Paul's first visit to Denmark (with five days in Copenhagen which included: Meeting some of my friends and their children, dogs and in one case pet rabbit; meeting most of my family; one family wedding; a couple of trips to Vesterhavet (the North Sea); and of course lots of food).
Karen's first experience of the flu in Switzerland (which actually wasn't much different from British flus. I have realised, though, that I speak much better German with a sore throat and a head full of snot than when mucus free. Just in case anyone was wondering...).
Hence, I'm actually looking forward to starting a new working week tomorrow which will hopefully see me back at my desk every day, all day Mon-Fri and ready to kick ass in my German class Tuesday evening.
Due to the anonymous nature of this blog (one pretends to be a little bit royal, bar running around top-less in front of French photographers), I don't have many pictures available to share from the visit to Denmark. However, I had a little Dogme-moment by Vesterhavet the other day:
I'd also like to show you how we've decorated our postbox down in the foyer:
During the week we receive a landfill of paper rubbish from Aldi, Coop, Migros (all three supermarkets here in Switzerland); furniture shop 1, 2 and 3; Get Your Mobility Scooter From Here, etc. which we don't want. We were starting to get rather fed up with all this crap (for want of a better word) when we began to notice a variation of stickers saying 'Bitte Keine Werbung' (please no marketing (leaflets, magazines, flyers...)) adorning more and more of the neighbouring postboxes. As we don't want to be different (and really don't want more post than strictly necessary), Paul found out where to get these stickers from. Out of the seven different ones he bought, we chose this silver one with striking red writing in CAPITAL LETTERS. We both think it's stylish and authoritative at the same time. It says: 'Don't mess with us' (metaphorically) as well as 'Bitte Keine Werbung' (literally).
I look forward to telling you about my German class in the next post, particularly which grammatical points we discussed. Unless something more interesting (one doubts that's likely) happens that is...
Lots of love,
Karen x
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