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Just taking a little break from the blog backdating by posting a couple of more recent pics and to shamelessly boast about an upcoming trip to New York in 5 weeks time. Without kids. I managed to snaffle up some super cheap flights and convince one of my dearest friends to join me for the week. Now if only we could track down some tickets for The Book of Mormon for less then 200 bucks a pop then our trip would almost be complete.

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Return to Berlin - July 2012.
The Radiohead concert that wasn't. Radiohead had planned to play a couple of gigs over this weekend but due to a fatal accident in Toronto a month earlier, in which a stage collapsed, their European leg of the tour was postponed. Since we had already forked out for train fares and accommodation AND organised for our babysitter to join us we decided to go anyway. It's Berlin. We will never have our fill of the place! We then headed back 2 months later for a concert that was more than worth all the kerfuffle.

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What better way to kick off a blogging comeback than with a bit of French frolicking! Some good friends of ours made the (smart!) move from Munich to Paris at the end of last year so in a bid to use up all of the possible school holidays before August, we decided to pay them a visit. Stopping off overnight at the enchanting Strasbourg on our way. Unfortunately, we couldn't be bothered lugging the heavy DSLR around the whole time so we only managed to take a handful of photos. But we saw this as the perfect opportunity to dust off the old Pentax and use up a couple of rolls of film. Watch this space.

I will be adding a slew of photos over the coming weeks to update the old blog on all the happenings over the last 6 months - to fill in the rather large gap left on this space since our Hamburg holiday. I'm hoping this will help kickstart the old blogging mojo since we only have 5 months left of our Munich adventure and we should be documenting the remainder of our time here. Eeek!

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A slew of photos from our recent Hamburg adventure. We leave for Sydney in one week today. Hooray! We're even sneaking in a little side trip to Melbourne to visit friends. Admittedly, it seems a tad crazy to swap a summer for a winter but sometimes there appears to be very little difference between what Munich calls summer and Sydney calls winter. Last week being a prime example. 

'til then, peace out.

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I didn't get around to posting any birthday cheer on the 24th but that sweet natured little man up there is now seven. "I can't believe I'm seven. I just can't believe it!" He requested crispy duck for dinner, a cake covered in smarties and no homework.

Happy Weekend y'all. We've got five parties to attend this weekend. Holy moly! Is it just me or does April seem to be the most popular month for having babies??

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Just some of the spoils from Saturday. We also came home with some vintage prints, glasses, paperweights, coat racks, toys, tennis racquets and a globe.

A very special little dude is turning 7 tomorrow. Seven. How/when did that happen?!

Happy Monday!

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A day in the life of (the not so) cranky Frankie.

We're off to Bavaria's biggest flea market on Saturday. It's an annual event held during the Spring Festival on the same grounds as Oktoberfest. It is HUGE. People start arriving from 5am, armed with torches to get first dibs on the goods. We're not that motivated but we have booked a babysitter to arrive in the morning. It only took us two years to realise that children and fleamarkets (the kind where you could easy lose four hours of your life) do not mix.

Happy Weekending! 

Apologies for the bombardment of Elke photos but it's been a long time between drinks. 

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While I'm sitting here putting this post together, David is in Frankfurt chatting to the blokes from Boy & Bear. We only discovered them when we we're in Sydney over Christmas but it was love at first listen.