Travel chaos in Europe

We’ve had a friend staying in our guest house for the past week who is currently in the process of moving to Africa. And it’s not exactly a simple move either because her furniture is staying in Frankfurt in her apartment which has been sublet (which has...

The walls are looking goooood

So the neighbor came over last Saturday at 10 (he overslept and was supposed to be here at 8) and finished up the walls of the guest house. Read about him starting last Thursday here with previous photos. It’s really looking good and now we just need to get out...

Just putzing around

Ok, in German “putz” is what you call the plaster or stucco you put on walls. So yeah, I’m just making a bit of word play. Call it your German lesson for the day.We asked one of our neighbors who happens to be a general contractor and painter if he...

A progress report from 3 long days of work!

Well, it’s taken a few days to recover but the marathon of work while Stefan’s parents were here has come to a close for now. We still have a few other small project that we are working on (like the mudroom which I’ll post about in a bit) but we...

Catching up on things

Ok, it’s been too long once again since I last posted. But that doesn’t mean things have been at a standstill around here! For one, we got the glass replaced in the front door! And I got the bill yesterday which only came out to €63 so we’re pretty...