I feel like I need to apologise for my absence. And just as any good apology should be prologued by a good excuse, mine has a joyful one. I am perched behind my keyboard,typing away with a rock on my ring finger, princess cut, surrounded by tens of sparkling diamonds. Yes, we are engaged. And we got that status in the most adventurous and romantic … Continue reading A Thousand Times Over
I have some toothsome news. My fellow blogger, Niusha, and I have decided to collaborate on a little project we came up with while getting excited by the events that will happen in the next three weeks. Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is just around the corner. In exactly one week, we will bid farewell to winter and welcome spring on the Vernal Equinox. This being a rather … Continue reading A Delicious Collaboration (On Under the Indigo Dome)
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I was born on the 26th of December, to a family who does not celebrate Christmas. And although I admire the German Christmas markets and the Glühwein and the smell of cinnamon and baked apple, I cannot connect with this holiday. My years in Bristol and all the childhood memories do not help either. Maybe it’s due to my unparalleled devotion to… Continue reading The Vernal Equinox
Come this April and I have been living in Germany for four years. I would say I have integrated well (though the language is still my White Demon which I need to conquer) and having a half-German boyfriend has fed me details of the culture. Especially if said boyfriend is from Cologne. You see, legend has it that the Germans from Cologne are the friendliest of them all. And … Continue reading “K” is for Karneval… And Köln
When I’m not writing- blogging, writing for my team at work, working on my thesis- I travel… And take pictures. Tim had started Megapixel24 in collaboration with brother-in-law, Alex way before I entered his life. One of the first conversations Tim and I had, (even before our first date) was about photography and the tale-as-old-as-time Nikon Vs Canon discussion. (He’s a proud Canon user, I … Continue reading Megapixel24; A Little Photography Project
I spent the Christmas holidays in Köln, home to one of the most beautiful architectural wonders, the Kölner Dom, and my man. I had not celebrated a German Christmas before and although I knew what to expect, I was overwhelmed with surprise after surprise, of the good kind. I am a Christmas baby and the mere thought of spending my birthday in Germany sends chills … Continue reading A Christmas Dip
I wasn’t born in a Christian family, yet Christmas has been special to us for two reasons. We moved to England when I was barely 7 and being lucky enough to have parents that embraced other religions and customs, we decorated Christmas trees, hung stockings and received gifts. This never took away from the excitement and delight of our Persian New Year’s celebration- Nowruz- a … Continue reading Winter Wonderland; German Christmas Markets
In my last post I laid out a brief introduction of the fashion experience in Germany. Dating a German-Spaniard who is fond of reds and greens and blues but can also rock black successfully, I have to admit I got the better end of the deal; a German with all the German merits who pays attention to style. While having a conversation about the very … Continue reading Live, Laugh, Learn; Style (Part II)
(For more info on the Live, Laugh, Learn series go to my website, Under The Indigo Dome.) Germans are good at many a thing, planning events, punctuality, contributing a large sum of their income to tax and social security, making cars, making engineers, making beer, making anything really, to name a few stereotypical examples. Yet they fail to astonish me, and many other non-Germans when it comes to a … Continue reading Live, Laugh, Learn; Style (Part I)
Last weekend I got asked to photograph an event at the local Standesamdt (the City Hall) where my Persian friend married her German-English husband. She asked me at her bachelorette party, where booze was present and male strippers were not. I was shoving my Nikon in its carrier as we were stepping out into the surprising warm November air, protected from the Heidelberg breeze by coats donned over our … Continue reading Popped the Event Photography Cherry
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