summer

What Are You Looking Forward To This Summer?

Pic by Franzi. I asked my pals: „What are you looking forward to this summer?“ Surprisingly, their answers turned out quite variable – from gardening, hiking tours, mild nights or going to festivals. What would I answer? Spending time with those wonderful people, of course (and enjoying the brightness of warm lazy summer days). Here

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Panzanella!

Pic by Franzi. Here comes one of the many dishes we prepared during the last two weeks on our summer vacations. This one is an Italian classic: Panzanella! It’s easy to prepare (but needs some time to marinate) and tastes like a day in Tuscany! Recipe: Serves 4. Ingredients: 2 loaves of one day old

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Maritime Living!

One cup for me & one for him :). Pic by Franzi. Since I am on vacation at the Baltic Sea, the inventory of my wardrobe has to pause for two weeks. But here are also some beautiful looking things arround: Yesterday we shopped those two hand-made maritime cups in this little shop. …Two souvenirs,

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Why I Love Hamburg: Planten un Blomen’s Water-Light Concerts!

The illuminated fountains! All Pics by Franzi. Hamburg’s biggest park has the funny name Planten un Blomen („plants and blooms“). During the summer months there’s a nightly fountain show, playing with light and music, the Wasserlichtkonzerte (water-light concerts)! It’s absolutely worth to watch (and hear). I attended it for the first time last week and

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