Chamomile tea, brownies and food from strangers.

Today was a beautiful day!

View from the hostel window this morning

Today I managed to only spend 1 euro on food! Breakfast is included in the room rate for the youth hostel, so I filled up!

I went back for hot chocolate, and realised that the muesli had chocolate chips in it so got Jam for my bread instead and tucked the Nutella away for another time.

Then the Taiwanese girl who had been sharing the dorm with me was flying out today and had a bread roll from the day before which she wouldn’t need. She gave it to me with some honey and jams so that was lunch sorted! I ate lunch in the historic part of the city, the weather was lovely today.

My view at lunch

After that I went to work at the cafe where I got to have dinner (Quiche and salad) and then got to take home a broken brownie and the last sandwich that didn’t sell!

view from the old bridge on the way back to the hostel after work

Now I am sitting here looking at almost the same view with a chamomile tea that cost me 1 euro which I have already had refilled with hot water. Yay!

Sleep tight!

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Whoops!

So… on Monday afternoon last week I logged into online banking for my Australian bank and transferred $1000.00 into my new German bank account.

Something went wrong. The money has left my Australian account and not turned up in my German account. I seem to have got confused and put the wrong numbers and codes in. But we won’t panic yet…. right?

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Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax…

I should be sleeping. I won’t be happy about this in the morning! My alarm is set for 6:30am so that I can get to the council building by 8am to say ‘Hello Germany, here I am!’

I’ve already listened through three repetitions of my Deep sleep application. Which by the way worked really well last night. Tonight however for some inexplicable reason I’m all happy and excited and full of positivity and great ideas and the world is once again overflowing with opportunity!

I think it has something to do with the fact that tomorrow will be sunny and my having found a writer, a stylist and an art gallery/museum curator all in my area on the couchsurfing website (I can’t wait to send some invites out and see if any of them will meet me for coffee). All greatly aided by a healthy dose of perspective from reading a friends blog of her experiences doing the same thing in France (much, much worse)!

Goodnight and sweet dreams!

Much love,
                   Amanda, who has found the cool giant toadstools in Wonderland!

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