Torwen's Blog

I had a bit of butternut squash left in the fridge and today I used up in this nice and spicy tagine:    The recipe was taken from...

Yesterday I had a day full of surprises. The kids planned the day for me, and it started nicely with a pumpkin pie (slightly deformed, sinc...

The first snowflakes officially herald the advent of oven-baked food in our home, like this sweet potato pie: The recipe is based on ...

Today the garden nursery Huben in Ladenburg, not far from our home, held a pre-Advent event. Mainly to sell their wreaths and other deco fo...

What better to read on Hallow's Eve than a story about the dead or rather the dead who came to life again. Yes, I'm talking about Fr...

Sometimes the horizon seems a bit hazy Lake District, England and at other times your path seems crystal clear Dubai, UAE   ...

Some impressions from the Christmas Market in Karlsruhe (Christkindlesmarkt):   The ice rink: The big Christmas windmill near ...

Last week I was in Frankfurt to see the Exhibition about the Queens of the Merovingians . To not bore you too much, I will put information a...

  The state museum of archaeology in Stuttgart is showing a special exhibition ‘T he World of the Celts ‘. You can go and see it until 17...

After yesterdays ukiyo-e exhibition we were quite hungry and it was time to feed the lions (well only two of them, but they were hungry fo...

'Early Ukiyo-e Master' is an exhibition still running at the Völkerkunde Museum (ethnology museum) in Heidelberg. Since it was ra...

Today was kind of a strange day. We are living in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg (now can you pronounce this one *grin*), in a part that b...

Ray Bradbury's own oil painting of the Halloween Tree source: from this webpage Will be spending the evening reading Ray Bradbury...

In the afternoon we went on a desert safari. Our tourguide was a bit grumpy and hardly talked at all; mostly just bellowing orders like: ...