This year we decorated our first common Christmas tree. We bought lights, decorations and gifts together and we had an ideal Christmas atmosphere. We even found out that it is possible to buy a fresh carp here. Although we celebrated Christmas in Slovakia, we left two wrapped gifts under our tree at home, so we could unpack them afterwards. … read more

Last weekend, we took advantage of a good weather after a long week of snowing and went sledding. … read more

This recipe is from my mummy. I like apple cakes and pies in general, but this combines also some nuts, raisins ans cinnamon and it’s just really tasty.

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This year’s St. Nicholas evening we played an interesting game called A white elephant gift exchange with another about 40 people. There was St. Nicholas personally near the Christmas tree too obey the rules. … read more

Walking in the park in winter, especially when there is snow everywhere, is absolutely fantastic. Although only until the sunset, because then it starts freezing properly and it is better to hide even in the subway. As I haven’t been in Englischer Garten at the time of snow, we went there during the last weekend. Originally, we wanted to go sledging on the nearby hill, but the season was just opened and so we concluded that there would be too many people anyway.

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During the weekend, we went to the Christmas markets. There are quite a lot of them in Munich. Basically, each Munich neighborhood has its own market. We went directly to the Marienplatz in the centre. There were many stands decorated with green boughs and colorful lights. They offered many things, among others, wooden ornaments and toys, candles and Christmas hats. I was really impressed by one stand that offered all sorts of wooden things ( cutting boards, spatula, etc.) on which the man in the stand drew different animals, flowers or wrote everything according to your wish. There were also many stands (Hütte) with traditional delicacies like gingerbread (Lebkuchen), mulled wine (Glühwein), roasted chestnuts (Maroni), grilled sausages (Bratwurst) and something that looked like a pizza but with cream, onion and bacon and tasted incredibly good (Flammkuchen).

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This is one of those recipes, which are really easy to prepare and it is also a nice opportunity for the spinach to be spent . I did many changes to the original recipe. However, I think there are still loads of possibilities for improvements and adaptation to different tastes.

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After three years, this year’s advent is special for us. Finally, we don’t plan Christmas as a common holiday after long months, when we haven’t seen each other. We actually live together, enjoy snow and we’re not stressed whether I’ll be stuck somewhere at the airport due to bad weather.

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