The best German sausage roll I’ve ever tried is Bratwurstkipferl in restaurant Historische Wurstkuchl, Regensburg. The restaurant serves sausage since 500 years and still using the cooking technique since then. How cool that I tasted exactly the same food as the Regensburg citizen 500 years ago! The 500 years old sausage roll with the view …
The smiling angel in Saint Peter’s Cathedral is bringing the message to Maria: “Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum!“ This was taken from the Bible Luke 1:28The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” When I was standing there looking up at the angel, it …
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”… …“Suppose it should be raving mad after all! I almost wish I’d gone to see the Hatter instead!” Alice said. Excerpt from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll …
The coming Sunday, 18th June is Father’s Day. Let me take the opportunity of this special day to share with you a touching memory of a son as he remembered his father. He called his father “Jack”, but his name is C.S. Lewis, the creator of Narnia. Jack was a man who lived what he …
It has been ten days since Tim Keller passed away, his books helped and still helping me a lot. I have read The Reason For God and Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering a long time ago, now I am reading his Counterfeit Gods. His writing is challenging and most importantly, liberating and life-saving.Some …
This children’s music book contains 5 places in the Palace of Versailles, each place is assigned to a music piece around 17th century. There are little white buttons to press to make the music play. Little words in French combine with the illustrations, they reflect what music for which occasion. The musical life in Versailles …
The coffee grinder was fine: as soon as you rotated the crank, it played ” May makes everything new… “. But, oh wonder – it played it in two voices!How is that possible? Can you explain it? Die Kaffeemühle war in Ordnung : Sobald man die Kurbel drehte, spielte sie “Alles neu macht der Mai …
I am now slowly recovering from being sick (again). New sickness every month. This time is worse than all the sickness I had in this year. I could not eat anything, I just threw up as soon as I ate. To avoid fainting because of dehydration and energy deficiency, I wrote to my friend to …
I visit The Louvre for the 2nd time. Visiting this museum for the 2nd time, I was free from the stress to see the “Must See” artworks like Mona Lisa and The Winged Victory. This time I was searching for Dutch Artworks in the Room 844 – Paintings of North Europe. Why? Because Vincent van …
Stepping into the bookstore was like entering an enchanted book world that only exists in imagination. Every corner, each room, the staircase, the corridor are decorated with such careful detail. My most loved room was the reading place at the 2nd floor, by the window. Then I read about the late bookstore owner wanted to write a novel with his bookstore, if I was in his bookstore, I was part of his novel. That was the magic he used.