Hey friends,
I now some of you already sit and wait for the solution of the first PiCola Quiz. I think, it was a little bit too easy for you all, because you were all right. The picture shows icicles or as they’re called in German: Eiszapfen. Click here to see the original photo. The icicles [...]

Now that we have spring (the sun just tried so hard, that almost all snow melted in my town…but only almost!), my mood changed quickly to spring spring time mood and I thought that my blog doesn’t have enough PINK! So I made the sidebar…guess: pink! Like it?
I’m just experimenting with some new things [...]

Hey guys, I wanted to post some new photos here, but then I thought I want to make a little quiz’zie similar to Marina’s pic of the week one, but mine is called “Picola-Quiz” and you must guess what’s on the pic. The picture only shows a cutout and I alienated (edited) the pic. I’ll [...]

True!
[I hope it is the right English saying for the German one: "Die meisten Unfaelle passieren im Haushalt"??
Correct me, if I'm wrong, I couldn't find this saying with translation online.]
Anyway, the saying is just so true, what I experienced today. Not even a second and I could have broken at least one leg plus my [...]

I found this funny name generator in another blog …why not *lol*
C=== Charming
O=== Old
L=== Lovable
A=== Awesome
OR
A=== Astonishing
N=== Naive
J=== Jealous
A=== Appealing
Name Acronym Generator by Go-Quiz.com
If you generated your name, too, let me know what it said

Germany needs more babies! The German population shrinks.
Germany is at the bottom of having a baby compared to the rest of Europe with only 8.5 babies per 1000 women. Particularly the east part of Germany has very low birth rates. (infos from ZDF).
With under 700.000 births Germany has the lowest birth rate since 1-9-4-5 !! [...]

sorry, but a (ex-) fellow student posted this picture today in our student online community and I thought that it’s kinda funny
The photo looks like it is not taken in Germany, but it would fit totally. Spring starts in a few days (21.) but the snow doesn’t want to melt. I haven’t seen [...]

Because it was so simple and good…a quick recipe post (for friends of German dumplings, esp. Nathan-the-dumpling-lover *g*):
I tried out something new…filled dumplings

Here the recipe for two people (~8 dumplings):
Bring 500ml (2 cups) milk, 1/2 ts salt and ~10g (1/4 oz) butter to boil.
Take the pan off the hot plate and stir 150g [...]

Haha, yes, with this title a German television station (das Erste) names the German winner of the Eurovision Song Contest that had the preliminary decision tonight on TV (I just turned on the channel on TV by accident). They showed three music band and the audience chose with telephone voting the winner: “Texas Lightning”. Have [...]

I had an appointment at my dentist yesterday. I came out with one tooth less. One of my wisdom teeth. I had three teeth infected with cavity (yeah, I’m the choco monster). After my dentist had filled two teeth he asked me if he already told me that my health care doesn’t pay for the [...]