We’re just back from a few days in France. Since we live ten minutes’ drive from the border, is is generally easy to pop over and back for groceries or for a cafe au lait and croissant on a Saturday morning. It is a perk of living in our part of Germany and the novelty… Continue reading Learning French on Holidays avec Monsieur Roscoe.
This week’s German Holidays post takes us to the former East German city of Dresden. A year ago a family reunion on The Bavarian’s side of the family meant that we got to spend three days in the impressive capital city of the German state of Saxony (Sachsen). This was my first trip to Dresden… Continue reading Germany Holidays – The City Of Dresden
This week’s German Holidays destination is the Pfalz wine-growing region in the far west of Germany. It also happens to be where we live. We have taken short breaks here as well as plenty of day trips. The area is a holiday paradise with forests, castles, hiking paths, mountain biking trails and vineyards everywhere. Add… Continue reading German Holidays – The Pfalz Wine-Growing Region
At the beginning of the month I was running through ideas in my mind for this month’s Styling The Seasons. May is a month I associate with religion – making a May altar as a child, the first holy communion being held – and with the Maypoles in Bavaria. All in all, a lot of… Continue reading Styling The Seasons, May 2016
Because of the fact that we are a family made up of two nationalities, I am always interested to hear how other families in similar situations live their lives. And I thought you might be too. For this month’s installment of Multicultural Family Life I asked a French expat blogger to share with us how she, her… Continue reading Multicultural Family Life – Meet Le Coin De Mel
About ten days ago I wrote a particulary honest post about how life wasn’t going so well and that we needed to change things to make them better. Over the course of a Friday and Saturday, we – the four of us who can speak – talked, made list and discussed plans, all with the… Continue reading How We Got On With Lists & Plans
This weekend we’ve done a big clear up in the garden. During Autumn all our time was taken up with raking leaves and picking up fallen walnuts, so we never got round to tidying the garden before the weather got bad. The combination of a dry weekend and having no plans led to us deciding… Continue reading It’s Not So Bad Really, Gardening
If you are reading this, you are probably between 10 and 36 months old and are doubting your potential to be a successful toddler. Let me guess? You see other toddlers throw themselves on the ground and behave as if the end of the world is nigh only to be scooped up moments later by… Continue reading The Toddler’s Guide To Successful Toddlering
Come to my house on any given day and you might happen to find well behaved children, a balanced mother, a delicious cake, a clean house and a neat garden. There is a greater chance that you will find grubby children and a clean but untidy house, an unkempt garden and a mother slightly on… Continue reading Come to my house on any given day
