Aug 26, 2009 | Expat Life, Garden, Homesteading Life
Despite a few setbacks in our garden (like the loss of 80% of our tomato plants), we’ve still had a fairly decent harvest. You can see our full list of harvest figures on our In the Garden page but here’s what we’ve collected from our garden in the...Aug 11, 2009 | Blogging, Money
It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been blogging for over 4 years now. I started with a blog about my Land Rover Defender and the traveling we were doing in Europe. We were going rock climbing and pimping the Defender so we thought it would be fun to...Aug 4, 2009 | Entertaining, Expat Life, Travel
The Lantern Festival in Buedesheim is an event we look forward to every year – as do our friends. Most of the 5 friends visiting us on Saturday have been at the fest for the last 3 years with us. Once they’d seen it for the first time, they were as hooked...Jul 31, 2009 | Entertaining
Most of the week I’ve been gearing up for the Lanternfest held every year in our little town. It’s a town-wide party and you run into almost everyone you know at some point during the event. Some you’ll see during the parades on Saturday and Sunday...