My name is Emma, I'm from a small town in New Zealand and have now found myself living in the USA.
Last Christmas I was stumped on what to get Nick. I was in New Zealand and had to travel to start my life in the USA with 2 suitcases (which weren’t allowed to weigh more than 23kg a piece). The idea struck me – what about a bungee jump? I could get a voucher so … More Switzerland – Interlaken, Thun & Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
It’s been a few weeks since we visited the marvelous city of London, England. Nick has been hassling me to write this for a couple of weeks now, but let’s just say, I had writer’s block already. Let me begin with a famous poem, about this wonderful city: Upon Westminster Bridge – William Wordsworth Sept. … More England – London
We’ve been meaning to go to Monkey Mountain for awhile now – ever since we heard about being able to feed monkeys that are roaming free in their enclosure. Finally we managed to find a day where we could make the trip there and back, and not on a normal weekend day. I didn’t want … More France – A day trip to Monkey Mountain and Strasbourg
In the last month we have been taking things easy as Nick has been taking a math course which has severely limited our ability to go away. Not to bother though, in August we are headed to London, England and Interlaken, Switzerland. In September we are headed to Italy, for our first anniversary, to see … More Belgium & Germany – Supermarket trip, Formula 1 and Saarbrücken
As promised, today’s blog update is about last weekend when my friend, Laura, visited us from London. Laura and I met when we worked at Ernst & Young Perth, Australia. It turned out we were both from Christchurch, New Zealand. Friendship ensued, we went our separate ways and technically now we are on the same … More Luxembourg & Germany – Laura visits for the weekend
It’s been a few weeks since I posted. That’s mainly because we haven’t really been up to all that much exciting, just settling into living a ‘normal’ life in a foreign country. Here are some photos of Ramstein & Miesenbach villages from when I have been walking into town to meet new friends for gelato … More Germany – settling in walks, eating out and flea markets
NB: The majority of the photos taken in the blog were shot by my amazing husband, Nick. We decided about a week before we went, that we would go for a trip to the Netherlands, as an early birthday celebration. I had been looking up USO & RTT tours on base, and one was due … More The Netherlands – Amsterdam & Keukenhof
Sunday morning was a glorious day to wake up to. When we lifted the rolladens, it was a stunning day outside – clear blue skies and not a cloud in sight. It sprang to my mind that it would be an excellent day to visit the botanical gardens and see some beautiful spring flowers. Problem … More Germany – Gartenschau and an unexpected medieval festival
Nick worked night shift for a couple nights, so we woke up late on Saturday. I had decided to do the same as him sleep wise since I’m not working. Naturally, when we woke up we decided we’d go to France to do our grocery shop. Our Garmin told us it would take an … More France – off to do our groceries
Today we leave the USA for our big adventure to Germany. We celebrated this by way of an ‘American’ meal – pizza, fries and some soda in our hotel room by Baltimore Airport. We’ve been here two nights already as it was cheaper and easier for us to get flights out to Baltimore with Delta … More Good bye USA!
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