The month started with a bit of a re-organising of the flat – including the clean-out of the cellar. Saturday afternoon we headed over to a flat Manja had found, which had an awesome terrace making up almost half of the space of the flat. We just figured we would go and have a look and get a feel for the area and see what we like or dislike about flats. The flat turned out to be in an older building, but nicely renovated. Unfortunately the layout wasn’t that great, but it was still interesting to see what sort of options we would have. After viewing the flat we wandered around the Wannsee a bit and grabbed some lunch at the cafe I was at with Klaus on our first Motorbike ride around. Unfortunately the place was closed for winter (made sense – it was mostly outdoors!) but they had a nice “Alpenhütte” style setup where we found some food. We took the train back around sunset and had a relaxed evening.
On Sunday we headed out for Brunch for Ivos birthday, before finishing up the cellar cleanup in the afternoon.
On Thursday I headed out to see Captain Marvel with Colleagues – I really enjoyed it!
Friday we were off to Frankfurt to visit what we are lovingly calling the “Magic Triangle” – Doris in Wiesbaden, Jana (Manjas Aunt) in Bad Kreuznach and Alex (Manjas cousin) in Remagen who all live with their families within an hours drive of each other. We were also visiting to pickup a suitcase Doris brought over for me.
After arriving at Doris’ place we went to the local greek restaurant for some delicious lunch – they make the best lamb shank – and baklava for desert. After all that food we needed that Ouzo on the house! Bellies full, we drove over to visit my grandfathers grave, which I actually hadn’t been to before. In the early evening it was already time to head over to Jana and Huberts place in Bad Kreuznach where we stayed for dinner and spent the evening chatting before going to sleep.
After a lovely breakfast at Janas place we headed over to Remagen to meet up with Alex and his family. We arrived around lunchtime and they had prepared a lovely Spagetti Bolognese! In the afternoon we were joined by Stefan and a few other friends for a casual night of games, food and drinks. Vodka and Wine specifically, in terms of drinking. We played black stories as the bottles emptied. A slight bit tipsy we dropped into a wonderfully comfortable couch-bed.
The next morning we awoke timely. Alex made some home-made croissants which didn’t hold their shapes very well, but were delicious none-the-less. After a short hula hooping competition with the kids, we already had to be back on our way to the airport. We were hoping to arrive back in Berlin a touch earlier to try out an e-scooter! In Köln airport, I realised that the suitcase was heavy – but we had booked it into the right weight category 😀
When we arrived back in Berlin the weather was truly miserable and we got an email from the organiser of the scooter telling us he was sick and that the weather was not appropriate for testing the scooter anyway. Being just a touch hungover from the previous night this was probably for the best, so we just headed home and recovered.
On Wednesday night we caught up with Robert who had just returned from at trip to Australia. He was kind enough to bring along some of my jackets – the ones I left hanging in the cupboard when I left my parents place! We met at a local asian place, which had great recommendations for being authentic. It didn’t look like anything fancy, but the food really was awesome! We chatted for a few hours, talking about Roberts trip and his plans to maybe move to Australia someday.
On Saturday we had another squash game, Manja still beating me! In the evening we went on a train ride to Tina and Stefans place, where we had a dinner and guitar jamming sing-along evening. It was fantastic fun, helped along with a few glasses of Amaretto! We caught a late train home and dropped into bed well after 2 am.
Sunday we got up early so that I could have a short chat to Silas for his birthday! The day was spent doing some technical maintenance on the blogs and attempting to move them to a new server.
During the week my folks arrived, and we caught up with them on saturday, where we were heading over to Manjas mums place for her birthday. We met up at a train station near where they were staying called Königs Wusterhausen. Mum and dad do skip-rope photos which they send back to their fitness club, so we used the opportunity too! The meeting of the families went really well, we met up for Coffee and Cake at Manjas Mothers flat before heading over to the local greek restaurant for a garlic-heavy and delicious dinner. We dropped my parents off to their local train-station on the way back home late that night, we’d be seeing more of them in the coming weeks!
The week was then spent cleaning the flat. Mostly because my parents were coming to visit, but also because a detailed spring-clean was overdue. The cleaning was only interrupted by a games night at work on Thursday night 🙂
Saturday was spent with my Parents, who luckily did the work of documenting the day already 🙂
On Sunday we headed over to Stefan and Stefanies place for a Brunch meeting of Manjas old colleagues and families. It’s an awesome little group and we had great fun chatting the afternoon away.
That already brings us to the end of March… There’s so much happening, no wonder I didn’t have time to keep the blog up to date!
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