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  • 5 things I love about Germany Adventures of Steffi
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    5 things I love about Germany and 5 things I don’t.

    2021-10-17 / No Comments

    Following on from last week’s post where I highlighted 5 things I love about England and 5 that I don’t love, it’s only fair that I give the same attention to my new home and share the things I love about Germany and the things I don’t love. I’ll preface…

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    How Germany changed me: I will never wear heels again

    2021-02-22 / No Comments

    I am not a fan of fashion. That is to say, I am not good at fashion. Never have been. But I have seen The Devil Wears Prada enough times to understand that I still very much buy into fashion as a concept and therefore I must, on some level,…

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  • Culture

    Culture: Smoking in Germany

    2021-02-07 / No Comments

    Smoking in Germany is still very popular. So popular, in fact, that a study conducted by the RKI in 2017 showed that 20.8% of women and 27% over the age of 18 smoke at least occasionally. There has been a strict smoking ban in public spaces in the UK since…

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    5 things I love about Germany Adventures of Steffi

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  • Travel

    Travel: Mini-Getaway to Saxon Switzerland

    2020-09-28 / No Comments

    Travelling internationally right now is difficult, and not something I am personally comfortable with yet. Ideally, we would have made this holiday a trip back home, but the UK is currently drowning in a sea of messy Brexit talks, a highly concerning rise in coronavirus cases (recording 6,873 new cases…

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  • Travel

    Travel Diary: a weekend in South Tyrol

    2020-08-16 / No Comments

    3:30 am on a Saturday is no time to be awake. And yet, thanks to the summer heat making it impossible to sleep properly, and sprinkled with a little bit of excitement, here we are. By 4:30 am, we are packed in the car and heading south. We have 2…

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  • Expat Diaries

    How to Buy a Car in Germany (pt.2)

    2020-07-19 / No Comments

    A couple of weeks ago, I shared part 1 of How to Buy a Car in Germany. Here’s part 2! I’m also going to provide an approximation of costs at the end, so stay tuned if you’re wondering how much it *really* costs to buy a car in Germany! Getting…

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    Expat Diaries: Learning to Slow Down

    2020-07-12 / No Comments

    In a country famous for its unlimited road speeds, I slammed the brakes on and learned to slow down. 10 months into my journey here, I am slowly beginning to enter the ‘Acceptance’ phase. Accepting that this is the life I have chosen. Oddly enough, I have the global Coronavirus…

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    How To Buy a Car in Germany

    2020-07-05 / No Comments

    In January, we decided it was time to begin the search for a German car and send our UK car back to its little island. However, we found it very difficult to find comprehensive information on exactly how to buy a car in Germany. Specifically, how to buy a car…

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    Baking in Germany is a Nightmare!

    2020-06-01 / 9 Comments

    Baking is not one of my biggest passions, but sometimes I do get the urge to start whisking eggs and folding flour into things. Usually when I am feeling anxious or stressed and feel like my life is falling apart. For a short while, baking a recipe allows me to…

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    Expat Diaries: How the Pandemic Has Affected Me

    2020-05-07 / No Comments

    Hallo meine Lieben! Hello my loves! In this week’s Expat Diaries, I have finally managed to write some coherent thoughts on the current global pandemic. Here they are! Everything feels so new and overwhelming right now. Except it doesn’t. There’s something strangely familiar about this current situation. However, that familiarity…

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Germany is a real work of art! 🇩🇪🎨 Check Germany is a real work of art! 🇩🇪🎨

Check out my AI-generated images of some of the country's most famous landmarks.

🔮 Can you guess all 6?

#Germany #landmarks #AI #travelinspiration

*this caption was also written by AI, including the hashtags 😜
What do you mean I can't lüften my way to better What do you mean I can't lüften my way to better mental health?
Swipe 👉 for what my brain did when Mr Steffi sa Swipe 👉 for what my brain did when Mr Steffi said "put your foot on the wall like a real Instagram model" 

I often wonder how he's put up with my shenanigans for over a decade 😆

This photo is from the longest castle (fortress) in the world! 🏰 Blog post and Reel coming as soon as I can be bothered to create them. How professional.

📍 Burg Burghausen, Germany
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#exploregermany #castlesofeurope #castlesofgermany #livingingermany #lifeingermany #differentcountrysameidiot
I've set my goals in quarters this year to make th I've set my goals in quarters this year to make them more attainable. But I wanted something general to guide me through the whole of 2023. So here are my words of the year:

✨ Shift - "move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance"

✨ Remain - "continue to exist, especially after other similar people or things have ceased to do so"

✨ Refine - "improve something by making small changes"

✨ Audacity - "a willingness to take bold risks"

How are you setting yourself up for the new year? Do you have a word/words for your 2023?

#newyeargoals #wordoftheyear #mindfullymovingforward #2023goals
Look at this girl happy as Larry with her first ev Look at this girl happy as Larry with her first ever Handbrot 🍞

I know it's 2023 now and Christmas is over  but I had a really great 2022 Christmas Market season and I want you to know about it so here's my ranking of German Christmas Markets:

🎄 Augsburg - go for the main Christkindlmarkt, stay for everything else. It's not a big city, but it's my home and I love it and you won't change my mind. 10/10 ⭐

🎄 Munich - go with all your life savings and a mortgage loan or don't go at all. Tourists are everywhere, it's way too busy and expensive. Cute Glühwein cups though. 5/10 ⭐

🎄 Bamberg - go hungry! Best food offerings by far and not too pricey. Very small, so don't expect an extravaganza but it's cute and quaint and not too busy. Also, Bamberg town is worth wandering round. 9/10⭐

🎄 Tollwood (Munich) - go with an open mind for creative stuff. Lots of cool art and weird indie shop stalls. Big vibes. Food is average. Not for those with a fear of felt or incense. 7/10⭐

🎄 Berlin Medieval Christmas Market - go with life insurance like a good German in case of a fire emergency. I joke, but there are fire performers there who are super entertaining! Pretty good food and different Glühwein flavours. Also axe throwing, and honey wine. But you do have to pay to enter boo. 8/10 ⭐

What were your fave Christmas markets in 2022?? TELL ME.

#Germany #lifeingermany #christmasmarkets #germanchristmasmarket #weihnachtsmarkt #christmasmarketberlin #christmasmarketmunich #christmasmarketbamberg #christmasmarketaugsburg
2022 was a good year ✌️🤗💜 #2022recap #t 2022 was a good year ✌️🤗💜

#2022recap #traveldiaries #lifediary #minivlog
Snapshots of Berlin, 14.12 & 15.12 ❤️ #Berlin Snapshots of Berlin, 14.12 & 15.12 ❤️

#Berlin #Germany #worktravel #travelgermany #lifeingermany
I made it to 30 🎉 here's some photos of me at m I made it to 30 🎉 here's some photos of me at my happiest to celebrate the occasion, plus a couple of baby gollum Steffi if you scroll far enough ➡️
🎄☃️ Festive szn 🎄☃️ Counting this a 🎄☃️ Festive szn 🎄☃️

Counting this as my first official German Christmas because my first year I was too depressed and unemployed to enjoy anything and the two years that followed were...well, a little bit not great.

Anyone else got any good Bavarian/German Christmas Market recommendations? Please don't say Munich I already went and my bank account can't take it 😫

#Germany #lifeingermany #christmasmarkets #weihnachtsmarkt #christkindlesmarktaugsburg #christkindlmarktaugsburg #visitbavaria #festiveseason
I'm not a nester. And I'm not good at DIY, nor do I'm not a nester. And I'm not good at DIY, nor do I care to be. Having the perfect house with coherent interior design has never been of interest to me, although I love visiting my friends who have wonderfully put together homes. I'm often fascinated by how their brains managed to make all of ✨this✨ happen. 

Instead, chaos tends to reign in my world. Even in the UK I never truly felt at home anywhere. Moving to Germany made that feeling a thousand times worse for a long time. 

So I learned to build a home within myself. It's taken a long time, but pursuing this allowed me the space to finally feel at home in Germany, and in the UK.

Two weeks ago, on the plane from Munich to Manchester, somebody asked me where I was going.
Aside from surpressing the urge to make the dad joke of "Same place you are hopefully" *chortles in dad*, I answered "I'm going home." 

The same thing happened on the flight back to Munich. "Where are you heading?" asks the lady next to me. "I'm going home."

Each time I land in the UK, it feels like home again. It's comfortable. Familiar. There's a Greggs with a lovely warm pasty and a yum yum waiting to greet me as I step off the plane. 

Each time I land in Germany, it feels like home again. It's comfortable. Familiar. There's a bakery with a pretzel waiting to greet me as soon as I step off the plane.
 
During the #virtualcampfire2022 virtual meet last week, the word "homeful" was brought up to describe that feeling of having multiple homes. I can't for the life of me remember the origin of this word, but I really really like it.

My home is in England. It's also in Germany. 

It's in my friends. My partner. Home is within myself.

If you made it this far into my rambling, have a gold star ⭐

Part of #virtualcampfire2022 by @chameleon_coaching and @southboundstories

EDIT: as Wiebke kindly mentioned in the comments, the term originates from @tandemnomads so all credit to her ❤️

#findinghome #discoveringhome #exploringhome #livingabroad #findinghomeabroad
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