This Christmas season

well, since I won’t really have the pleasure of spending the pre-Christmas time with my hun, I am trying to keep busy… on Tuesday, I went to get a Christmas Star for my Mom and then we had my aunt and cousin over for a Nikolaus-coffee klatsch [this is indeed...

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Happy Nikolaus!

today is Nikolaus and if you don’t know what that is click here. Unfortunately this website doesn’t explain the tradition of children putting their shoes outside of the door and in the night from the 5th to the 6th of December Nikolaus will put goodies in your shoes. It’s always...

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Christmas time

The weekend was perfect to get into that special Christmas mood. We had more snow on Saturday morning and it was freakin’ cold, so I bundled up and took the train to Köln. Surprisingly, Köln didn’t have any snow at all… but the Christmas market had started next to the...

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The first snow…

yes, believe it or not, we had the first snow last night. It’s unbelievable. We hadn’t had snow in November for many years (as far as I can remember… and when I was in Germany ;)), so it pretty much came as a surprise this morning when I looked out...

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