just another personal blog of a bisdak
Time for the Christmas market all over Germany again and in our town, ice skating is the highlight. I will check when my girl is more or less stop growing so I can buy her her own ice skating shoes. For now, I find it useless to buy skates when it will not fit next…
For the first time at age 40, I have a tattoo. It will be my last. It was done by an expert ex-monk who uses fresh metal which he attached in a long pole before he start poking around my arm. There was some pain. But nothing compared to natural childbirth who did not have…
Though small, there is always something going on in Meißen even on Sunday where most shops are closed. But I wonder if one gets bored also with living in a place that is filled with actions. Or maybe our little remote town is just growing on me. I don’t know. I like the idea of…
Looks like slight rain cannot stop us and thousands of people from going to Legoland in Billund because after checking the weather early in the morning, I went to book it online for 3 people. Day ticket cost about 55€ each even for kids and Mann was interested to go fishing instead. Opening time starts…
There are 20,000+ castles, palaces and ruins in Germany. And one of them is Castle Hartenfels in Torgau which has been around since 1500. It used to be a one rectangle building only but it was attacked, rebuilt, burned, rebuilt, modernized until what we see nowadays. Not all castles/palaces are maintained in Germany because that…
Search for “castle” in google map and Sachsen or Saxony, the region where I am in, does not disappoint. So when we had spring-like weather in February (Sunny @ 18C), we went out on a day trip. First stop is Karl’s Erdbeerhof which we love by the way. Parking is free and there is a…
We were watching a netflix magic show of Justin Willman and one of the episodes is moving a shopping cart behind the car if the shopping cart was not returned properly. And there are a lot of people who just leave the cart after using it as if expecting someone to come and pick it…
We are still deep in snow in our place but instead of fishing, Mann found a new hobby: fly tying. It is the art of artistically making your own artificial fishing flies manually. So he is warm and comfy at home instead of being out there freezing his butt off. Piano teacher commented that my…
