[if you can read this, please skip the first paragraph!]

Wir Ihr gemerkt habt, mussten wir erstmal eine Weile überlegen, was wir jetzt mit dem Blog anfangen wollen. Wir haben uns nun entschieden, den Spieß umzudrehen und ab jetzt hauptsächlich für unsere Freunde in Übersee zu schreiben. Die mussten in den vergangen zwei Jahren immer mit der Google-Übersetzung leben und sind jetzt auch mal dran. Nun da wir wieder in unserem "normalen" Leben gelandet sind, sind die Sachen die wir jetzt schreiben können, wahrscheinlich auch interessanter für jemanden der nicht auch hier wohnt. Wer trotzdem weiter reinschauen möchte, hat immer noch die Bilder... und die Google-Übersetzung. Und los gehts:

We took some time to figure out what we want to do with the blog, now that we are back to normal. As you can read this without the Google translation you have probably figured out what the change is. While living a German life it makes little sense to tell other Germans things they already know in German. Therefore, we will focus on our English reading friends that had to suffer from automated translation results over the past two years.

Let's start with some impressions of the first walk in town after weeks of unpacking boxes and filling out forms (the nasty German ones). Karoline's grand-parents came to visit and we spend the afternoon in the river valley the divides Halle in an east and a west half.

The weather is beautiful these days -- much nicer than the actual summer must have been here. We walked by the Giebichenstein castle. This is the oldest castle on the river Saale, about 1100 years old and partially ruined. This is one of two castles within the city limits of Halle. Directly opposite the castle on the eastern shore is the restaurant "Krug zum grünen Kranze" that was known all over east Germany -- for a folk music show that was recorded there and broadcasted on national television. This is were we had our wedding party.