It took me a while, but I’ve finally found some time to let you know what Anja and I did on our trip around Australia. Our trip focused on Melbourne, Brisbane and Cairns during May 2010 (28/4/2010 -> 26/5/2010). I’m blogging about our first stop here and will blog more about the others later. Melbourne [...]

About this photo. This is a collection of images I have taken using my iphone and borrowed from the friendly digital world. ‘Before a few’ (top down): ——————- The festival parade representing the beer produces and the like responsible for the event. Thousands upon thousands of stores sell heart shaped gingerbread biscuits for friends, to [...]

Somedays (most) one feels like they are not lucky and nothing exciting and special will happen today. 11/3/2010 was a different day for me. It was lucky from the moment I left the house and my train pulled up as if it was just for me. When I met Anja in the city for lunch, [...]

Something for the travelers out there from the land of Oz.. I found the most common questions to be asked were: “How big is Melbourne and what is the population of Australia?” After being asked these kind of questions like 12 times, I decided to look it up. FYI Munich = ~1.3 Million Syd = [...]

The process of being allowed to pay taxes in Germany is surprising difficult. I was not able to invoice properly until I was given a Steuernummer (tax number). The process involved many calls back and forth between the Finanzamt (tax dept.) and the kind colleagues willing to put up with them. When the letter final [...]

After managing to do the impossible, I’ve decided to document what I learnt and what I had to do in order to live and work in Germany. I have broken down everything into the following areas: – Documents (all the official pieces of paper one might need) – Places (where you can get the pieces [...]

So, after 4 weeks and 8 lessons, what have I learnt? Well, for 1.. You were right. Everyone was right. German is hard! Here are some things I am now trying to learn, recall and use more often. Past tense with gegangen and gearbeit n all those ge words (not so hard, but many variations [...]

Looks like diving in Egypt is the next thing todo. Come the start of Jan, I will be heading off to Egypt for a week including training n diving and a kick ass hotel (if all the bookings work). So.. Any would know any Egyptian? I just know the walk ; P Wishing you all [...]

I’ve now been here 3 months. I’ve managed to make friends, get a job, extend my work contract (soon visa) till end 2010, found a WG and some swing clubs. As a special treat, I’ve also found a lovely Bavarian girl that makes me happy. I thought this post might give you an insight into [...]

(Day 1) Schazlik + crepe + glüwine !! Plenty to see, plenty to eat, here’s some photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/pettetd/Chistkindlmarkt26112009