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Benifallet, Spain

Easter with friends from many places

Mara & Raf
April 17, 2022
#FamilyFriends, #OutOfOffice

Easter had a Spanish-Polish-Ukrainian-French-British-German-South African flavour for us this year. We were in Spain and spent the Easter weekend with a group of twelve people, seven cats, one dog and two birds. Our good friends Anna and Remi, whom we have visited a few times before, also had some…

Hemel Hempstead

High ropes and slippery ice

Mara & Raf
April 3, 2022
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We celebrated a few birthdays in the family with some fun activities last week. Here are the pictures….

Stuttgart Germany

First visit to Germany after more than 2 years

Mara
March 6, 2022
#FamilyFriends, #OutOfOffice

After more than two years of not having been back to Germany, I managed to sneak in a little detour to Stuttgart on the way back from Poland for a lovely weekend with the parents, my sister Priska and her family, and my brother David. The last time we…

Hemel Hempstead

This, that, and the other

Mara & Raf
February 20, 2022
#Covid19, #FamilyFriends

Over time, this blog has also become a place for us to compile pictures of small events and random moments which don’t warrant a post of their own. Here’s another little collection of pictures from life during recent weeks: We had some friends, family and neighbours around, went to…

Hemel Hempstead

Another Christmas and New Year’s stuck in the UK

Mara & Raf
January 1, 2022
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Our bags were pretty much packed and we were ready to go on a jet plane to Germany for our first trip abroad for almost two years. And then everything changed again. The omicron variant took off in England, travel regulations changed, and it became clear that we’d need…

Cape Town

Welcome little Asher

Mara & Raf
November 21, 2021
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Every time another niece or nephew is added to our wider family, we become aware of the wonderful miracle of new life. Raf’s sister Tabitha gave birth to Asher at home a few days ago, and we are again so amazed and excited….

Hemel Hempstead

Rural running and other aspects of life in the last few months

Mara
November 1, 2021
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The main theme of this blog is supposed to be our nomadic life, with us reporting from all over the world. Obviously things have been rather quiet in that regard for a while now. Much of life at the moment may be a bit more mundane for us than…

Cape Town

We’ll miss you, Cindy

Mara & Raf
August 11, 2021
#Covid19, #FamilyFriends

Raf became close friends with Cindy while they were both at Cornerstone College in Cape Town. And because Cindy and her partner Bettina later also lived in London for a good number of years we were able to spend many special moments all together. But in addition to Cape…

Offener Brief an Freunde, die sich zu den Querdenkern und Masken/Impfverweigerern zählen

Mara
August 10, 2021
#Covid19, #FamilyFriends

Liebe Freunde, ich habe eine ganze Weile darüber nachgedacht, ob ich schreiben soll, denn ich vermute, dass das was ich jetzt schreibe unter Umständen hart oder konfrontativ rüberkommen kann. Die Alternative wäre, dass ich mich einfach mal etwas zurückziehe von manchen Leuten, innerlich, aber auch was den aktiven Kontakt…

Hemel Hempstead

Our new home at the canal

Mara & Raf
July 15, 2021
#FamilyFriends, #Home

No words needed. We reckon you’ll probably be more interested in the pictures….