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Friday Links
Making a connection… This Friday we are once again giving you some links of fabulous things we have been reading about this week. As the title says ‘These clever inventions annoy you until you break your bad habits’ – it’s amazing! Tiny little ideas and items that will hopefully help the environment as well as your health. A genius idea that I hope really kicks off! http://www.fastcoexist.com/3031764/these-clever-designs-annoy-you-until-you-break-your-bad-habits I have such long hair and although in the summer I just let it go wild and curl all over the place, I really want to start plaiting (braiding) it and learning some new techniques on how to do this. This website shows you…
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Our first AirBnB guests!
I wanna go home… We only put our spare room on AirBnB two weeks ago and our first guests arrive tomorrow! I have to say we are a little nervous – will they like the place and review us well? Will we get on? Will we make some new friends in the process? It’s all very exciting too. We spent this evening cleaning and making everything absolutely perfect. I have to admit I have never ironed pillowcases before and our place is sparkling! If you haven’t heard of AirBnB before, you need to get involved. Staying at hotels is so last decade… now you can stay with people in their…
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World Cup fever strikes
Food, glorious food… The World Cup is everywhere. Flags adorn cars, windows, faces. On the way in and once again on the way out of shops, you can pick up leis, facepaint and special edition drinks. There is no way to oversee that this country loves football and loves their national team. Whenever Germany score a goal you can hear the cheers and fireworks go off in the distance. England is the same, but I haven’t seen supermarkets gettin involved like this: What a great idea! I was very amused when I saw these, but now I’m a little disappointed I didn’t buy any. Tomorrow’s match is Germany – v –…
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Justice Served for Lunch
Whenever Vanessa is working, I usually pop along during her break pop along to say hello and join her to share some food. Lunch breaks at work are usually pretty relaxing and uneventful until today that is… While we were eating some pasta in a park, we see a guy sprint up the steps and straight across to the other side. I didn’t think much of it at the time until around 30 seconds later when a group of young girls and an older man came up the same steps and asked us if they we had seen a person run by in a green jacket. Then it dawned on…
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Schlachtensee – Paradise in Berlin
Come one, come all… Well, actually we kinda want to keep this place a secret from you all. There are already far too many people who have discovered this place in South-West Berlin. Let me explain with a photo: I know right? It’s stunning. There are two lakes joined together and called the Schlachtensee. We first came here in the autumn when all the leaves were changing colour and now, in the summertime, it has come alive! I could not even count how many people were here sunbathing, swimming, boating and generally floating around. We have learnt that when the sun shines, everyone in this city gets out their swimmies and…
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Unimaginable years ago
I’d like to see, the world today, in perfect harmony… Yesterday was one of those amazing days that makes me proud to be a human being living in an amazing city, Berlin. On my way to work, I came across the PRIDE festival. I didn’t even know it was going on until I tried to get into work and the whole street had been closed and people dancing on buses and waving the rainbow flag came flowing passed. Later on, Germany played Ghana. Having lived in Ghana, it will always hold a special place in my heart. I may be half-German, but I was supporting Ghana of course! And we…
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Quoridor
Today I’d like to introduce you to a fun little board game that is incredibly easy to learn and plays in less than 5 minutes but still manages to offer immense depth and room for strategy. That game is Quoridor. Which I assume is how ducks would pronounce Corridor if they could speak. The game is for 2-4 players (best with 2) and played on a 9×9 grid. The aim is to be the first person to move your piece from one side of the board to the opposite. The moment you do so, you win! The rules of the game are so simple that they can be explained in just a couple…
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Friday Links
But I felt like we had a connection? So, it seems every respectable blog does Friday Linkies, where you post some fun (or not-so-fun) links that you enjoyed reading over the past week. It felt like we needed to get involved too, as some lovely people have been linking back to our blog and it’s only fair to share the love. Our lovely friend Charlotte has recently left Germany (boo!!) and moved back home to Bury St Edmunds in England. Her friend Danni and Charlotte have been sending each other amusing videos, keeping each other up-to-date on what’s going on. Being an expat, it’s always interesting to see what other…
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Philharmonic at the Apple Store
Well, this is the first time I am not using a musical or similar quote before my writing, because today I’m writing about classical music and there are no words. D’oh! Right, let me get to the story. A lovely friend in London sent us a link with information about a free Philharmonic Concert in Berlin at the Apple Store. The word free is always a massive temptation for us, so off we went to check it out. To cut a long story short, renowned conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen came to talk to the small audience about his new App ‘The Orchestra’. It looked pretty cool – you can…
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Best Doner Kebap in Berlin
It’s got to beeeeeeeee… perfect! So, we have told you all about the most famous place for Currywurst in Berlin and now you need to know all about Mustafa’s Doner Kebap!! OMG people… we were wondering why there was always such a big queue outside this little stall. Every time we walked passed, it seemed people were waiting at least an hour for their food. And then, one Thursday morning at 11am, we did the typical Berlin thing. Doner for breakfast. Even at this time of the morning, we had to wait half an hour to get our hands on this little treat: It was better than I expected. In…