So much has happened since my last post in the 'Tales' section.

Eva and I left Namibia in June 2014, and are now living in Berlin.

The house and the animals are still with Eva's dad, apart from the chickens, who now live on a farm.

I have turned my healing and coaching business into an online venture, which is great fun as long as the technology works :-).

Eva is a real teenager (and taller than me, scary that!). After a tough couple of months she now has lots of friends in the International School she goes to, and is taking constant advantage of living in a world city.

Which means that I hardly ever see her. But she is happy and good at school and hasn't dabbled much in the things parents of teenagers worry about (I think, I hope... No, of course she hasn't!).

We live in an apartment in a seedy part of town (game saloons, Turkish fast food and, strangely enough, tanning studios). It is old and has high ceilings and a balcony and really dirty wooden floors I was supposed to sand down on moving in but didn't.

And we have another dog. Eva and I lasted 6 months without any animals. We didn't want to bring the Namibian ones here, they are all free-ranging and big cities are probably not their thing.

So enter Lucy, who is hardly ever called that. Instead she listens (or not) to Flederchen (my mum's name for her, referring to the German word for a bat, cause she has rather huge ears), Mausi (Eva's contribution) and Bobbakins (that's what I call her. No idea why. No idea what it means either).

Anyway, she is very sweet and very loving and always hungry, and gets me to go outside even if it's minus 12 degrees, like today.

Funny how we moved from close to the South Pole to what feels like the far North.

Here are some pics from our new world:

My favorite Berlin tower, seen through the lid of a trash can

The day Lucy joined us. She looked like a cross between a rat and a Chihuahua, and I wasn't that excited about her. But seeing that she was Eva's birthday present (and subsequently her choice) I didn't say anything. And by now she has of course totally won me over!

In the new apartment, still with hardly any furniture (see my fabulous cardboard cupboard!). We left most of our stuff in Namibia and only took some suitcases with clothes.

Her favorite summer spot, the balcony table. As we are on the second floor I fnd that rather nerve racking...

At a lake near Berlin (this was of course last summer, by now the lake is probably frozen solid)

Eva's room, after some foraging in the neighborhood second hand stores

Taking a bath used to be so relaxing. Now I have little missy here getting really worried that I drown. Or maybe she just doesn't like me out of cuddling range. In any case, the moment I get into the tub, she whines...