Saved by Sonnenstrasse!

So, after being kicked out of our old apartment, we tried not to get over-excited about our new place. Well, it turns out that it totally surpassed all of our expectations! Oh my goodness! It even has a lift - classy!

A little German story

To those of you who can't speak German, I apologise that you won't understand this. It was a little story I wrote in class as a Praeteritum exercise, and I kind of like it :) The cartoon is called "Gut Gemeint" and is part of the "Vater und Sohn" series.

Tom und sein Sohn, Frenchie, gingen Fische fangen. Tom sah einen grossen Lachs und benutzte ein Netz um den Lachs zu fangen. Tom und Frenchie gingen zusammen nach Hause mit dem Lachs in einem Eimer. Beide waren sehr gluecklich . Zu Hause wollte Tom den Lachs toeten. Aber Frenchie war entsetzt und weinte. Sie brachten den grossen Lachs zurueck, denn Frenchie weinte. Sie worfen den Lachs zurueck ins Wasser. Frenchie war so froh, er sprang in die Luft. Dann frass ein weisser Hai den Lachs. Frenchie war so deprimiert. Die grausame Schau erschrechte Frenchie und sein Vertrauen in die Gesellschaft verschwand fuer immer.

Zeit, wohin fliegst du so schnell?

So, why Scones and Sauerkraut? you ask.

Well, one doesn't often reject a title that is both alimentary and alliterative. And Sauerkraut und Scones just didn’t sound as good.

But, then, there’s also this:

LONDON—MUNICH—DÜSSELDORF—AMSTERDAM*—COLOGNE—BRUSSELS—LONDON

I can’t believe the halfway mark has passed us so quickly by. Man, I need to get onto eating some Sauerkraut.

*The title Scones, Spliff and Sauerkraut may have at one point also been discussed.

The most beautiful city in the world.

On the weekend of the 15th January we went to Amsterdam. It was magical, wonderful, delicious... All the adjectives in the world fall flat. Basically, I have decided that I will live there one day and be fabulously happy and wealthy. (Ha.)

The gorgeous Geetha in her trademark red hat :)

The German Sky

Freezing snowy weather often results in the most beautiful sunsets...

(The bottom two were taken after the footy!)

Footy!

So on the 9th February I went to watch some German footy. The result was some very foamy, warmish beer (yuck!) and an unforgettable experience with a sunset.

Our Blog, in a Bite

Monday 24^th January, 9pm

Pizza in the oven, popcorn on the way, and Xavier Rudd’s Food in the Belly feeding our ears.

Are we food obsessed? Maybe. But we are in Germany. And our Vegetale pizza is purely Wurst-free.

Now, mums, you mustn’t think this is a norm in the way of Abendessen in the Mädchen Wohnheim on Kampstrasse – Nutritionist Kate is out tonight, and today we eat as the common folk do.

(Kate: Blonde, metabolism like a Zyrtec*. Tall enough to crack through that glass ceiling, she is most likely to become the Jane Goodall of the World Bank, armed to the teeth, of course, with extraordinary linguistic powers – and, let’s be honest, infinitely better-looking than old Bobby Zoellick)

So, anyway, back to the food.

We mean, er, back to the introduction.

So we know that introductory blogs aren’t generally used to mark the halfway point of people’s trips, but, well, between the regular clashes with Landlady, Doctor and Dictator Cupsa (PhD. Passive Aggressiveness), the subsequent bitching about aforementioned clashes, travelling to the very [please insert your favourite adverbial cuss here] AWESOME Amsterdam, four hours of intensive German each day, Sehenswürdigkeiting in Düsseldorf, and then trying to recall how an Englisch English sentence is constructed at the end of the day, our pillows are quite often yearning for our heads.

So this Cat (the Photographer) and Geet (the Monologuer). And this is our blog.

*Dearest South Africans, please Google