by Tiffany | Sep 20, 2007 | Travel
I’m not sure I would be totally comfortable with this myself but it is an interesting concept. Geenee is a website for home-owners who are interested to trade houses for a few days, weeks or longer with someone else so that they can experience a more local...
by Tiffany | Aug 8, 2007 | Entertaining, Expat Life, Travel
Because of our housewarming party, we didn’t get to attend the festival on Saturday night. Some of our guests did go down to see the parade pass through though, which actually lasted about 2 hours and featured 25 organizations and 7 marching bands. The all came...
by Tiffany | Jul 27, 2007 | Entertaining, Expat Life
With just over a week to go to our housewarming party, I am now in full speed ahead mode to get things accomplished around here. This morning I replanted our fig tree so that it has some space to grow finally and will retain a bit of water. I’ve moved it into...
by Tiffany | Jul 17, 2007 | Expat Life, Pets, The puppy years (1-2)
The past few days have been scorchers. It’s been well above 90 degrees and that’s not really normal for Germany…but thinking about the last few years and what the weather has been like, it’s hard to define “normal weather” anymore....
by Tiffany | Jun 24, 2007 | Decorating, Entertaining, Expat Life, Homesteading Life
We are starting to plan the first somewhat major party to be held at our home in the next year or so. We had Stefan’s 10 year high school class reunion here – but that turned out to be about 10 people including us. That party did require a little bit of...
by Tiffany | Jun 22, 2007 | Expat Life, Homesteading Life, Travel
Stefan and I were out walking the dog yesterday evening and one of the locals from town rode up on his bicycle behind us. The two of us were talking and didn’t hear him come up behind us…and we were walking side-by-side with the dog taking up the rest of...