Arrived in Colmar. Check. Got keys to apartment. Check. Realized that apartment was indeed in the center of the town. Check. 90% IKEA furniture. Check. Hey, I’ve got the same water pitcher! Check. Remembered to ask for bed sheets. No check. Bought bed sheets. Check. Bought nice enough bed sheets to use at home. Check. […]

I almost forgot… yes, of course there will be a short vacation this year as well. This year the planning more or less fell into my hands (again, I’d say), with a few basic requirements. Not too far away, but nice. The not too far away mostly was a requirement because again we will only […]

1. The axolotls in the Artis Aquarium are way, waaaaay cuter than those in Liège. 2. This is the first place outside of the U.S. and other than my kitchen where we got American pancakes that actually had something of a resemblance to what we know American pancakes should look and taste like. Also, quite […]

There is also a doorman and a sweet roof top deck with a killer view of the Empire State Building. Listen, Liz, I love you. I do. But see, we don’t even have a roof top deck, let alone one with a killer view of the Empire State Building. We do have a terrace and […]

I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Augsburg, where my husband has a job for today and tomorrow (not at the coffee shop, but in Augsburg of course), so I can walk the town alone by day and later tonight he will join me in exploring. I hoped that maybe going to the southern part […]

Now that I’m done with the important reading, please let me go back to missing Kraków fervently. I wonder if Kraków misses us, too.

It’s Tuesday afternoon, which means that half of our week in Cracow is over. So far we’ve had an amazing time and I highly recommend this city to anyone who wants to spend some time in a pretty and charming European town. You shouldn’t be worried about communication problems. The standard answer to a shy […]

Cracow is awesome. And it has wireless LAN access, too. Even better, I can already say important things like „Thanks“ and „Goodbye“ in Polish. How cool is that?

If you don’t hear anything from me in the next week it’s because we’re in Krakow. If you do hear something from me here it’s because there might be wireless LAN access in Krakow. Who knows? On a completely different note we haven’t heard anything from the real estate agent so far and it’s slowly […]

Booked a much-too-big-for-the-two-of-us apartment: Check. Booked the flight: Check. Bought a traveler’s guide: Check. Got all giddy about going on vacation to a town where there are still dairy bars, for heaven’s sake: Check.