Tuesday, June 23, 2009

American Cupcakes I



These are my first American Cupcakes which I made from my new vegan cupcake cookbook bought in the US. I brought them into work on Monday to make my return more memorable to my colleagues who had already forgotten me during the long time I had been away. For the future I plan to get a little bit more adventurous with the cupcake icing. I will try another variety when John, Jen and James are coming over. I am already very excited!

Country In The Green Note



Constanze and I went to the green note in Camden (http://www.greennote.co.uk/) a bar which serves vegetarian food and has live music. We watched a very English country band from Leeds which felt slightly weired to me.

Primrose Hill



On my second weekend my friend Constanze visited me from Germany. We went around town and spend nice afternoon on Primrose Hill from where you can see most of London. The weather has been alright since my return, it was mostly sunny with a light breeze but as soon as the evening comes you have to wear a jacket. Good that I have my new American jeans jacket which is equally good for Atlanta spring as for London summer and can always be worn as a Canadian tuxedo.

Kentish Town At Blue Hour



I have been missing ATL a lot since I am back but there are also some nice things in London which I enjoy doing. Among them is walking up Kentish Town High Street to my local organic shop Earth Natural or to one of the pubs at "Blue Hour" like you say in German, the twilight hour.

Back In The London Office



One of the nice things about being back in the London office is that I am back with my lovely office buddy James. We share an office which is not always easy because we are both annoyingly noisy and extroverted but we have so much fun in the tiny breaks between working tremendously hard. I took this photo when I had arrived in the office straigt from the airport Monday morning.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Vegan Cookout for Sharms' Leaving Do



This photo is now in my office to remind me of the great time I had in Atlanta. It has been such an interesting and impressive stay and I am still thinking about it a lot. Everyone has been so nice and I have felt truely at home. Vielen Dank fuer alles! Especially to John and Jen who did not only organise the party but also were my 24/7 ATL support line - how could I have done without you!

Last Bike Ride

John and I had to take this photo as one of the last Atlanta pictures...it started with this bicycle and I used it right until the last hours of my stay when I tried to cycle to Little5Points with James. After showing a reasonable performance during the last Z6P outings (with a couple of exceptions) he managed to mishandle his bike and punctured his tyre within the first 50 meters of our ride. So we had to go to the bike shop right away to change the tire.