stories and photos of a simple Filipina who found her second home, Wolfenbüttel, DE

Sunday, July 24, 2011

just here... at home...

















moin moin everyone! :)

it's summer again! it's been quite a long time since the last time i blogged here in my flip - flops and backpack, after travelling to Turkey and some places in Europe like Austria, France and Switzerland, Michael and me decided to stay at home this summer, and enjoy the season together with my in laws :) but in September we'll be travelling again, where? we don't know yet.

here are some of my summer photos at home in our " klein aber fein" ( small but fine) balkon :) hope you guys are enjoying the season too :) let's enjoy summer while it's here! :)

" A Life without Love... is like a year without summer....." Swedish Proverb.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

flip - flops and backpack goes to Turkey!




















moin moin everyone!


so sorry for my long silence.. been missing so much the blogosphere! would like to thank you all my fellow bloggers for your time visiting flip - flops and backpack and our site The Salitype Society :)


i will just make this short, Michael my husband and me are travelling again and this time to Turkey, so excited! ;) happy easter everyone! and goodbye again for a while! :) see you in May! muah!

watch out Turkey! here
comes flip - flops and backpack! :)

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

little winter flowers

" Let us love winter for it is the spring of genius "

By: Pietro Aretino





" Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in Autumn "


By: Marche Blumenberg







" flowers are the sweetest things God ever made... and forgot to put soul into..." By: Henry Beecher



Monday, January 3, 2011

Belated Merry Christmas and A Blessed 2011!

























sorry for my long silence everyone, i hope my greetings is not yet too late :) wishing you all a very merry christmas and a happy new year!!!! :)

" May this holidays bring you peace, love, hope and happiness.. to carry throughout the year..."

with love from us here in Wolfenbüttel,

M&M

Monday, November 22, 2010

Pont di Avignon










do you know the song " Sur le Pont d' Avignon"? come sing with me! ;)


Sur le Pont d' Avignon


Sur le pont d' Avignon

L' on y danse, l'on y danse




Sur le pont d' Avignon
L' on y danse tous en rond


Les beaux messieurs font comm ca

Et puis encore comm ca

( please search in google or wikipedia for the complete lyric of the song)

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

M&M's 5th Year Wedding Anniversary








" We are all a little weird... and life's a little weird... and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible to ours... we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it LOVE..." Author Unknown


last 4th of November, we celebrated our 5th Year Wedding Anniversary :) i think there's not much words needed... nor a long love story to tell... we have each other, and that's the most important... :) Happy 5th Year Anniversary M&M! :) and so... our journey continues....

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Bonjour! from Provence! :)

the meditteraenean sea in Camargue



snail ;) cooked in olive oil, garlic, onions and secret herbst from the Elsacer cook ;) lecker! ;)

pottery shop in Sufflenheim

wild white horse in wetlands of Camargue

ricefields in Camargue


village of Le Baux

breathtaking view on our way to Le Baux

Tarascon castle

"Val des Fees" ( valley of the fairies) in Rousillon


at the main square of Palais des Papes in Avignon

Pont di Avignon

Amphitheater in Nimes

Pont du Gard

River Gard in pont du Gard


Antique Theater in Orange

Ardeche is famous for it's fascinating landscape



Perouges is the first city we visited in Provence

grapes from kaiserstuhl

vineyard terraces in Kaiserstuhl


"Fachwerkhäuser" in Burkheim

Bonjour! :) Yes, i'm back! ;) flip - flops and backpack is back! ;) how's my fellow bloggers? hope everyone is doing fine, two weeks ago we came back from our trip to Provence in France. Two weeks travelling in Provence is not enough, but at least within that time we visited some amazing places.

let me just share to you guys some photos of each places we visited, and watch out for more photos and stories, can't blog so often now because of too many reasons, and one more thing we are leaving again end of this month to go to Budapest, Hungary to celebrate our 5th Year Wedding Anniversary :) so, this post will be like my comeback post, so guys hope you enjoy viewing the photos and enjoy the fun in the world of blogging! :) and please! watch out for my entry about our trip in Camargue in our site in Salitype Society. God Bless you all....