As you may know, we’re a small family of three – my husband, my 8-year-old son and myself. Although, strictly speaking, we are four if you include my gorgeous west highland terrier Charlie! As a family, we’ve travelled to many places in Germany over the past few years. In this blog, I’d like to show […]
In my series of blogs about relationships and friendships between Brits and Germans, I’m also looking at twin city connections. You might already know that my home town is Düsseldorf, which is the reason why I was curious to know if Düsseldorf was twinned with a town in the UK. My research brought me […]
Are you a food or music lover? Maybe relaxing in a spa after spending the day doing a favourite outdoor activity is more your thing. Whatever it is, you should definitely check out my event recommendations in Germany. In my view, it’s a great idea to combine a city break or holiday with some events […]
In November 2018, I interviewed Tracy about her family holiday to the Black Forest. I was really interested to hear about her experience of travelling to Germany with her husband and two daughters, who were 7 and 9 at the time. In love with Germany When I asked Tracy what had made her decide […]
In December 2015, we decided to spend a week in Bavaria, in the small village of Lenggries. We’d been there several years earlier for a walking holiday and loved it so much that we decided to go again – this time with our son. We ‘sold’ him a skiing holiday, which turned out not to […]
This year, I’d like to create a series of blogs about the many relationships and friendships that have developed between the Germans and Brits since the end of World War Two. I’m certainly not going to be mentioning the War 😊 or the political turmoil around Brexit. Instead, I’ll be looking closer at the human […]
We are now six days into 2019, and most of us are already back at work. As the clock struck midnight, many of us started the new year with promises of eating healthier, losing weight, exercising more, changing jobs or reducing waste, to name but a few. I certainly think it’s a good thing to […]
As the year comes to an end, we all start to think about how we’re going to celebrate seeing in the new year. British and German traditions are very similar in so many ways, but some are a little bit different… So similar and yet so different When we arrived in the UK in 2004, […]
In my last blog, I spoke about the winter holiday we took to Juist, on Germany’s North Sea coast. In this blog, I’d like to share more of that wonderful winter holiday to this very special island – also known as Töwerland, meaning wonderland. On two feet or two wheels? During our Juist holiday, […]
We, as a family, love visiting the small islands on Germany’s North Sea coast. We particularly enjoy the fresh, salty air, the wide, sandy beaches and wonderful dunes. In our view, they are beautiful all-year-round. I should know because I’ve been there in January, March, May, June, July, August, September and December! One of our […]
