Never-ending autumn and our hiking adventure.

Hai to all of you!!  I hope this blog post works all right...my laptop is broken so I started writing this on my phone. This was very small on my screen, and I could not see the spaces in between words.  Now I managed to borrow someone's netbook, which is also very small and cute and is doing the job well.  Let's see, what shall come shall come!  Today I will do a little bit of the rest of the end of autumn all the way to the winter that we find ourselves in right now.  It is winter isn't it?

- 24. of October some more bright colours from autumn.

- 27th of October, nice silhouettes in the Britzer Garten.

- 27th of October, a bed of spiky leaves in the Britzer Garten.

- 21st of November, weekend trip to Goslar in the Harzgebirge to hike.  Getting out of the city is always good for the soul.  And with "hex" weekend train ticket deals it is totally affordable for more than one person.

- We found a nice path after climbing up the side of what I would call a cliff.

- Accidentally falling from here would be a wild and "twig-gy" experience.

- More trees!  I like these trees!

- It is very important to have a map of where you are...even if you end up not being in the place that you think you are. 

- 22nd of November, the morning of our second hiking day we opened the curtains and looked out of our guesthouse window...and it was SNOWING!!  After a large breakfast the ground quickly transformed from greys and browns...

- To black and white...

- Just like the sky went from grey...

- To blue!

- This is a beautiful view of Goslar as the sky was clearing up from the clouds!

- We ended up walking in a winter wonderland!

- I realised quickly, after hiking in the snow, how important it is to wear appropriate footwear.  Hiking in the snow in wellies was definitely an experience that I don't want to repeat...my poor toes were very cold!

- Here, on our way back into Goslar town to grab some Gluehwein to warm us up...and to catch our train back to Berlin.

Thanks for looking at all the pictures of our little adventure to the "Hexenwald"!  I definitely recommend going if you have the chance!  Hope you are all having a nice winter...maybe it's actually cold and crisp where you are.  It is weirdly warm in Berlin, which makes it not feel very wintery at all.  Nevertheless I wish you all a super duper, very merry Christmas.  Enjoy it and see you soon!
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My golden obsession.

Hello and good day!  This post will mostly contain more or less more shapes and shades of yellow that my autumn has brought me.  I know the last post was about yellow but I don't care.  I'm loving yellow right now and according to the "Colour Wheel Pro", yellow is "associated with joy, happiness, intellect and energy".  See...JOY!  HAPPINESS!  ENERGY!!!  I feel the need to post as many yellow posts, in order to save up some yellow feeling, that I can then whip out again on the grey days that await.  Autumn has already shown enough of its grey side this past week, here's to hoping yellow beats grey.

- My beloved cycle ride up to Tempelhof on a sunny Sunday morning showing off all of its sparkle.  (no instagram filter, by the way)

- Early morning, on the way to work shot through the train window.  Greens, yellows and oranges.

- Same day.  Different time.  Different side of the train on my way home from work.  Greens, yellows and oranges.

- Some slightly yellowy lime greens walking along the canal today.

-  Sparrows bathing in the puddles left by the days of grey weather and rain.

- A blackbird having a puddle bath!  Today was the day of puddle baths!

- Squinting up into the sun, hoping that it will keep shining to supply me with the Vitamin D that I need to survive the winter.

Thanks for reading, take care and keep your eyes opened to really soak up the colours that are happening now.  I'm sounding so buddhist right now oh yeah.  Really enjoy the NOW!

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A whole lot of yellow.

Welcome, Autumn!  You are here once again and bring with you warm sunshine, blue skies and lots of yellows all around.  Bright yellow, brown yellow, red yellow, green yellow, dark yellow.  Lots and lots of yellows.  Yellow, yellow, YELLOW!  Here are some pictures of my autumn.

- Photo of the Refugee Welcome Picnic at Tempelhof.  The weather was superb and you could feel all the love on the field.

- We went on a 3 hour walk through Grunewald after I finished school one day.  It was magical.  I even jumped into Teufelssee for one last time in 2015.  I froze my nuggets off.

- Is this an oil beetle?  There were so many of these in Grunewald.

- A red dragonfly at the Ökowerk in the Grunewald.  Look, you can't even see its wings, that's how delicate they are.

- Here's a shot taken in the S-bahn with my colourful yellow findings from the Grunewald!  TOTALLY YELLOW!  Oh I LOVE this photo.  These leaves look like they've been dipped into the sun!

- This one is a photo I took at the bridge looking over Klub der Visionäre.  I love a good canoe!

- Last but not least is a photo that I probably shouldn't have taken, seeing as I was riding my bike down a hill at the time.  I couldn't help myself though, there's yellows involved and even though it's blurry, I like it.

There it is.  The first autumn post.

I hope it continues as yellow as it began!

Thanks for reading.

..love..

The summer holiday isn't over yet...IN MY HEAD!!!

Hola!!
Hallo!!
Hello!!

The summer!  Oh the summer!  My summer holiday is over!  Monday I started work again and today was my first day back at college.  And so it goes on, let the 5 day week commence!  So this is a summer post.  The end of summer post.  A catching up summer post.  Just generally all things summer!  I'll have a bit of everything in here, a bit of home and plants and a bit of holiday and sun.  Might be feeling slightly nostalgic for all the wonderful moments, but now is definitely the time to share all of the happenings before they disappear into my short term memory brain.

- Let's begin with a "before the summer holiday" full moon, back in July.  (Berlin)

- Now skip forward a couple of weeks...a bit of log throwing at the lake.  (Berlin)

- The softest grass that I lay on this summer, in the Britzer Garten in Neukölln.  (Berlin)

- A beautiful assortment of colours, in the Britzer Garten.  (Berlin)

- Garden shed at my grandmother's ready for a gathering.  (Neumarkt i.d. Opf)

- Marie Curie (female scientist and first woman to win a Nobel Prize) rose in my grandmother's garden.  Oh, and there's a bee too!  (Neumarkt i.d. Opf)

- The next stop in my summer holiday was Barcelona, Spain.  These next photos are all taken there.  I'll start with a picture of the pigeon tree.  There were a hell of a lot of pigeons in that tree.

- Here are some more, I guess you can't really see them against the background but let me tell you, there were a lot of pigeons!

- Some delicious looking lung, liver and leg specimens at La Boqueria market.  How does one even cook lung...actually...maybe I don't want to know.

- Evening walk on the promenade.  Palm trees and cool tower things.

- FRIED OCTOPUS from La Boqueria market!  I saw someone eating them two days before so we went back on a mission to find them, and that we did.

- The obligatory beach photo!  I didn't wash my hair for 5 days straight after being in the sea every day...what happened to my hair was a mixture between sculpture and rock carving!  Swimming in the sea is definitely one of the best swimming experiences out there and must be enjoyed as fully as is possible.  Is that someone doing a belly flop?  Oh I think it is!

- Here's a photo of a photo of Picasso at the Picasso Museum.  Fun fact: Picasso's dog's name was Lump!

- I actually LOLLED when I saw this postcard in the shop.  Oh and check out that great sea horizon behind it!

- Park Güell, the park that was designed by Gaudi.  Mosaic heaven!

- Washerwoman.  It looks like her dress was made of loads of tiny skulls.  But they were just rocks bro!

- Another shot taken in Park Güell.  Gotta get that sun/blue sky/palm trees combo as often as you can when you're around it aye?  Oh and don't forget the amazing rock-itecture (see what I did there?!)

- After Park Güell we kept walking up the hill and went to Túro de la Rovira/Bunkers del Carmel.  An old bunker on top of a hill from which you can see all of Barcelona and beyond.

 And with that photo I end the photo "montage" of our trip to Barcelona.  The wonderful city which is the heart of Catalonia, Spain.  I hope you have all had an enjoyable summer wherever and whatever you have been doing.
Thank you for reading and see ya next time.
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