Visitors from USA

Beginning of September we had visitors from Portland in Munich: Patricia, Rick & little Violet (3 years & a quarter). They stayed in our bedroom at the Mittermayrstreet 31 in Schwabing while we made ourselves comfortable on the couch.

Little Violet gave us the direction. She came to Europe to find the princess and according to little American children there are en mas princess in Europe. Therefore every palace, castle, and even old city centers are potential places to spot the princess. And of course we found her sometimes – every couple who got married was prince and princess and little Violet went up to them and talked to them.

Michaela had vacation for the whole 10 day trip so she went to Munich, Regensburg, Prague and Interlaken in Switzerland with our American friends. While they were here they met Michaela´s brother Stephan and kids (Laura & David), Michaela´s brother Markus & her dad and my parents. Thus we were never bored and had a fantastic time – unfortunately it was far too short!

In Love

Michaela and I – we are still in love with Munich. We really have a crush for that city.

Even if there are a lot of prejudices against Munich – especially from people who never lived there – and yes, we were one of them. Ignore them all!

Munich is charming and appealing so it is easy to fall in love with this city. Cosmopolitan, charming, authentic, modern, green, special, traditional, exciting, unique, and adorable.

There are thousands of wonderful spots and we have seen only a small portion of it. One of those spots is our running track from our door step to the Bayern Park to the Luitpolt Park to the wonderful and still breathtaking architecture of the Olympia Park and back. Or the beautiful coffee houses in Schwabing, at the Gärtnerplatz and around the university (Black Bean coffee house and Pain de Quotidien are our favorites). Our favorite bicycle route goes from Schwabing to the English Garden, along the river Isar to the camping spot at Thalkirchen – a green oasis which runs through Munich.

And then there are the restaurants in Schwabing – we were fascinated from their variety from the beginning. So far we have only been to Thai, Mexican, and Greek and Atopian restaurant, however never we were disappointed.

Well, and then there is he cultural aspect of the city. One has the full choices – so you can see the Wildlife Photography of the Year at Nymphenburg Castle or you can go and see our favorite circus ´Cirque du Soleil`. And in case you don´t get a ticket for U2 who played at the Olympic Stadium, you go to the Olympic Park anyway and you can listen to the concert sitting on a hill just outside the Stadium with many other people. Sensational!

Indeed we feel newly in love and that is why it is hard to say good-bye to this fantastic city.

Therefore one thing is clear: Our new city Berlin will have a hard time to convince us…

Little Odyssey

After our tour around the world one needed a good portion of stamina and flexibility.

While I was searching for the last 6 months I read countless job postings – applied for several and talked with dozens of headhunters and advisors. And so we had to think about moving to ­different locations wherever the position was.

Here a list of all the locations we had to think about in order to give you an idea: Auckland (New Zealand), Luxembourg, The Hague, Gibraltar, Leipzig, Frankfurt, London, Genf, Dublin, Amsterdam, Neckarulm, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Berlin and Munich. And the winner is “ ---------- Berlin!”

House Hunting

As we know now that Berlin is our new hometown, we started our house hunting – maybe this will be soon over as we found 3 favorites apartments - we saw them and loved them. Now we want to have your opinion. Like our house hunting in Ireland - you might remember - you can hand in your vote next to the blog at the upper right corner of the German version of the blog.

So take a look at the photos and descriptions of the apartments in the German version of the blog and hand in your vote for your favorite one!

Sorry to our non German speaking friends! The details for the flats are only available in German. But you can probably figure out some points anyway. So please give us your vote as well!