Hi everyone, I come to you with a heavy heart today. My bestest friend in the world, Maya, passed away last week. She was only 4 years old like me and taken long before her time by cancer. Maya was a Bernese Mountain Dog and we were best buds from the first moment we met. […]

It seems like the winter vacation we took to East Germany was ages ago now, but somehow I still didn’t manage to say everything about it that I wanted to about it. I talked about our guest house, shared a bunch of photos from one of our walks and the trip to the aquarium, and […]

Stefan has been thinking about getting a new car for commuting. You may remember that he bought a motorcycle a few years ago to cut back on parking fees and gas costs. But when you have to wear a suit everyday, it’s not really practical…and the weather here in Frankfurt tends to be on the […]

I’m almost ashamed to share the next few photos with you, but I have to admit that after our very long winter and a muddy spring, Mackenzie’s jogging stroller was starting to look pretty bad. We probably are a lot tougher on our stroller than a lot of people, because rain, snow, sleet or sunshine, […]

Wild garlic (Allium ursinum AKA bear’s garlic, ramsons or Bärlauch in German) is a wonderful chive cousin that we’re lucky to have growing in our courtyard and a bit in our garden too. At Mackenzie’s christening dinner, we were served a wild garlic soup that was just incredible. I vowed after that to never let […]