Germany is all about Cafe culture. Just sitting around drinking coffee and eating cake… there could be worse things then that! Today I’ll join the locals and will sit around and have coffee and cake…
Also, on a kind of related note, I have put together a mini guide to Darmstadt, check it out here.
Happy Sunday everyone 🙂
My commute to work is shorter now, which is nice on the one hand, but on the other hand I don’t really have time to read or do anything interesting…
This week I noticed how cool all the power cables on my commuting route actually are. In the UK the power is on the train tracks, and in winter the train schedules always get affected if the tracks get too cold or too wet, here the power is up, so I am hoping there will be less drama in winter….
How do you get to work? Do you have to commute too?
Some time ago I was obsessed with trying to take pictures that could be put together as a panoramic photo. Some of them turned out ok (what do you think?)! I then gave up on this idea….. but this week I was thinking I should play around with this a bit more.
So, my plan for this weekend is to find the perfect panoramic view in the area. The question is: will I be able to find it?…. I’ll let you know…
Do you have plans for your weekend too?
Only joking!!! no need to be afraid its only an old castle….
Only 5 km from Darmstadt there’s the world famous Burg Frankenstein, that may have inspired Mary Shelley’s book. I, of course, read the book in my teens when I was going through a pseudo goth phase, and was fascinated by all things dark and scary… Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, like the original Bram Stoker’s Dracula, were however really disappointing! they were not scary at all, and actually really boring to read.
Anyway, the castle it’s an interesting day trip if you’re in the area. The other cool thing is that the city of Darmstadt holds their civil service ceremonies in the castle’s small chapel – this is definitely a cool place to get married…
It makes me happy to look back at these pictures.
Happy week everyone!!!!
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Part II – The Kitchen table
The kitchen table turned out quite good…We are almost completely happy with the result! So, this one should count as successful…
Just returned from a very short trip to Lovely London and Cool Brighton.
The things I miss about London and Brighton:
1. My lovely, lovely, lovely friends. There’s nothing better than a hug from a friend. Thank you for all the hugs. 🙂
2. The incredible choice of good food. I had Lunch at a Vietnamese place in Camden, it was amazing!
3. The posh crisps.
4. The sea.
5. Brighton.
6. London….
Better start planing the next visit!
I like looking up! Do you like looking up too?
Welcome to the complete history of my DIY failures! I will start by saying that these failures actually turned out to be successes in the end, but let’s just say that both the process and the outcome are not exactly what we planned initially! Yes, WE! My boyfriend/flatmate/partner in crime, Dr. E, should also be held accountable for the successes and failures!
Our new rented flat is more or less a bad taste nightmare, I mean not bad taste kitschy cool, I mean bad taste nightmare. It has this crazy textured plaster that was popular for 5 secs in the 80’s, it has butt ugly doors with yellowish glass, it has beige floor tiles … not to mention the bathroom… For your own health and safety I will spare you the bathroom. Saying all of this, we love it! We have lots of light and space.
Part I – painting tiles
So, the kitchen tiles were originally also beige and had tea pot motives, as I said: bad taste 80’s… to save us some time and money we decided to paint the tiles. I originally wanted to paint them turquoise but Dr. E wanted dark navy blue, we reached an agreement on Marine blue. But, wait! I forgot to tell you that, of course, at the DIY market, they only had paint specifically for tiles in white and beige – these colours were out of the question! So we bought paint that could be used in pretty much any kind of surface, apart from… you guessed it: TILES.
This little fact did not deter us from using this paint on the tiles. Just because the instructions on the tin mentioned every single surface type on the planet apart from tiles does not mean that it can’t be used on tiles – right? Well! Kind of. Everything was going splendidly, until I applied the second layer of paint and one of the paintbrush hairs got stuck to the paint… when I was trying to scrape it off … I realised that the paint was peeling off and it seemed as if I could have peeled all the paint off the whole wall in one go!!!!!
So this is the state of affairs now! The tiles are painted and look great, but if we make the smallest of scratches on the wall…. That will be the end of our lovely marine blue tiled kitchen wall. It has been 3 months now!
Gretchen or Little Grete is the sweetest little bakery in Darmstadt. It’s only open from Thursday to Sunday and serves really nice cakes and warm food made by the experienced hands of Gretchen. The 50’s original decor is beautiful, I wish I could have taken better pictures to show you.
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