A highlight of our Balinese holiday was visiting the gorgeous Tanah Lot temple at sunset, with a stop at a Luwok Coffee Plantation and a Kecak Fire Dance. It made for the perfect Balinese evening!
I always love decorating my dining table with the seasons, but fall and winter have me decorating it the best! I wanted to share how I make my fall tablescape in case anyone else wants some ideas for the upcoming holidays, or every day! Every fall I love to pick up gourds from the market or grocery store to add to my table. The more color, the better! I also have a few colored corn stalks mixed in. Arrange them spread out along the center of the table. A burgundy-red candle holder is in the center of the table surrounded by […]
Stuttgart’s prettiest season is upon us! Fall foliage is here, and you don’t want to miss it! It will get even more colorful over the next few weeks, but I wanted to snap some pictures this weekend while we had the chance. These are from the Karlshöhe! If you aren’t familiar with the Karlshöhe, it is a large hill in Stuttgart Süd that holds a bunch of playgrounds, sand volleyball courts, Stuttgart’s prettiest biergarten and gorgeous walking paths. The paths are beginning to change colors so make sure to check it out asap! Let’s go! Similar beret, my favorite jeans […]
This week David and I are celebrating four years of marriage! We stayed local this year but I can’t help but think back to our epic 3 year anni trip to Singapore and Bali last year. It was our first time to southeast Asia – I had spent one month in Japan before but had not made it down to the southeast! And WOW, it blew us away. As you may know the prices in SE Asia are extremely reasonable and the natural beauty is astounding. Bali is a tiny island in Indonesia but has SO MUCH to offer. I […]
If you didn’t catch word, my favorite (free!) activity these days is wine hiking! Also known as vineyard walks or Weinwanderung in German. Untertürkheim is our starting base and only a 10 minute S-bahn ride away from downtown Stuttgart. You basically walk up the big vineyard hill behind the town and from there, go exploring! The routes are endless. By the end of our hike I’ve already plotted another route to take next time. 🙂 So this weekend we were walking through the vineyards, you know, as we normally do and we then stumbled upon a little apple tree grove […]
Autumn is my absolute favorite season, and Stuttgart is stunning in the fall. The air turns crisp in the morning and evenings, we get spectacular sunrise and sunsets, I light candles every night for dinner, and am most inspired in the kitchen whipping up cosy meals of butternut squash, sage, sweet potatoes, and all of the savory goodness! My favorite fall weekend activity is walking through the vineyards around harvest time and we did just that this weekend in the town’s surrounding Stuttgart, with some Besen stops mixed in for extra fun! We are so lucky to live in and […]
Ciao ciao friends!!! Since the epic Sardinia vacay, we celebrated David’s birthday in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Montenegro with friends, took a week back in the States for my brothers wedding (!!), and have been hanging around Stuttgart. I started thinking that I rarely post about my daily life in Stuttgart, and need to change that asap. Here’s a look into my daily musings around our city! Walking through my neighborhood, I tried to capture some of my favorite buildings. The south side of Stuttgart has more historical buildings, while the north towards the Hauptbahnhof has much more modern […]
Since purchasing our first home in April (spoiler: it’s in Charleston SC but we still live in Stuttgart Germany), I have become particularly obsessed interested in home interiors. Both my husband and I have been renting our entire adult lives and I am ready to finally make a space mine. This past spring while we were under contract for our forever home, we put a hold on our frequent travel and I realized I needed something to take up my mind space: no more planning and booking trips in my free time, homegirl needed something to do. Cue a great hobby […]