A trip out of the city

When you live in a big city, days, weeks, even months can go by without leaving it. It seems like a little world on its own. But when you do the step out of it you ask yourself after a while why you didn't do this a lot earlier.

We have been to the Blue Mountains on the weekend and it was really beautiful. The blue dust, which the trees seem to 'breathe' out lies like a cloud over these mountainous area. We were hiking between the big Eucalytus trees, stones and waterfalls breathed in the fresh air into our lungs.

Thank you so much for all your great comments on my last pentax posts. I filled in a new roll of film and hope I can show you soon some more pictures of our Blue Mountains trip.

I wish you all good start into the new month.

I hope March will be a bit quieter than February

Maria

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Lavendar

Hi everyone,

I hope you are having a lovely weekend....

#1 We got up early on Saturday morning and went to the Eveleigh Farmers Market in Redfern - i

#2 The markets are next to the heritage listed Eveleigh Railyards

#3/4 it is a wonderful market with over 80 stalls offering amazing vegetables, fruits, breads, flowers and all sorts of other things. It is also a great mixture of people, who go there an it is just fun to stroll around, try some goats cheese here or drink some fresh juice there. Just wonderful to start a Saturday.

#5 I got those wonderful flowers and I look at them right now. They are so exotic to me. Just like many other plants I see and smell here in Australia

#6 After we we came back we had a nice coffee and were reading in our newspapers. I got a German one of a friend the other day, which I was very excited about to read

#7/8/9 Later I took the Lavendar I got at the markets and made little bundles, which I put up to let them dry. I a couple of weeks I will get the dry blossoms and start a little project with them :^)

It was a very humid week this week here in Sydney and on Tuesday I decided to get my hair cut shorts again. I always used to have short hair but I started to let it grow since mid 2009. Now they are short again and I am quiet happy with it. I have the feeling I am just a short-hair girl :^)

Hope you are all well

Maria

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A belated post with the pictures I took on Saturday.

How good it felt...sleeping in, reading the paper in bed, having a late breakfast together, being out for a nice Spring walk, sharing one of those great cinnamon buns and getting back to the paper while sitting in the grass....what a nice Saturday it was....and in the end even without light but candles as the electricity went down in the whole street for a couple of hours...

Saturday was the first day I was wearing sandals. It felt so good....and a bit weird to see the temperatures dropping in Europe...If I could I would send some sun over....

I passed again such beautiful tiles on my walk...and I thought it would be so great to sew a quilt with those colours and a similar pattern...I am thinking about it....

I hope you all had a great start into the week...

Maria

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Goodbye Hamburg

My last days in Hamburg went by so quickly...and it was great to spend some good quality time with people who became so close to me over the last years living there...I am so lucky that I met them and it was not easy to say good-bye...

A few images of some "lasts" during the last days there...

#1 A good last coffee break between the crazy packing

#2 I enjoyed my last blueberry Franzbrötchen for probably quiet a while

#3/4 went the last time to the farmers market and bought veggies for our last dinner...but had the first cherries

#5 took the last shade image in our kitchen

#6 had the last view out into the garden...

Right now I am sitting between all these piles of things thinking how I should manage to just bring 23kg with me...and also thinking about all the new things which will happen soon...

It is all really exciting...

but nevertheless,

Hamburg I will miss you! It's been wonderful.

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A summer weekend

Oh it was a warm weekend here in Hamburg. It reached 35° but felt actually a lot hotter..

We were having friends over for a little birthday & farewell-party and just had a great summer night with good food, drinks, music and most of all lovely people. I realized this morning that I didn't took one picture of this night which is a shame...but than again it was just better to spend the time with our guests chatting and laughing...

Today we were cleaning and resting indoors as it was just too hot to do anything outdoors (I wonder how I should survive an Australian summer ; )

We made a really nice, fresh dinner which could be my favourite Summer dinner...

#1 A quick lunch on Saturday between preparing the party

#2 Sun on my feet

#3 Yellow birthday flowers of my friend and flatmate

#4 Resting

#5 I really like this plant and I think it flowers even look like a butterfly

#6/7 We got fresh squash and broad beans at the farmers market yesterday morning

#8 I love podding the beans.

#9 A squash, broad bean salad with rocket on a lemon dressing with mint

#10/11 we had them with potatoes from my parents place, such a fresh Summer dinner.

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We enjoy the days together, the sun, Summer, the last days in Hamburg...

#1 The morning sun in my room last Friday back home

#2 A dramatic sky on Tuesday....when we were on our way to...

#3/4/5 café Johanna to have a lovely breakfast....and to start the day...

#6 walked through the city and visited this great store

#7 biked to the great Wohlers Park to read there...

#8/9 park view

#10 I love this sun-shadow play on the ground of the park

Oh and we saw Broken Social Scene last night...they were so good....if you ever have the chance to see them live...

you should ; )

I am looking forward to eating the first blueberries soon : ) This is what I love about Summer...

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Changes

Sometimes you say a sentence or even just a single word and it is enough that

many things in your life are changing.

The little world you are living in suddenly shows all sorts of new ways.

Ways if people had asked me about them years ago I might have shaked my head ....

But in the last couple of weeks I had moments like this.

One of them has something to do with this little box you see in the picture :)

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There have been many long-distance-flights in the last couple of years;

welcome hugs & sad farewell moments, long emails and letters, chats,

7 wonderful months living here in Hamburg together but also months of being 13.000km away from each other...

I will miss my friends, my family and Hamburg a lot. a lot.

But it feels so good that something will change now..

I quit my job and booked my flight this week and I will move to Sydney in the end of July.

I can't wait to start a life with the man I love.

To read next to each other in cafés, cook dinners & share our beloved Friday evenings together, talk till late in the night... just care for each other...

I thought I share those wonderful news with you.

Maria

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The last week

I am back since a couple of days and feel a bit like someone beamed me back into my usual everyday life like nothing has happened...It is surprising when you see that the wheel of work does not change at all. I mean I know I have has just been away for three weeks but I still think it is weird when you realize how things you do, see, enjoy could change you within such a time...

I carry so many precious moments and memories in me that I think I will live for a while in my little bubble, still breathing the fresh sea breeze in my mind, going for a swim before breakfast, feeling the sun on my skin, just being around the person I love..

Thank you all so much for your nice comments on my posts during my time there. I was also so great to get comments from a few people from Australia who read my blog and I didn't know about yet...

Here are a few pictures from my last week.

Enjoying the wonderful light....

Catching up with lovely friends and spending the day at the beach

Making curry for a curry night

Picking up the teapots after their last burning, They turned out so great..I love them both

Having my first hot cross bun, which you eat for Easter there

Spending time

Eating the best fruits for breakfast....

Waiting...

//Maria

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