Sunflower on my roof

Looking out of Christians window one morning last week, we saw... a SUNFLOWER growing in the cullis. Maybe it grew out of a crump of sunflower bread... as we sometimes shake the table cloth out of the window. I will do that more often now ;)

Berlin summer

Berlin im Sommer - Berlin ist grün. Berlin hat viiiel Platz. Berlin lebt in den Beach Bars an der Spree. Berlin liebt den Sommer.Ein verstecktes Café in Prenzlberg...
Chillen am "Space Beach" an der East Side Gallery

"Capital Beach" am Kanzleramt
Sommergewitter

Berlin - The wall

East side gallery in midday sun



All together, there are only about 2 km left of "The Berlin Wall" and still it makes me feel uneasy walking by. A double row of cobblestone follows the former wall through the city... kind of a memorial.
It's hard to imagine how people must have felt in the divided city - but Berlin for sure is breathing freedom now.

Addendum: A foggy day in Osnabrueck

On a weekend in February, I visited my little brother...
... and we waited for some fog and rain to go on a nice walk into "Teutoburger Forest", a place full of history.

@Christian: let's see if I make it to Wolfsburg until February ;)

Raspberries and nettles

Does anyone of you, my dear blog readers, have an idea why raspberry bushes and huge colonies of nettles always grow next to mountain bike trails? I mean... I know, I could ride my bike on a road, but that is not what you buy a mountain bike for, right?!?
We have been out on a nice tour Thursday evening with 6 people and it was really a lot of fun, but half of the downhill (a single trail meaning that ONE bike exactly fits the trail), I either got scratch by raspberry bushes or by nettles... not that it actually matters since my legs are already covered with bruises (climbing) and scars (hot tea)... but I think, I would be less tense if a meadow or maybe even sunflowers would cover the trail to my left and right. Don't you think?!

German psycho

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Last weekend: Augartenfest

Tanja & David... siblings. Could you tell??!
Boris and Lena... after a few drinks.
Lena & me after a few more drinks... ;)

We found Robin Hood

Oh yes, we did!!! :)
Last Wednesday during my second stay in Nottingham, UK, we finally found Robin Hood in front of Nottingham Castle and, honestly... I was a bit disenchanted. I mean... LOOK AT HIM! Did you expect Robin Hood to look like THAT???My colleague Herbert who is a lot of fun to sing Russian songs with, as I found out ;)

Still we didn't figure out where Sherwood Forest is, but we got a hint so next time we will find it... and I will bring my tights!

Neulich in der Stiftskirche...

... in Lindau am Bodensee - ein Brett an das jeder seine Nachrichten an Gott pinnen darf. Darunter die folgende Notiz:

Hallo erst mal!
Ich bin der Beni!!!
Ich hätt da mal a Frage:

1. Warum sehe ich so gut aus?
2. Warum bin ich trotzdem noch Single?
3. Und warum ist Italien Fußballweltmeister geworden?

Amen!

Soviel zu den Problemen unserer Jugend... ;)