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03 Februar 2011

a day with flowers, letters & cupcakes

I wanted flowers in the house, so I picked some from the roadside on my way home.

The afternoon I spent with the children at Happy Home and they wrote colorful answers to their pen pals. Their letters are really sweet and they even try to teach them some words in Setswana!

The day ended with cupcakes and a little bit of home - podcasts are king!

03 Oktober 2010

some more days around the Cape

Even though we had a full week in Cape Town, it seemed like time was flying too fast.
There is just so much to do there!

We managed to visit Stellenbosch and some of the nearby vinyards,

went down to another end of the world at Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope,

spent a lovely day at the beautiful Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens,

and finally went up Table Mountain with what felt like a million other people and all the way down almost by ourselves on a very long, steep downhill hike.

After all these activities there was just enough time left to enjoy the fantastic views for a last time before heading back to Gabs.

It was a fabulous week (despite both of us having an ugly cold for a couple of days) and makes me wish I could live there for a while...

A big thank you to our friend Jan for hosting us and showing us around!

22 September 2010

In Full Bloom

These days our garden is full of beautiful flowers! Some of them have been planted a while ago, some we put into the pots on the terrace.


I love the big red ones and the wonderful rose.


But the most spectacular is the blooming wall of our neighbour - the colors are just unbelievable and the smell is so good that I have to stop whenever I walk past it.

Dear spring (or is it summer already?), thanks for being such a colorful time of the year!

09 April 2010

orchid superstars

in Monteverde I visited the local orchid garden and was impressed by the great variety of orchids collected from the cloudforest area nearby.


generally, the orchids here were a lot smaller than the ones I had seen before but their scents were incredible....


imagine beautiful tiny flowers smelling of vanilla, mint, pepper, lemon and much more!