Snow

This is the view out of our kitchen window last Tuesday - SNOW!!!!!!


While the whole of Europe is moaning about this year's long and snow-rich winter, we are delighted to see finally some of the white precious flakes! It's more than a year since we last enjoyed snow...
For Easter, we are heading towards Innsbruck, so let's hope that there will still be some snow for us by then! But our spirits are high as we hear from our families that the mountains back home are still white.
So Anna is preparing for her first touch with snow:

Schloss Glienicke

We went for a walk on Sunday despite the cold and very windy weather.


Nevertheless, the light and the special clouds made it an attractive stroll across the Babelsberg Park to the park and gardens of Glienicke Palace north of the Babelsberg Castle. Here is a view towards Babelsberg Castle:


Many buildings of the Schloss Glienicke (Glienicke Palace) show a strong Italian influence with many antiques elements:




Kamil is climing exotic granite boulders that were brought from Scandinavia to here by the gigantic glaciers of the last ice age.

Fooling Around With Daddy

Sigh! - I now have TWO children...

Telegrafen Berg

Kamil started his work at the Geoforschungszentrum (GFZ) three weeks ago. Finally, we managed to visit him at his office together with his brother Michi. The GFZ is located in the Albert-Einstein-Science-Park on the Telegrafen Berg (amazing 94 m high!!!) in Potsdam.


Most of the buildings and observatories were built in the second half of the 19th century:


The Einstein-Tower is the most famous building in the park:


These are the buildings of the GFZ built in the 1990ies:


Kamil in his new office:

Uncle Michi

Yippie, uncle Michi came to visit us this week! Another first encounter for Anna with one of her uncles. She definitely feels comfortable with uncle Michi and sleeps very well in his arms. So we used him as Anna-holder for most of the time of his visit ;-) !


...or as baby stroller pusher...


...which he did really professionally...


...not only in the Babelsberg Park...


...but also in Park Sanssouci:




And Michi was doing the first warming-up training with Anna for her future career as professional skier!


Thanks, Michi, that you made it so far up into the north to visit us despite your deep fear of the Prussians!

Father and Daughter

A Sunday-Walk in the Park

Another grey day, but a Sunday, so Kamil and I pack our little girl into the stroller and off we go into the Babelsberg Park.


New paths and new buildings are to be discovered, like the old house of the gardener:


Or the boatman's house:


And here in the background, you can see the Neo-Gothic castle of the Babelsberg Park, built between 1835-1849:


It was build beautifully in English Gothic architecture, but today needs renovation like most of the buildings in the park:


But as it is holding the title of World Cultural Heritage (Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin), a lot of money is invested in its maintenance and repairs.