In Germany now

I’m writing this in Munich, in our two bedroom apartment that serves as our home for a few weeks. Sanna got a chance to visit European Patent Office for three weeks, and I’m running our private kindergarten during that time.

So far, I’ve mostly spent my time with visiting several small grocery stores and cooking. Every single store has been smaller than a typical Finnish supermarket, and none of them has sold everything we’ve been looking for. I’ve bought some cheese from one store, fresh vegetables from another, and rice from third. This feels so inefficient.

Besides “shopping”, I’ve been playing with my kids. We’ve spend some time in a local public pool — that had superb settings for children; I didn’t have any chances to dip into water, though — and playing football on the pavements. We bought an inexpensive and small replica of the football World Cup ball from the nearest sports store and it has been kicked around intensively.

We’ll do some real shopping tomorrow when we visit the main high-end shopping street — I’d like to buy a pair of shoes or two — and then on Sunday we dwell on culture by visiting the fairytale castle on Neuschwanstein and a museum whose name I’ve forgotten (but Sanna knows it).

My parents will arrive on Monday for a few days, and we’ll visit Legoland on Tuesday. I’ll try to provide more reports later, as I should have more time to write to Nomadig.com than before.