Category: Life in Germany

The year of the roaring tiger (according to the Chinese Lunar calendar) is here and guess what, we didn’t have a white Christmas last year but ironically we had a white Chinese New Year instead. It snowed the whole night throughout new year’s eve until the first day of Chinese New Year with subzero temperatures [...]

Germany was cast in a deep winter spell for the past few weeks. The weather, aside from the snow, was pretty dreary, grey, gloomy and dismally boring. It is sort of like living in a black-and-white film. How I wish I could just stay in bed underneath my snug comforter and wake up when the [...]

I woke up to a gloomy Saturday morning with this on my breakfast table.It put a smile on my face and Mr. Nikolaus said Hi .

It is Saint Nicholas DayWeihnachtsmarkt in Speyer

It’s that time of the year again. This Sunday’s the first of Advent. Bf’s mom has already started Christmas-cleaning the house from top to bottom earlier this week, hauling boxes of Christmas decorations from the cellar to christmas-fy the house. She also went to the florist to get some firs to make Christmas wreaths [...]