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| Bastai Bridge, south of Dresden. October 2012 |
Happy Silvester/New Year from Rostock! We hope you all ate a jelly-filled donut and watched this (don't worry, it goes into English right after the introduction)--as per German tradition. We had the opportunity to watch all the fireworks across Rostock from eighteen floors up which was a perfect end to a really spectacular year.
Without further ado, I present the year in review with links to old blog posts and facebook photo albums.
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January
I finally returned to my beloved London and dragged Paul around on a half marathon walk each day from Kensington to Canary Wharf, Shepherd's Bush to Waterloo.
We also bought our giant map of Germany and put our first four black dots on the places we'd been already.
February
We had a housewarming party where our map was plastered with post-it note suggestions from new friends of where to visit in Germany. The rest of the time we spent saving up a little money for a big trip to...
March
Rome: Day one, Days two and three
Siena: Day four
Florence: Days five and six
Ravenna: Day seven
Venice: Days eight and nine
April
April was another savings month and we mostly puttered around town, working on experiments and a master's degree.
May
Paul's parents, brother, sister, and brother-in-law came to visit us and Germany. We saw Mecklenburg, Pomerania, Berlin, Leipzig, the Black Forest, Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber, Neuschwanstein and the Alps, and Munich. (Whoa) The pictures are not yet edited, but that's an early goal for 2013. Stay tuned.
June
Athens. Holy moly. I loved this trip like a Greek guard loves giant pom pom shoes.
And we took a trip to scope out Denmark.
And I went to my sister's wedding in Utah (see below).
Four countries in four weeks. Boom.
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| Wedding Proof |
July
Paul went to Canada and ate poutine. I stayed at home and ate macaroni and cheese.
August
We went swimming in the Baltic and saw naked people. We also saw the third of the three palaces of Mecklenburg. More black dots for the map!
September
October
Paul's birthday, his schmancy trip to Washington D.C., and our last-minute road trip to his old stomping grounds in Saxony.
November
Well, we may have had a cancelled trip to Paris but that just means that we're moving to Denmark for three years. And, as an additional upside, we took our Paris train tickets and traded them in for a quick trip to see Bremen.
December
We ate our fill of "hot sheep cheese" and corn on the cob at the Weinachtsmarkt during our last German Christmas.
At the end of the year, we counted the dots on our Germany map. On January 1 we had four.
On December 31st? 44
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Here's to our 2012 and the upcoming 2013 where the Hunn invasion will continue in Nordic lands.
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