Middle Europe Weekly Small Pleasures #32 – Roses and burrs

If I haven’t been posting lately, it’s because not much has been happening. That said, nothing happening is probably a good thing, taking into account all the bad news lately worldwide.

I still want to write a post about our hiking trip to the Alps in May, but I have to sort out all of my photos first. Anyway, for now, I thought I’d have a quick catch up over a Weekly small pleasures post. Weekly small pleasures as you probably know by now, is Mani’s blog event where you try to remember the good things that happened during the week. This is an easy way to be grateful for what you have and to focus on the good. Continue reading

Posts I’ve yet to publish

Dear bloggers, I bet all of you have a few posts in your draft box that have not yet been published! Well, Alyssa at the blog alyssagoesbang wants to hear about them. I definitely have some sitting around that I’ve been meaning to finish (or start) for ages, and I enjoyed reading other people’s lists too. Here is my list. Which one of these abandoned posts would you like to see me finally publish? Continue reading

Weekly small pleasures #24 – Holding onto summer

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Where did August go?

Well – we  were getting married! Most of August was consumed with wedding preparations. Organizing a wedding (not to mention the paperwork for the marriage) takes a lot more time than I would have expected.  We also snuck in a brief trip to the Canary islands, which I will definitely share some photos of at some point! My parents stayed with us in Berlin the week after the wedding, which made me think I should also share some photos of Berlin and Prague at some point.

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Anyway – now things are back to normal, and we have been lucky enough in Berlin to be having really hot September weather. September is often still sunny and nice, but this year we’ve even had really warm temperatures to go with it. This is a great pleasure, and I feel a bit sentimental about every sunny day knowing that the autumn temperatures will probably set in from this weekend (the forecasts for next week are 18-20 degrees Celsius). But, before they do, here were this Week’s Small Pleasures. Thanks to Mani at a New Life Wandering for hosting this blog event. It’s great that she and Thistles and Kiwis are regular posters! Continue reading

The Year 2015 in Instagrams (Part 2)

Time for part two of my recap of 2015 using some of the Instagrams I created on my phone throughout the year! I don’t have Instagram photos of all of the places we visited, but going through my Instagram folder has given me an overview of 2015. When I ended off in the last blog post, we had just reached summertime. Along with a lovely trip to the Ostsee (Baltic sea) in summer, we also took a four day trip to visit some friends in Seville. Together the four of us also travelled to Granada, where we visited the beautiful palace of Alhambra. Continue reading

Travel (Eurasia)

Here you can read more about our travels in countries in Europe and Eurasia, listed in alphabetical order. As we live in Germany, our travels in Germany are rather over-represented, so I made a separate page for our travels within Germany which you can find here.

Azores

Garden of José do Canto

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Furnas

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Exploring the calderas of Azores

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Belarus

Minsk

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Canary Islands

Canary Islands – Fuerteventura

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Canary Islands – Lanzarote

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Canary Islands – Gran  Canaria

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Czech Republic

Aviation show in Pardubice

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The nativity scenes of Třebechovice

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Hrad Kunětická hora

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České Švýcarsko / Czech Switzerland

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Chrudim

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Brno, the second largest city in Czech Republic

Czech countryside – June

Biking in the Moravian winelands of Czechia

Brno in the springtime

Easter markets in Brno

Denmark

Easter weekend in Denmark

Finland

Meeting Santa at the North Pole (Finland)

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France and Monaco

Paris in the springtime

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Èze, France

From Cote d’Azur to Gorges du Verdon

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Valensole in Provence

Chamonix

Monaco

Georgia

Hiking in the Svaneti region

Eating our way around Georgia

Italy

Bussana Vecchia

Cinque Terre

La Spezia

Lake Como

Tuscany

Ireland

Western Ireland

Lithuania

Vilnius, Lithuania

The Netherlands

Utrecht

Waddenzee/ The Wadden Sea

 

Slovenia

Slovenia – Photo Diary

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Switzerland

A village in the mountains

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Les Diablerets, Switzerland

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Lucerne

Raclette and fondue

 

Europe road trips

Roadtripping from Czech Republic to Slovenia and Croatia

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Summer roadtrip from Germany to France

Souvenirs

Croatian souvenirs

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Spanish souvenirs

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