After the flood ...

Our dear neighbour living one floor up installed a new jaccuzzi in September, flooding all our bathrooms and sleeping rooms. As the familiy has been on safe grounds in Vienna during autumn vacation, our in the meantime well-known repair men Sascha and Grischa did the repairs: new floors in 3 rooms, new wall papers, new lamps, fixing the wooden chests that suffered from the water, ... see some amazing pictures what Peter saw when coming back on Monday.

Now it's Friday and the miracle has happened again: It is finsihed !!!

Guests' room is ready for visitors.

birthday party

Nathalie celebrated her 6th birthday today.

She brought a Guglhupf to school and after school we had a party at home with some friends she had invited: pirates and princesses.

At the end of the day, she went to bed with a big smile: my 6th birthday was the best day of my life!"

Her sister was invited to a party taking place at the same time but was back before the end of our party and could join in.

Drinking Water.....?

Here is what the water looks like in the bathtub. so far, no skin reactions. Maybe that's just the really natural colour of water ................ and in Western Europe it's the EU forcing the water suppliers to artificially make the water clear and transparent.......

Anyway, we have switched to showers for most days, eventhough we haven't had any skin reactions from the bathtub, so far.

holes on the way

some time ago, I wrote about the pouring rain making holes into streets and to give you a picture, of what I meant, well here it is. This is not a little side street, it is an important through-way (Olessia Honchara).

cold water leads to warm water....

the guess was right: the heating was turned on during the night, the heating is now running full speed. We seem to be lucky: we had heard, that you cannot turn the heating down and the only way to cool off between now and May is to open the windows. Apparently, we can turn down all radiators, except three :-)
And: the warm water is back!

no blackout in a long time......

We haven't had any blackouts for about 3 weeks now :-)
But now the hot water is gone and a chat with the concierge (in Russian) stands between us and the solution..... next challenge!
Wait a minute: today is the 15th............rumours had it, that today the heating would be turned on........... it hasn't been turned on.......... but maybe the warm water was turned off instead....?