The photos below are from our last vacation before… tada … we moved to Hamburg so I could … tadee… start a new job. I’m working in corporate communications — in English, of course — and am quite happy to be able to wear heels everyday.

We found a great apartment in the St. Georg neighborhood of the city, on the Lange Reihe — a block full of restaurants (even sushi! that’s not so horrible!), fancy paper stores and farmers markets — that reminds us of Brooklyn. Micah started at day care conveniently located directly across the street from our house, and now his German is better than mine. We’ve only been here a couple of months, but we already have a good feeling about this place.

As is required by EU Constitutional Convention Article 43, para. 3, line 27, we vacated our German premises in August to take to a two week vacation at the Italian coast.

We stayed in a rental cottage in a little seaside town in the Cilento region of Italy, about 2 hours south of Naples. The view from our patio was amazing. Micah liked to help in the kitchen. Patrick and I were also there.

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