Craving the sun

We're back to the usual here in Berlin. Cold, rain, even some snow. Last weekend though was completely different. Warm and sunny and I really hoped it would last.

On Tuesday my friend Erika and I decided to take advantage of the sun. We met for lunch and a quick walk at the park. We went to a nice italian place and enjoyed some very tasty pizzas.

Say hi to Erika!

Look how nice she organized her pizza leftovers :)
They are even sort by color too! Super cute!

This is what I had. Yummy :)

After our lunch we went to a nearby park.

I really like when we meet. Even if it's only for a quick lunch. We don't know each other that long but somehow our conversations are always long and meaningful. It's good to have that...

The apartment!!

It maybe took us 3 long months, but we finally did it! We found an apartment! yaay!! Signed our contracts last week and we'll be moving there on March 1st.

This is how the apartment looks 

Welcome :)

Kitchen + living room

Bedroom

 

The last 2 photos are my favorite!! Yes, that's where my mini studio is going to be. It's a small room but I'll make it work. There is even a build in bed so my studio will have a double role :) It's going to be the guest bedroom too. 

I just realize that I din't take any photos of the bathroom :) I'll do it on my next visit to the house. I'm very exited about it. I can't wait to start decorating it. It will be a slow process though :)

The apartment is situated on the back side. It's a garden house, which makes it very quiet. The area is nice too. We have a big park close to us, the metro station and a really nice Italian Restaurant just across the street from us. We've already tried it and it's a keeper :)

I think Mr.G and I will be happy there.

Happy Birthday!!!!

Just a quick post to say Happy Birthday to Mr G.!!!! Going out later to celebrate!! yaaaay!!!

ps. Image found here 

Bookstores are dangerous!

Yesterday Mr G. and I met for lunch in the afternoon. Before going to the restaurant I had to make a quick stop in a bookstore. The A1.2. German course will soon begin, so I needed to buy the book for it. I  only needed this one book. But after more then an hour later we left the bookstore with these...

Hence the title of today's post. The book that I actually needed is the blue one at the very bottom... But once you're in there and having all these treasures around you, it's very difficult to resist buying them. Especially when the bookstore itself looks like this...

Crappy photos taken with my phone camera

It's an amazing place! I could live there!! Really, do you need anything more??? Bookstores make me very happy!

Lazy Sunday

For me Sundays are the ultimate lazy days. On Saturday you're still under the week's rush, but on Sunday I feel like everything slows down and one can really relax. What can be better than doing just that in a lovely, quiet place. With a good cup of coffee and a nice breakfast. Surrounded by books, flowers and a peaceful atmosphere. 

Yesterday Mr G. and I spent our day in a place like that. It wasn't intended or planned. We went to a house viewing and the agent informed us that there were more houses to be seen on this day if we were interested. Since the one we had just seen wasn't good, we agreed. The only issue was that the next viewing was at 3 o'clock. So we found ourselves with 3 hours to kill. Going home wasn't a good idea since the next apartment wasn't that far from where we were. We decided to have a coffee and pass the time in this nice cafe that we spotted on our way.

Inside the coffee place was nicely decorated. With a "glance to the past" furniture, candles or flowers on the tables and full of books. Having all this I knew that those three hours would pass really nice. To my surprise among all those books was a copy of M. Connelly's "The Black Echo" which as it happens I'm listening to for the past few days. Therefore I just picked it up from where I had left it. That was so cool! Of course after reading a few pages I needed to have this book, so I could continue it at home. I like audio books and how practical they can be when I knit or exercise, but for me there's no comparison to a printed copy and how it feels in my hands. As it turned out this was a BookCrossing place so the book came home with me! yaay!!! I can just return it when I'm finished or leave them another book. BookSrossing is the newest favorite thing of mine :)

   

Unfortunately the apartments that we viewed later on (2 of them in a total) were even worst than the first one. By then it was 4.30 in the afternoon, we were cold and starving so the last stop before going home was a lovely Indian restaurant. 

Beautiful decoration.

A yummy vegetable soup and some curry chicken made us forget about the bad apartments that we saw. I'll be visiting again both of those places discovered today for sure.