Internet complications

by | Jun 19, 2007 | Expat Life

After reading our Back from the weekend post, you may be wondering why I didn’t post all this info on Sunday. I actually would have loved to do that except our Internet was dead. We’ve been having problems off and on lately and were getting dropped during...

The shopping is complete

by | Jun 8, 2007 | Expat Life

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, we have a lot planned for this weekend. This morning we left the house at about 8:30am so we could start the shopping. We managed to get almost everything we needed from the local home improvement store, excluding the pots we need...

What’s with the weather?

by | May 29, 2007 | Europe, Expat Life, Germany

The weather in Frankfurt is notoriously bad. The winters aren’t harsh but they are filled with many, many rainy days where the sky remains gray for what seems like months at a time and you just hope and pray for the day when spring and summer finally arrive....

Back to life

by | May 14, 2007 | Entertaining, Expat Life, Homesteading Life, House & Home

We didn’t get anything done around the house this weekend because we weren’t here. But thankfully it will be a short week here as Thursday is a holiday here in Germany…and Stefan has taken Friday off just because he can. 🙂 We thought we would be...

Build your own climbing wall

by | Apr 30, 2007 | Europe, Rock Climbing, Travel

I’m sure this might seem absurd and perhaps even a bit frivolous…but if you know us, you know w love to go climbing. Unfortunately there are not many places close to us which allow us to do decent climbing. There is an indoor hall in Frankfurt but...