A Summary of our Trip

After a few days of trying to get myself back to the normal routine; I think I have overcome the evil jet-lag and back to the life of entertaining the little princess at home.

I have had a wonderful month, it was exhausting yet interesting. I spent the first week attending many concerts at Rosie's school; the concerts were great and it was a delight to watch all the school children playing their instruments. Rosie played her solo performance and she also accompanied many other string players.

After London, both of us went to Hamburg as Rosie was attending a 10 days summer course. She was the youngest participant but I think it was a very good opportunity for her to learn from those big students from university.

We went to Berlin straight after the summer course. Rosie was a fantastic tour guide and took me to  many MUST-VISIT tourist spots. The buildings are magnificent and the scenery is just gorgeous. We spent two and a half days in Berlin before we joined a tour to Dresden, a place which was almost destroyed by the air raids during WWII.

You might think that we should be home after the Germany trip, right? Well, we seized a chance to visit Lian before catching our flight home.

Let's see the places that we had visited:

Beware!!! 

These are NO postcards but all taken by our not-so-little photographer in the making. I'm sure you know whom I'm talking about. Tee hee!

Stade. 

A little town that we stayed in while Rosie was having her summer course.

It is very small and basically consists of a little town centre with all the shops. 

A very lovely place though.

We took the bus from Hamburg to Berlin, found our service apartment without any difficulty, and then went to the city centre where all the big tourist attractions are.

Brandenburg Gate 

    

Berlin Cathedral

   
Victory Monument - from afar and close up

East Berlin is also interesting and we visited the Wall in the East Side Gallery.

Many beautiful graffiti drawings there. 

Well, after two days in Berlin, we had basically covered all the main tourist attractions so Rosie decided to go to the zoo!!!!

And our favourite animal was the...

POLAR BEAR 

We saw a panda but it was sleeping and it had one of its big paws covering the most part of his handsome face : ((

Dresden was the most beautiful place we visited.

Everywhere looked like a postcard. Even though most of it was destroyed in WWII, they had rebuilt the buildings really well and it really was a great sight to visit.

We are back!

I had a very exciting month, travelling to London to meet Rosie, and then going off Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden. Everybody is exhausted at the moment from jet-lag. So we will be back shortly to tell you more about our trip with some pictures as well!

In the meantime, here was our homecoming welcome!

Our routine is back to normal ... playing with the princess and tending to her every need.

Oh, and here is a beautiful fleece collar with two shelties embroidered on it with Eva's name. It is made in Denmark and is a gift from our friend, Lian. Eva found it weird that I was taking pictures of her from behind and kept turning her face back towards me, as if asking to pose for the camera. In the end, she gave up and hid her head inside the curtains!

Sorry we are not leaving comments at the moment but we do visit everyone...give us a few days to get back in the rhythm.

Wishful Weekend

A little birdy told me today that this weekend will be a very special one.

While pondering on the swing, I realised that it had already been one month since my Mom had gone to the UK. Surely, she must be back by now! And I hope this weekend, she'll bring my sister back with her! I shall go wait by the gate now...wouldn't want to miss them!