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May Day
While I sit here nursing a spring flu, I thought I would share our May Day adventures. May Day, or European Labor Day, was Tuesday, May 1 which meant a day off from school and work, closed shops and supermarkets, and as weather permitted, a BBQ. Ken has a few American colleagues who were looking ...
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Diffract and Destroy
First, I apologize for my blogging absence, but I know Rachel has been keeping everyone up to date on our adventure. In the mean time, I have been settling in to my new job at DESY, and learning the ropes. So, for this post I will be talking about science. But before you tune out, ...
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German Eggs
I’m crazy…an entire post about eggs? Yes…because with Easter coming up, and a plethora of all-things-egg adorning shop windows and neighbors doors, compounded by my unnatural love for egg consumption, I thought it might be time. When we moved to Europe, one of the first things I noticed in the market is that eggs are not refrigerated. ...
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German Class
For the past three weeks, while Ken is at work, I’ve been taking Intensive German classes here at the Colon School of Language. It has been…intense. Our teachers rarely speak in anything other than Deutsch, even to explain meanings of words. Throughout the day you can see each of us opening our dictionaries under the desk to ...
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Grocery Shopping
We live in a fairly residential neighborhood in Othmarschen, secluded from the traffic and noise of nearby Altona. While this allows for peaceful weekends and historical walks on misty Hamburg mornings, we don’t have a reasonably priced supermarket in our direct neighborhood. For last minute items, Waitzstraße is the perfect place to pick up the ...
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Meet Candy – Our NEW Washing Machine
Meet Candy… After three weeks of carrying one of those large blue IKEA bags filled with laundry to the laundromat, I’d had enough. I went on strike and told Ken that he’d have to wash his socks by hand until we got a washing machine because the schlep to Laundrette, the only laundromat even remotely ...
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Welcome to Our Home
We live on the top floor of a Victorian era home in Othmarschen, Hamburg – a district just west of the Hamburg city center. Othmarschen is truly lovely. Walking around the neighborhood, there are a plethora of gorgeous art deco / turn of the century homes. This postcard is from 1907, and yet the home ...
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Let’s do it!
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. -Neale Donald Walsch It’s been a crazy transition, moving from everything that you know and hold familiar to a place where the language is foreign, the customs are foreign and you yourself feel foreign. We’re taking it one day at a time… Let’s see how this goes. ...
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We Did It!
On October 15, 2011, we tied the knot. Then after an incredible honeymoon, an insane amount of packing, and a lot of love from our friends and family, we finally boarded the plane to our new home for the next two years: Hamburg, Germany. We’re still getting settled and running around – Ken is in ...