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Pizza Weekends

This has become a regular sight these days. I have no idea why I haven’t started making my own pizza dough earlier, it’s so ridiculously easy. It all started with an innocent, but insanely delicious shaved asparagus pizza. It was so ridiculously easy to make, well except for shaving the asparagus, I facepalmed myself that [...]

The Secret of Great Iced Coffee

The heat wave in Berlin continues. We’ve been having temperatures around 37-38 degrees Celcius for the last couple of days. As long as we’re not walking around much and steer clear of public transport (usually > 40 degrees on subway and city train) it’s bearable.

We spent most of Sunday out on the balcony, regularly dipping [...]

Our Weekend

Was so relaxed, incredibly hot, and full of cherries. J and Mari took the train out to her parents’ on Friday, I followed on Saturday and Sunday, taking care of Mr. T in between, poor guy can’t be left alone and needs some feeding.

Anyway, was so nice to just hang out, take some photos, and [...]

Potsdam Sanssouci

The Rough Guide for Berlin lists Potsdam Sanssouci as the number one place to go in Berlin. The irony is that it’s not in Berlin. It’s not far, just outside of Berlin, in Potsdam, but still. I find that pretty hilarious. But the Rough Guide doesn’t lie, Sanssouci, and Potsdam in general, is a nice [...]

Polaroid ID-UV

A while ago Chinako sent me two packs of Polaroid’s rather weird ID-UV film. I’ll forever be grateful. I had the film lying around in my fridge for quite a while until last weekend, when I finally decided to give it a go. Timing was perfect. There was supposed to be sun, and we were [...]

Annie’s Donuts

Before we went to Portland, the only donuts I’ve had were from Dunkin Donuts. I think it’s safe to say that I’ll never have those again. Forever have I been spoiled by the donut awesomeness that is Annie’s Donuts.

Not only is it the most awesomest donut shop you could imagine, being old school and all, [...]

Back From San Francisco

As you’ve probably realised by now, at least judging from increased activity on my Flickr and Twitter streams, we’re back from our trip to San Francisco and Portland.

We obviously had a blast, met good people, and made new friends, all with unusually excellent weather. Mari has a lot of stories to tell for her first [...]

The Playground Diaries Part IV

Today the playgrounds were empty, and I don’t blame anyone for that. Apparently we skipped autumn and went directly to winter. I just bought a winter jacket last weekend, and today was the first day I had to wear it. I’ll tell you how I feel about that: It sucks! I’m not a big fan [...]

I Made Banana Bread

We must alert the church elders!

No seriously, I don’t know why I put it off for so long. Yesterday I found some dark-brown bananas in the fridge and immediately thought of one thing: banana bread! Now I can hear you say that bananas that went brown in the fridge aren’t really the kind of banana [...]

The Playground Diaries Part III

Putting aside the fact that today would’ve been the 60th anniversary of the country I used to live in, it was also another Wednesday I’d spend with Mari, well most of it anyway.

Luckily the weather gods must’ve figured it out and turned the day into rather warm if slightly cloudy one. Thank you. Perfect day [...]

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