Oktoberfest (or Wisn' as it is called...)

Time is flying by and I just noticed that it's been 2 weeks since I wrote last time. I try to update this blog at least each weekend but the thing is that not so much happened last weekend. Beside that I fixed some stuff at home, spent half a day with Monica and Raul, watched the movie "Sex and the city", packed and left for a business trip on Sunday late afternoon.
Then I was gone for almost the whole week and on Friday evening I flew for Oktoberfest to Munich.
Alex and Hans picked me up with Hans' rented Mercedes. My God! Monster! I think it was the new S-klass (have to confirm that though) - there was so much space on the back seat that I could almost stretch my whole body and easily sleep. The car almost could make coffee ;-)
Anyway, we met with Sandra and her friend Susi (in whose apartment Alex and I stayed the whole weekend), Hans' friend Björn was there as well. We chatted for a while, had some beers and wine and went to bed.
On Saturday, first we returned this monster car, got some food and then had breakfast in quite a big group. Then Sandra, Hans and Susi put on their traditional Bayerish outfits and we got ready for Okt.fest (which over there is actually called Wisn' or Wissen?). The place is like a fair with lots of food, beers, roller coasters, and other rides, etc. There were quite many people but it wasn't soooo crowded.




We were lucky and managed to get a table in one place. Ordered 1 liter beers (and radler which is like alsterwasser in Hamburg = beer+sprite). Having good time and enjoying the atmosphere.
Here a traditional hat:


And some beers:


But since this table was booked from 15.00 we had to go out to a beer garden which would be OK if it were a bit warmer....so after another beer we tried to find some free table indoors - forget it!
So the evening finished up in a typical Bayern restaurant with some good food and ...."interesting" bil. For a kind of apfelschorle, they charged us 7euro!!! Separate for juice and water! WHAT?!

On Sunday we had breakfast and then went to English Garden for a walk. And a giant brezel. Mums!!!


Now back to HH. And the new week is ahead. With my dad's visit here, and going to Romania on Thu evening. Till the next time!

And the pictures from our bachelorette party

As I promised there would be some pictures from our picnic on Sunday. We surprised Agnieszka at home, gave her a little present and then went by S-bahn to Rissen. We found a beautiful spot at a small lake. We had lunch over there, with 2 bottles of wine. And Melody's peanutbutter cake in a form of.....tja...well, something which belongs to guys ;-)
After the lunch we biked further to "wild" animal park where we said hi to wild pigs, deers, some birds, etc. It was a really nice and relaxing day and Agnieszka seemed to be happy.

The happy trio (Handan, Monica and Sandra) waiting for Agnieszka in front of the house.


Agnieszka and a deer:



And the happy bunch:

Weddings, bachelor (-ette) parties...

Last weekend I went with Alex to his cousin's wedding in Aachen (kloster) and wedding party in Vaals in Holland. As it seems to be a rule we had a fantastic weather! The ceremony was both in German and Romanian, also mixture of protestant and ortodox styles. I don't have so many pictures but on the attached one you can see Paula and Thorsten.



The first night we spent at Paula's & Thorten's place in Aachen. The second night we got to know that we would stay at Alex's aunt's place in Eupen (Belgium). Fine but we had to wait until everybody left and said goodbye and so on in order to drive home. So it took a while.... Totally tired and after driving around Germany-Holland-Belgium in the middle of the night (or early morning) we got home and collapsed in the beds (well I did it).
Then in the morning (ok it was 12.30 but it felt like early morning) the rest of the family came to the house and crashed in the living room where we were sleeping on a matrace in the middle of the room. Everybody was walking around and talking loudly and harding noticing we were sleeping there :-) It felt like Kusturica's movie. I swear. I just got a laughter attack when Alex started playing some Balkan kind of music from his mobile phone.
Anyway, it was fun and nice to meet Alex family.

This weekend is a weekend of bachelor party for Dennis and bachelorette for Agnieszka. The guys are still partying and they had a really full and advanced agenda.
We will go with the girls for a picnic somewhere in the nature tomorrow. So some pictures will follow. Hope wetter.de is right about the weather forecast. Cause for today they said sun and no rain. And guess what....???

Nothing really....

It's been a while since I wrote last time. Sorry!! But nothing really happened... Well last weekend Alex and Filip came to HH. It was nice! Well apart from weather on Saturday. It was pour-raining the whole day and around +13. Summer...
We went out on Friday and met with some friends in Schanze.
Then on Saturday we met with most of the international bunch and we had dinner at Bok (Asian food, yummi!).
During the day the guys did some shopping (can you believe - I almost got nothing!).
Then on Sunday Alex got very eager to iron his shirts, and my for that matter. The day before he brought the ironing board from the cellar (Thomas left it for him) and the picture was some model (?) in bikini.
The thing was that as soon as he started ironing, this bikini started to disappear due to the heat.
Great! ;-)
Both Filip and Alex (and Thomas as well) think that this is a perfect motivation for guys to iron. You bet! Even some of my shirts got ironed. My God! Guys are so simple... ;-)

Tomorrow I'm flying to Köln, Alex will pick me up and we will go to the Belgian side to Alex' aunt's place. On Saturday there is a wedding of his cousin - in Holland. In a castle! Cool!
I'll write more after the weekend.
Have a good one!

Short vacations

I went to visit Alex close to Stuttgart more than a week ago. I went on Friday night and stayed until Monday morning. I had big plans of travelling around Schwarzwald but we weren't so close to it, and all the highways around Stuttgart seemed to be under construction. So instead we visited Stuggart (picture below - you can see some International Art-Bear Exhibition), which is much smaller than Hamburg and not so exciting but still OK.


After visiting the city we drove a bit around and found a really nice spot with grape plantation.


The day after we visited a "kloster" (it is monastery in Engl, right?), which is under UNESCO protection, and later on we went to see a barock castle in Ludwigsburg.
Monastery was cool; the castle little bit too much (as baroc style usually is).








Then on Monday I went to Göteborg. It was a nice, relaxing week. Too bad "la familja" was working. But we spent time together in the evenings. I also met Leif and Jenny with little Oumar. On Tuesday we went to see Miss Li and Moneybrother concerts. M-brother didn't seem so happy and willing to perform, which is a pity. The weather was also a typical GBG-weather. Fredrik and Tinna joined us, and we had dinner in a Turkish restaurant. Nice!


Then on Friday we had "kräftskiva" at Leif's place. My God!!! Yummi!!!! We ate so much crayfish and shrimps!! Had wine and snaps. It was sooooo delicious! Tack Leif!



On Saturday the whole familja went to the coast. First we had lunch close to Kungsbacka (kill me - but I don't remember the name! :-/) It was so nice to be with all of them. And the smallest one - Theo loves olives! Check out the picture! (Aparently he also loves sardines or sardelles - fantastic, huh?).





We also went to swim in the sea. Well...it was Tania and Dan who jumped from the cliffs. The water was cold. I'm a "chicken".



Now I'm back to Hamburg. A new week has started. Have a good one!

New place

Wow! today I can say that the new apartment starts to remind a real place to live and function in. The move took few days; packing and preparing, then Alex, Handan and I moved most of the stuff. Then the whole multi-culti gang helped on the 22nd July.
Then there was a short break when we went to Magda's and Sebastian's wedding. It was beautiful and the party was great! Thanks guys! On top of that we had a wonderful weather so the whole party we were out on the terrace. When I get some pictures you can be sure they will appear here.

(as promised here are some pics):

From the Church:


And the couple at the wedding reception:




I also got some pictures from Megi, one from the wedding, one from karaoke night:



Last Friday I returned the keys to the old place, this weekend we went to IKEA and bought some new lamps and other stuff which was missing in the new flat. Otherwise the weekend was good. We went out with one Mexican colleague on Friday - back home at 4 AM. Then on Saturday we had some beers with two friends - Hans and Sandra (I took care of their rabbit and cat when they were away on vacations 2 weeks ago). Today Alex and I fixed some more stuff in the flat and then he left to Stuttgart.

Here are some pics from the new apartment:

Living room



Bedroom


Guestroom (so everybody who will visit can have her/his room!!)


Kitchen


Alex who was fixing the connection for washing machine


More pictures later on.
Tomorrow a new week is starting. On Friday I'll go to Stuttgart to see a little bit of Schwarzwald and then next Monday - to Göteborg for 1 week!! Yuppi!!!

Packing and moving weekend...

Amazing!! I somehow got some free internet connection, at least I can use google and update you what has been happening here.
So it has started - the moving out project. Wow...two days of packing and moving stuff. Alex arrived on Fri evening. By that time Handan helped me with packing kitchen stuff and we were really efficient! On Saturday I continued packing the boxes and Alex was moving them to the other apartment. Then Handan and I were unpacking some stuff. It went quite smoothly with the 3 of us. Then in the evening we went to Gröninger - a beer cellar where they brew their own beer. Yummi! We were celebrated my birthday with some friends. Nice!!!
On Sunday Alex and I moved the rest of the stuff before the final move on Tuesday (the heavy stuff: closets, bed, soffa, washing machine etc). Then he left back to Stuttgart and I cleaned the apartment, windows etc. Again with Handan's help - it went to fast!!
This week will be short since I'm going to Poland on Thu evening. Magda's wedding!! Well we'll probably arrive there around 2 AM so I hope to sleep in as long as possible to be "fresh" for the wedding.
And I saw that the weather will be sunny and around +30 degrees. Yuppi!!!! I can have my summer dress on!!! :-D
Well, right now it is +14, like in fall!!!
Have a good start of the week!