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Poland (2020): Short vacation on the Baltic Sea!
Planning and departure Due to the Corona, there wasn’t much to do with vacation in 2020. Fortunately, we had traveled to South Africa in February and had a big vacation this year, but nothing came of it with Egypt / North Sudan in July. So we thought: Why not just go for a little tent trip to the Baltic Sea? Not to the German Baltic Sea, but to the Polish part, because it is cheaper there. Only a few months beforehand there was also a huge 4-person tent on offer at the Aldi (which we also got hold of, although there was only 1 piece per discounter), which gave us…
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Book Review: “Herz aus Stern”
Since I have written small game and other product reviews in forums or on the pages of various online stores, I now felt like writing a detailed review for a book. It is the book “Herz aus Stern” by Nino Kerl, which was published on 14.02.2020. Just because I don’t see it as a perfect work nor as a complete flop, but quite controversial in its qualities, I want to report about it. I myself am a big fan of many animes, mangas and various RPGs and other game series. Like the author, I am a big fan of e.g. the Final Fantasy games or I also read many mangas…
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The Cat Vacation in Greiz
During our trips to Peru, Japan or South Africa, our cats Iva and Yuri also had a kind of vacation … they were always with my mother in Greiz during this time and thus also made a small change of location. Iva was always the biggest problem child in this situation. While Yuri is calm when you take him anywhere (be it in a basket or a backpack), Iva is always quite panicked. She always struggles to get into the transport medium and during the transport, she sets new records how often she can empty herself into the basket or backpack. We also tried to give her a sedative, but…
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Our little Whitsun-Hike to Belvedere
On June 1st we wanted to take a little hike thanks to the nice weather. Therefore, we have again prepared Bentos with onigiris (rice balls filled with chicken, wasabi and cheese), red bell peppers, cucumbers, and octopus sausages. The hardest part of the way was to climb up to Belvedere Palace at the beginning. We left shortly before 11 o’clock and arrived exactly at 12. Here, we looked for a nice bench in the park behind the castle and ate our Bentos. After lunch, we went back along a dirt road leading towards “Taubacher Mühle”. Shortly before arriving at the village we turned left towards the bike path that we…
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Bicycle tour: Feininger-Radweg
On May 21st (also Father’s Day), we decided to go on a bike tour. This day was particularly worth going outside because both the days before and the weather forecast afterward showed that it would otherwise only be raining or cloudy. We chose the Feininger cycle path, which is described below. We knew the beginning of the route to Mellingen, as Nathalie uses to go running there quite often and sometimes accompanied her on my bike. The way behind Oettern was a little more confusing. Here, we slightly lost our way. When we finally found our way back to the Feininger bike path behind Buchfart, the most difficult part of…
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Towel Day Challenge
Of course, you don’t want to talk about work … but since this is a “nerdy” event and even Iva is involved, I would like to talk about it briefly. Every year on May 25th the Towel Day is organized, which is about pointing out how important it is to always have a towel with you. The network from my work used this opportunity to continue to refer to the topic of “pre-registration”, which could have prevented problems with the answer “42”. For this purpose, a challenge was announced on Twitter, in which I then took part with a photo of Iva (because I did not want to show myself…
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Yuri the Destroyer
We are already used to our cats breaking something here and there. To date, Iva has not completely given up biting small holes in various items of clothing. Nevertheless, we were always quite sure that the cats stay away from the electrical cables – at least we have a lot of devices in our apartment (notebooks, Playstation, TV, etc.) and the cats never went to the cables of the devices. This should change on the extended May 1st weekend when Yuri suddenly felt like not only biting the membrane of my headset, but also nibbling on the cable of my Asus Zenbook power supply. Even after sticking the cable, the…
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Eierkuchen!
Yes, I say Eierkuchen! Not Pancakes, not Crepes – Eierkuchen! (anyway for this english post…) Well, never mind … in any case we wanted to cook something simple again… and then I came up with pancakes. More specifically, pancakes with maple syrup. Since Nathalie likes it less sweet, she added a mushroom sauce (ugh!). And the pancakes are pretty good! We followed the instructions below:https://www.einfachbacken.de/rezepte/pfannkuchen-das-schnelle-grundrezept The pancakes have gotten pretty good and it was exactly 7 pieces. Because the mixture of dough was quite thick, the pancakes themselves did not become very large. But they were quickly cooked in the pan. Instead of mineral water, we used normal water. This…
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First Contact: Iva und Yuri
When we chose the cat Yuri as a playmate for Iva, we were, of course, afraid that the two of them might not understand each other. Nevertheless, it was important to get a second cat, bWhen we chose the cat Yuri as a playmate for Iva, we were naturally afraid that the two might not get along. Nevertheless, it was important to get a second cat, because Iva was just doing nonsense in the apartment (clothes gnawed, things scratched, etc.). After we picked up Yuri from Reichenbach in the Vogtland region over my home town of Greiz, we first had the new cat examined in the apartment while Iva was…
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Final Fantasy VII Remake “Lifestream”
Final Fantasy VII Remake was one of the much anticipated games for 2020. Of course we bought it and played it through immediately. Now we play the game on hard and are hunting for achievements. I would like to present a small live stream of mine that shows one of the best spots from the whole game and for which many fans have been waiting for how it was implemented. These are the last scenes from Chapter 9, in which Aerith sees in her new dress, Cloud dances and is dressed again and then goes to Don Corneo’s bridal show. Have fun watching!
Reisen, Katzen und Essen… nicht zwangsläufig in dieser Reihenfolge.
