The next week started with a trip to Chicago for Franzi and Alex flew off to South Carolina again. Franzi had a team dinner on Tuesday which is always a nice break from typical work during the week. We both got back Thursday night on time, a small miracle. Friday night after work, Alex went […]
Buying motorcycles
Saturday was a special day – we both bought motorcycles!!!!!! After visiting a couple of dealers, we decided to go for Triumph. So, we made our way to Williamsburg, Brooklyn and got all the paperwork done. Franzi decided on a Triumph Street Twin and Alex on a Triumph Scrambler XE 1200. The purchasing process took […]
Walking around the neighborhood and classic cars
Again, a beautiful sunny day – so we decided to explore our neighborhood and Soho a little more. We started off at Union Square where we explored the Greenmarket and walked up to Madison Square Park. Later we changed directions and went south to gaze at the amazing iron cast buildings in SOHO and do […]
New York in the 1960s
Saturday was a great day! We got a late start after having some bagels and then took a walk through SoHo along Mulberry, Elizabeth and Mott Street, which all offer gorgeous boutiques with great quality clothes, home goods and other good things, like nice custom build motorcycles parked on the street. We also checked out […]
Making our home our home
Overall Friday was a hectic day – we had to go back to the bank since the clerk was not able to process our request the day before due to “bank internal process delays”. As a result, the money we transferred from Germany was not accessible on Thursday when we originally planned to get certified […]
Shopping in all dimensions
We shipped quite some furniture from Germany to the US but we left a couple of essentials at home, as we knew they would be too big for a New York apartment. So we decided to dedicate the cloudy day to finding some furniture for our new place. Since Alex is really big into motorcycles […]