Hello everyone, I’m sending you frosty greetings from snowy Germany! I arrived here on Friday evening and let me tell you that since then the snow hasn’t stopped falling. In fact, we are sort of snowed in and people keep on shovelling snow from as early 5am in the morning. Tomorrow, I hope to join my dad…
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Category: Living Abroad
A weekend in the Lake District + Force Mill cottage
I spent the last weekend in the Lake District with the boyfriend’s family. We stayed in a beautiful little cottage called Force Mill where we celebrated my “father-in-law’s” 65th birthday (shhh, he doesn’t look it). The whole family had a brilliant time waddling through the snow-covered banks of the river Eden, discovering the Christmas market…
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Christmas Decoration Ideas
I’ve recently pinned together a few Christmas decoration ideas. The holiday season has officially begun and my Christmas nesting instinct is slowly starting to kick in. And although my flat is only small, I can still see myself carrying home a tiny tree from the Liverpool Christmas market. Or maybe I could transform my Bonsai? Would that…
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Me-Time.
It might sound silly but I’m a strong believer in me-time. Whether you are in a relationship, share a house with other people, or live with your family. I find it so, so important to have some me-time every now and then. I just like to sit down, do my thing, sometime even with the…
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The Krauts – How to become German
How can I become German & what’s it like to be one? The Urban Dictionary defines us as “a nation of people who are fanatical about David Hasselhoff, and when they go to beaches–either in their own or in other countries; they’re always digging holes!” Very well but there is actually more to us than our fascination with…
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