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 become a nightmare of its own), some of […]

On Easter Sunday (which feels like forever ago), we decided to enjoy the gorgeous sunshine and take Mackenzie to the park for her very first time. We have a couple of small, local parks in our area…one of which is just two blocks from us. So we went there first, hoping that there wouldn’t be […]

Our first day in Schmiedefeld, we had absolutely gorgeous weather. We really hoped the rest of our time there would be just as wonderful but it started raining on day two and we refused to just stay inside. Thanks to the loads of brochures in the table of our guest house, and the ones Stefan […]

Hi! What a day I’ve had so far. This morning I ran into my friend, Dexter, and we got to go on a nice long walk together. He’s getting better about not chewing on my ears and I only had to tell him to back off once. In fact, we actually had a really good […]

Over Easter I bought all the goodies needed to have smoked salmon with potato pancakes for breakfast. But I ended up with way too much salmon (as usual) and not enough potato pancakes…so what to do? I’ve been to a few Italian restaurants where they served a smoked salmon pasta dish…but unfortunately most of them […]