by Robin | Mar 30, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Europe, Family, Favorite things, Memoir, Personal, Photos, Travel
From the beginning, I considered the opportunity to live abroad for a short while a God-gift… …life circumstance preceding my husband's job offer only underscored that truth. The delights and challenges about which I speculated have all come to...
by Robin | Mar 27, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Advice, Beauty, Encouragement, Europe, friendship, Personal
Inertia Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. Marienplatz, Munich, February 2012. Dinner is served! It's doubtful Newton had in mind...
by Robin | Mar 23, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Europe, Travel, Winter
Angry splotches of purple with irregular, banana-esque edge, my three week-old bruises confirm what I hate to admit: snow skiing ain't my thing. But it's how my husband wanted to celebrate his birthday, so off to the Austrian Alps we went. ...
by Robin | Mar 22, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Travel
The first time I went to Burghausen’s Weekly Open Air Market, it was single digits and my camera froze shortly after arriving; but not before I captured a few of the sights– I’m not sure if it’s an octopus or a squid (I’m thinking the...
by Robin | Mar 19, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Art, Travel
There was no way to know when the decision was made, but we couldn't have chosen a better time to agree to a job change that would take us half-way around the world. First, there was , a phenomenon so significant and an undertaking so grand it has occurred...
by Robin | Mar 4, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Memoir, Personal, Travel
I’m in Austria. I’m in Austria drinking a Franziskaner Weissbier and people-watching on the deck of an Apres-Ski. Vanilla-iced mountains and mounds are dazzling fortress, shielding me from the real world; my real world, anyway. I’m writing a...