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Little Kay Bojesen monkey (courtesy of Copenhagen) at long last you are mine. Pics to follow shortly...

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Some vintage linen goodies that arrived last week. German Ebay, one of the top 10 things I'm going to miss when we bid 'auf wiedersehen' to this place. Now to decide what to do with them. Keep them as bedsheets or enlist the help of this lovely lass (and her equally lovely lady lump) and whip up some cushions? Or bloomers? Or both?! Any ideas? Anyone? Bueller?

Off to Copenhagen on Thursday with mum. Just a little bit excited...

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Spielplatz with friends/neighbours. I could count the number of times I've taken the kids to the playground here (that wasn't attached to a biergarten!) on one and a half hands. Back home in Manly, a trip to the playground was a once or even twice a day excursion. Not here, for reasons which I don't really want to go into on a blog. However, if you're lucky like we were yesterday, you'll run into some friendly faces and the kidlets come home tired, sandy but oh so happy.

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Ps Speaking of crazy hair, check out that bed-head up there. Besides conditioning and combing it every 2 two days, does anyone know have any tips on how to tame that wild beast?

Weekend.

From beers in the sun at our local biergarten to Elke's first fairy party. Just one of the three birthday parties the kidlets had on today. 

Our little girl. Happiest schlepping around with drink and/or food a-plenty and always the last man standing sitting at the party table.

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Heart Barcelona.

Barcelona. How do we love thee? Let me count the ways: We love Miro, Gaudi, Picasso, churros con chocolate, tapas, Rioja wine, the shopping, very late nights, your gorgeous Catalonian people, your beautiful language, your amazing Autumn weather. The list goes on (and on and on).

We'd return in a heartbeat.

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Ps I wish we'd snapped a few pics of all the amazing food consumed on our trip but according to Dave, pulling out a chunky DSLR in a restaurant/bar/cafe is a big, fat touristy no no. Lucky he didn't see me sneak in that last photo!

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We have some good news and some bad news.

Bad: Our Indian summer has finally come to a close and today autumn is well and truly in full swing.

Good: Nonni arrives in a few hours. We can't wait!

Ave a good weekend.

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Oktoberfest...

...the sequel. Decked out in tracht and kicking back on the ferris wheel. Dave lasted less than two hours there yesterday before declaring he'd had enough and was taking Elke home. For the next hour, Ola and I tried to squeeze in as many rides as we possibly could before following suit and heading home. In all honesty, one trip to the Wies'n a year is more than enough. Or is that a lifetime? 

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ps Happy 4 little Mads xx