
Why don’t we celebrate so hard? - 09 May 2008
Having previously seen how Germans celebrate on Shrove Tuesday (and the weeks before it) and compared that to our tradition of eating pancakes – I’ve been thinking about why we don’t put the same effort into celebrating events.
I still have no idea – but just before we left Germany I was lucky enough to get [...]
A nice sunny Sunday walk - 09 May 2008
We went out for a great walk on Sunday up to a rocks that sticks out from high above the other side of the river.
Here are some photos of the great views:
I carried the rucksack with Lunch and some water in it – not realising that we didn’t have enough water and that we had [...]
Read Full Post »Visit from my mum - 09 May 2008
My mum came to visit in Germany and a good time was had by all – it took quite a while to organise before hand as there were passport problems and other such things – but it was all worth it in the end.
Apart from seeing mum and for her to get a better understanding [...]
Finally a picture that captures where I am - 29 Apr 2008
I’ve tried with other pictures and words to describe Serrig but I think this picture captures it all:
It is lucky that the photographer (my mum) got the boat on the river as this sets a scale for the river also.
Click on the picture to get a better look. You can see that Serrig is not [...]