Yearly Archives: 2015

4 Years

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This past week was a really important week for us, on September 16th we celebrated 4 years together! Hooray 😀 We celebrated with two date nights: in and out. On Wednesday, Rafael made this incredible bruschetta with prosciutto, figs and camembert cheese, the most perfect combination if you ask me! And of course we opened a bottle of red wine and enjoyed the company of Dexter Morgan while we were at it! We started watching Dexter on Netflix three weeks ago, and we are so hooked up, we just finished the third season. It’s amazing how his character is so well built, you get so involved in his life that you start cheering for him, although he is a serial killer…it only happens in fiction! hahahaha

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Easy Meals

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I’m always searching the web for new recipes, I left my cookbooks in Brazil and I still don’t master the german language enough to buy german cookbooks, but that is on my list, of what I’ve seen in the bookstores here, there are a lot of interesting choices.

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Sommerbad Neukölln

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A short while ago we discovered that we live near one of the numerous public pools here in Berlin. I was already dying to go, and what else to do on a hot summer sunny day?! We woke up early to enjoy the whole day there, the pool opens at 8am and closes at 8pm, we arrived around 9 o’clock and there was already a little line to get in, which scared me at first because I thought it was already crowded. But gladly I was mistaken 🙂 it takes a couple of minutes to pay (€5,50 adults, the whole day). When we got in I really got amazed with the size of it all, two adult pools, one for kids, and a huge area to lie down and relax. It was so well organised and clean, you can also pack snacks and bring them with you.

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Liepnitzsee

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Welcome August!

I can’t believe we are in this month already…time really does fly! It seems like we arrived in Berlin yesterday…but it’s been almost 7 months! 😮  There is so much more to discover in this amazing city, one year just isn’t enough.

Since it’s summer and this week here in Berlin is promising to be hot, I decided to post about a really cool lake that we went last month. Summer here is really different from the one I am used to in Brazil…of course! As a tropical country it’s more hot than cold, and in São Paulo (where I lived) you can count on your fingers the days that are really cold in the winter. The same happens here in Berlin, but in the exact opposite, you can count the days that exceed 30ºC in the summer…hahahaha Those are the days that you enjoy by going at lakes and public pools (there are a lot of public pools in Berlin).

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Summer Peach Galette

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If there is one thing I can’t enough of is stone-fruits, I love peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums and cherries. These fruits here in Berlin are really cheap in the summer, you can find packages of 1kg for €0.99 or less, and they are really tasty and delicious! This is very different in Brazil, these fruits can be very expensive and not that tasty, but the same can happen here with tropical fruits.

It has been a little while that I wanted to bake a peach pie, but since our kitchen here is not fully equipped, I needed a recipe that didn’t involve a baking pan, blender or mixer. So I went to look online and came across this recipe, which was easy to bake. I felt so happy while I was making it, I really enjoy making the dough from scratch and work with fresh ingredients, a good playlist also helps to set a good mood 🙂

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Prinzessinnengärten

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After 5 months of intensive Deutsch class, summer vacation is finally here!

Since we don’t have much money to travel around Europe, we are going to spend the summer here in Berlin. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining at all about this, on the opposite, I am very happy 😀 There are so many cheap or free things you can do in this city, it’s amazing! If there is one thing I love to do on a hot lazy afternoon, is to chill out at a park or garden or any type of green area, and Berlin is full of them!

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The Ice Cream Market

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With summer knocking on our door, there are endless events here in Berlin. Every weekend there is so much things to do, and so little time to enjoy everything around, it’s like a I almost have to plan my weekend…hahaha Good thing that the sun goes down around 10 o’clock at night, I love the long days around here, I feel more excited to things.

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Karneval der Kulturen

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We had so much fun on the weekend here in Berlin, actually it was a long weekend, yesterday was also a holiday here due to Pentecost. Every year during this long weekend, they celebrate Karneval der Kulturen (Carnival of Cultures). On Sunday, there was a huge parade at Kreuzberg’s neighbourhood, about 80 countries participates with caravans celebrating the cultural diversity of Berlin with their traditional costumes and ritual dances.

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My Mini Diana

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A couple of years ago, Rafael gave me a Lomo camera, Mini Diana. I was thrilled! It had been years since I took a photo with an analogical camera. It came with three 35 mm film, one black and white and two coloured (normal and chrome). The first time that I used the camera, I mixed the films….I thought that I was using a coloured one, but instead, it was the black and white. Until today, I still don’t know how I did that, because the type is written on the film….a little bummer, but still I had some nice pictures at the end, but I have to confess that some of them are black as the night! hehehehehe

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1st of May

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Here’s a little bit of what we did yesterday here in Berlin! The 1st of May here is a really big deal! We went to Kreuzberg, a fantastic neighbourhood here in Berlin, with our Italian friend Maurizio. There was this huge open party in the street, with different types of music and food in every corner. We arrived there around one o’clock in the afternoon, and there was already many people there, so we walked around the streets, ate something here and there, and of course appreciated the sun when he wasn’t hiding behind the clouds…ˆˆ

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