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The challenge of buying fuel in France
Thursday evening, we lost an hour, trying to find a “pompe a essence” where we could either pay cash or with a credit card or foreign bank card. We didn’t succeed and in the end had to ask someone else to pay for us with their “carte bleue” in exchange for € 40. Today, we…
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Our Vivaro bus is getting more and more beautiful
[Deutsche Übersetzung unten] Finally! After 10 days, our new bus with floor, room for storage and bed is ready for the journey. In between, my stuff from Kassel had to be stored and we spent many wonderful moments with the family and our grandchildren. It has been a real marathon to get it all done.…
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Moving house
[Deutsche Übersetzung unten] We just spent several hours in Kassel. Unfortunately, too little time to see all the lovely people I have come to know in the 11 years that I lived here. It was unfortunate that we did not have more time. The program for the next days is pretty full. Two days after…
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Living the minimalist life style 😉
Yesterday, we sold and removed the kitchen. This morning, the sleeping couch went to a new home. A woman came by for the table, but when she saw it, she didn’t want it. It’s a massive light oak, round table of 120 cm. You can add a middle section making an oval with a length…
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Will Triodos Bank end our banking blues?
When we first looked for a bank to open an account, we discovered that Triodos Bank has branched out to the UK. They are originally Dutch and are one of the few genuinely ethical banks in existence. We were thrilled to find them and wanted to apply for an account there. However, at that time,…
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Moving house, round two
When we got back from my Mum’s, after moving house, round one, the flue got hold of me. At first, it wasn’t so bad and on Thursday, I felt more or less normal again. However, that was short lived. On Wednesday, I felt miserable and it became clear that I was ill and that the…
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You cannot always have your cake and eat it
It is true. In the time since Christophe and I met, we have gradually developed this idea to become digital nomads. And now, it is almost time. In two weeks, we will leave the apartment and start our adventure. We are both really excited and looking forward to it, but there is a down side.…
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Moving house, round one & visit to Seppie
Last thursday, we loaded the first batch of my stuff into the car, with the intend to go to my Mum on Friday, to store my stuff there. However, Christophe, who had been fighting the flue, was really sick on Friday, and in no shape to go anywhere. He had picked up the virus in…
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Banking blues part 4: PLEASE don’t call us, we will (not) call you
It’s been six weeks since we completed the application for a business bank account with HSBC. When we were there, in London, our contact person made copies of our proofs of address and our passports. Afterwards, he wrote us an email saying all was well, our application was complete, and we just had to wait…
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We bought ourselves an Opel Vivaro 🙂
Today, we became the proud new owners of an Opel Vivaro. We went to the car dealer last Wednesday to see the car and try it out. Everything about it was to our liking, except for two things. Passenger seats First, it has a two-seater in front for two passengers. We would have prefered a…
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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
This is a famous quote from the Dalai Lama. Yesterday, we met a man who treated us with so much unexpected kindness. It was a seemingly small thing, but it brightened our day. We were out running some errants in Fürstenfeldbruck and running a bit late already, when I remembered I wanted to buy black…
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Making and breaking a reputation
I started building websites in 1996. At that time, websites were hand coded in HTML, version 3.2, if memory serves me right. Later versions sported tables and frames, but in the beginning, it was very straight forward and possibilities were limited. You could add an image, but had to be careful it wasn’t too “heavy”, for…
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Spring fasting 2018, day 7
We were up before the sun today, and thus could enjoy the sunrise during our yoga. Note that our apartment is on the first floor of a house that is located on a street with just the pavement to separate it from the asphalt, and a semi-industrial building on the other side of the road,…
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Spring fasting 2018, day 6
Having 3 “meals” per day, be they small, sort of makes us return to our normal daily routine. That is, as far as we have a routine. We have our morning habits consisting of yoga, meditation and breakfast. But after that, there’s no real routine. We go with the flow. But not before breakfast. Nowadays,…
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Spring fasting 2018, day 5
Your place of birth decides more or less if you live a life of plenty or if you are hungry and thirsty all the time. We are fortunate and grateful to have been born where we are (Western Europe), because we have never been hungry in our lives. Nor thirsty. Not really. Compare that to…