Dear Friends!
Since our move to the new place, we have not had an internet connection, and have been pretty cut off.... In case you have been wondering why you haven't received any emails from us, it's not because we don't like you anymore! :-) It's purely a technical issue, which we hope to have resolved by the end of the week.
So far we have been incredibly busy with buying furniture, appliances, organizing stuff and trying to feel at home... Carlo has been traveling a bit less and this past weekend we were able to take a little drive to a nearby lake with pretty Bavarian countryside.
It was nice to see green hills instead of concrete and cars. :ß)
Overall we love the neighborhood we moved to, which has a variety of little stores and shops that sell everything you need for daily life. (This includes Fruit stands, shoe stores, dry cleaners, bakery, butcher, numerous restaurants and cafes)
If I was able to find the cable for my camera I would upload a few pics, yet it seems to be quite elusive!
Since I am typing at an internet cafe, I will keep myself short and look forward to sharing some experiences in greater detail once we have internet at home...
Carlo and I are looking forward to a couple visitors from Newport Beach this weekend.
It will be great to see a few familiar faces!
Stay warm and hope you are well, wherever you are!
Best, wishes,
Ines
Monday, 19 March 2007
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
HOME SWEET HOME!!!
Dear Friends,
We have officially moved into our new apartment!! Of course you are dying to see pictures, yet I forgot the cable to my camera...as I am still using the internet access at the hotel... Hang tight, hopefully I will have a chance to post them tonight.
Carlo and I spent a very busy three-day weekend at several furniture stores and building supply stores purchasing many needed supplies and appliances. We have the washer and dryer hooked up and running nonstop. All of our clothes and towels smelled like cardboard! (6 weeks on a ship will do that to you!)
I am in a hurry to meet my friend Ina for lunch...
We have rented a car for the entire week so we could make a few bigger purchases and take care of many little things as well.
All, right, gotta run.
Greetings to all!!!!
Our new address will be emailed to you soon!
Hugs,
Ines
We have officially moved into our new apartment!! Of course you are dying to see pictures, yet I forgot the cable to my camera...as I am still using the internet access at the hotel... Hang tight, hopefully I will have a chance to post them tonight.
Carlo and I spent a very busy three-day weekend at several furniture stores and building supply stores purchasing many needed supplies and appliances. We have the washer and dryer hooked up and running nonstop. All of our clothes and towels smelled like cardboard! (6 weeks on a ship will do that to you!)
I am in a hurry to meet my friend Ina for lunch...
We have rented a car for the entire week so we could make a few bigger purchases and take care of many little things as well.
All, right, gotta run.
Greetings to all!!!!
Our new address will be emailed to you soon!
Hugs,
Ines
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
Today is THE DAY!
Today is the day! In less than two hours we will mee to do the walk through with the owner of the apartment and then we will receive our keys and access to our new apartment!!!
It's been a long wait and we are soooooo excited to finally get things going.
Tomorrow at 8AM (Thursday), the moving company will show up with a crane/lift type apparatus to transport our boxes to the living room window from the outside of the house. Since we are on the 4th/top floor this will save much time. :-)
I will post pictures as soon as I have a chance to return to the hotel and download them onto our laptop.
Hope all is well, many cheerful greetings from a rainy Munich today!
Best,
Ines
It's been a long wait and we are soooooo excited to finally get things going.
Tomorrow at 8AM (Thursday), the moving company will show up with a crane/lift type apparatus to transport our boxes to the living room window from the outside of the house. Since we are on the 4th/top floor this will save much time. :-)
I will post pictures as soon as I have a chance to return to the hotel and download them onto our laptop.
Hope all is well, many cheerful greetings from a rainy Munich today!
Best,
Ines
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
Glorious Ash Wednesday!
Dear Friends!
It was a BEAUTIFUL day today with temps close to 60 degrees! I spend a few hours strolling across the markets of old town Munich. I wandered past the Hofbraeuhaus and discovered many little restaurants and stores.
The markets were filled with people enjoying the warm weather and a beer or two along with a "Rollmops" (A herring on a bun). I don't know where all the people came from, but they all seemed to enjoy the beautiful day as much as I did.
Hope you all had beautiful day wherever you might be.
Enjoy the pics, and maybe they will make you come visit. :-)
Cheers, Ines
Monday, 19 February 2007
A few pics from the neighborhood!
Since I don't have many new pics from the house, I though I would post a few pics from our current neigborhood: As you can see the "Schneegloeckchen" - Snowbells in English- are in full bloom and especially since there is no snow, they provide a little "white" at this time of the year. The other picture was taken near our hotel. There are numerous streets that are lined with beautiful, turn of the century houses. They remind me a bit of a British neighborhood! Last but not least, a picture of our future bedroom. There are two parts to it and this one will be the sleeping side. The opposite side will be mainly our dressing room. :-)
Alright, once the move get's under way, I'm sure I'll have a few, eh... how can I say.. - more entertaining- pics to post.
Stay tuned!!!
Cheers, Ines
Only 10 more days!
10 more days to what you might ask??? Well, it's finally not a distant dream anymore: Our New Apartment!!
It seems time is creeping by at snails speed. Carlo and I can't wait until we finally have keys in hand and the moving truck with our furniture and things outside the new house. Today I ran a few errands in the neighborhood and was able to talk with the "hausmeister" (The super) to clear up an issue of who will paint the kitchen, living room and all other rooms on the first floor. Apparently the previous renter has hired someone to do the job, yet it's not done yet. We hope that everything will go smoothly and we can indeed move into a clean and finished place. Most likely, we will stay at the hotel for a few more days until we will have unpacked and washed a few things... This past Saturday, Carlo and I set out across town to buy a washer and dryer. So we did. Due to both of us suffering from backpain, sciatia at its best, we turned for home shortly after our purchases and spent a quiet evening at home. I think once we are settled our daily routine will improve. Carlo's schedule has been taking him all over Europe and tomorrow he will again fly to Zurich, then to Geneva, and London. He will be home by Friday evening, which will be the end of the long travelling weeks, I hope!
All around us Carneval is in full swing and I hope you will have a fun Fat Tuesday!!!
Cheers, Greetings to all!!!
Ciao, Ines
It seems time is creeping by at snails speed. Carlo and I can't wait until we finally have keys in hand and the moving truck with our furniture and things outside the new house. Today I ran a few errands in the neighborhood and was able to talk with the "hausmeister" (The super) to clear up an issue of who will paint the kitchen, living room and all other rooms on the first floor. Apparently the previous renter has hired someone to do the job, yet it's not done yet. We hope that everything will go smoothly and we can indeed move into a clean and finished place. Most likely, we will stay at the hotel for a few more days until we will have unpacked and washed a few things... This past Saturday, Carlo and I set out across town to buy a washer and dryer. So we did. Due to both of us suffering from backpain, sciatia at its best, we turned for home shortly after our purchases and spent a quiet evening at home. I think once we are settled our daily routine will improve. Carlo's schedule has been taking him all over Europe and tomorrow he will again fly to Zurich, then to Geneva, and London. He will be home by Friday evening, which will be the end of the long travelling weeks, I hope!
All around us Carneval is in full swing and I hope you will have a fun Fat Tuesday!!!
Cheers, Greetings to all!!!
Ciao, Ines
Friday, 16 February 2007
Our new apartment!!!!
Dear friends,
finally, finally a few long awaited snapshots of our new place! It is currently still being used by the previous tenants (re: bottles in kitchen = No, we did not have a housewarming party without you!) Also, the remodeling work is still under way, which explains all the dirt and unfinished walls. :-) It will be a wonderful place for us though once we will move in. Carlo and I are thrilled to have found this place just in the nick of time.
It is a wonderful sunny day in Munich today and I hope you will have an equally glorious day wherever you are.
Without further comments...here are the pics:
Cheers, Ines
Monday, 12 February 2007
Almost there!
Hello dear Friends!
Boy, it's Monday morning and raining again!!! The weather here in Munich is just not cooperating. The sunny days of California seem so surreal! Everything seems more bearable though since we found an apartment! I will go tomorrow and sign the contract, Carlo has already signed it since he will be traveling all week. We are VERY excited. Leaving the hotel will be a glorious moment as it is getting really OLD. Having a real kitchen again and enough space for our clothes will be wonderful–along with the fact that the cleaning service will not wake me twice a week. :-) No really, it'll be nice to use our own washer and having our own sheets and towels.
More details on the apartment .... to come tomorrow.
The weekend was a bit overshadowed because Carlo had another pinched nerve in his back. We were about to leave the house on Saturday when he realized he had trouble walking. We stayed home for the rest of the weekend and I was taking care of him the best I could. Stretching, muscle relaxers, ibuprofen, ice and streching...
If we would have been able to go downtown we might have seen politicians like Vladimir Putin, or several ministers of defense, as many of them came together in Munich for the defense and security forum.
Today, Carlo is back at work and has a daunting week ahead of him: trips to Rome, Frankfurt, Zurich, Geneva. He will be travelling all week. I worry about his back, yet equipped with drugs, ice packs and elastic bands for stretching he could be mistaken for a man with fantasies! If you know what I mean! :-)
Tonight one of my good girlfriends will spend the night here at the hotel, as she has an appointment here in Munich on Tuesday morning. It'll be great to see her and have some company.
My dad will visit on Wednesday and I'm sure we will have a look at our new apartment together.
Again, I will report a bit more tomorrow. :-)
All the best, until tomorrow!!
Cheers,
Ines
Boy, it's Monday morning and raining again!!! The weather here in Munich is just not cooperating. The sunny days of California seem so surreal! Everything seems more bearable though since we found an apartment! I will go tomorrow and sign the contract, Carlo has already signed it since he will be traveling all week. We are VERY excited. Leaving the hotel will be a glorious moment as it is getting really OLD. Having a real kitchen again and enough space for our clothes will be wonderful–along with the fact that the cleaning service will not wake me twice a week. :-) No really, it'll be nice to use our own washer and having our own sheets and towels.
More details on the apartment .... to come tomorrow.
The weekend was a bit overshadowed because Carlo had another pinched nerve in his back. We were about to leave the house on Saturday when he realized he had trouble walking. We stayed home for the rest of the weekend and I was taking care of him the best I could. Stretching, muscle relaxers, ibuprofen, ice and streching...
If we would have been able to go downtown we might have seen politicians like Vladimir Putin, or several ministers of defense, as many of them came together in Munich for the defense and security forum.
Today, Carlo is back at work and has a daunting week ahead of him: trips to Rome, Frankfurt, Zurich, Geneva. He will be travelling all week. I worry about his back, yet equipped with drugs, ice packs and elastic bands for stretching he could be mistaken for a man with fantasies! If you know what I mean! :-)
Tonight one of my good girlfriends will spend the night here at the hotel, as she has an appointment here in Munich on Tuesday morning. It'll be great to see her and have some company.
My dad will visit on Wednesday and I'm sure we will have a look at our new apartment together.
Again, I will report a bit more tomorrow. :-)
All the best, until tomorrow!!
Cheers,
Ines
Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Snow again! Home found?
After the past few days of seasonably warm weather, the snow is back! It has been a constant up and down with the temps here.
The biggest news though is a potential new home for us. On Sunday we visited an apartment that we just loved! It is still under construction as it was completely remodeled, but will be finished by the end of the month. It has two stories and enough space for us not to go crazy. :-)
We will see it again tomorrow and will hopefully sign a contract very soon.
Keep your figers crossed!!! (We are sooo ready to settle down and move out of the hotel!)
Cheers, Ines
The biggest news though is a potential new home for us. On Sunday we visited an apartment that we just loved! It is still under construction as it was completely remodeled, but will be finished by the end of the month. It has two stories and enough space for us not to go crazy. :-)
We will see it again tomorrow and will hopefully sign a contract very soon.
Keep your figers crossed!!! (We are sooo ready to settle down and move out of the hotel!)
Cheers, Ines
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Brrr...this ain't California anymore!
I finally figured out how to post pictures! :-)
Now I will upload a few from our latest big snow... It is very winterlike, yet most of the snow has already disappeared.
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