London ... for the first time again.

I’m having a nice problem these days. Life is moving faster than I can type. I like when life moves so fast I have to sprint to catch up. At the same time I enjoy writing the details in a life that when I look back I am wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety. Obviously the former explains my 3-month hiatus of this blog.

I spent Christmas and New Years with Ingrid traveling Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden and Copenhagen). I come back to Berlin, my home away from home, to find out I don’t have that either. Luckily I have good friends. Gabriele has been my Italian brother ever since I arrived to Berlin. We both get care packages from our parents. Mine usually includes peeps, candy corn or whatever the candy of the holiday is plus some other hard to find goodies like Cheese Whiz, dill pickles and what not. Meanwhile Gabriele gets huge vats of the newest olive oil or other such Sicilian produce. Anyway, I digress.

I was just looking for a place to sleep when Gabriele comes to give me that and a whole lot more. The couple weeks I stayed with him showed me just how great our bond was. He gave me so much clarity on my life … and I totally new perspective on live. I can’t thank him enough for all his support.

While staying with Gabriele I did some traveling. I had the perfect opportunity to meet Ingrid in London !-!-! Naturally when you mix 1 part Ingrid, 1 part Chris and a dash of adventure WATCH OUT !-!-! Even before we met Ingrid had an amazing story about her visa … but we’ll leave that for another day.

Ingrid arrived a couple hours before me. We met at our overpriced undersized room by the Thames. I got goose bumps every time I looked at the London map because of my ‘Mr. X’ flashbacks (just wanna give quick shout out to my peep’s Marcelo and Kerstin !).


I’ve been in / through London countless times, but hadn’t done the tourist circuit in a long while. Ingrid, Baby Pooh and I had such a good time! Despite seeing London before, its always so beautiful to see it through the eyes of Ingrid. She has such a unique and intriguing why of looking at things. New firsts included a visit to a flea market and various places seen in the movie ‘Notting Hill’