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Baltrum is one of those strange little places you find on Germany’s islands, where nothing much ever happens except for the twice-daily ferry that brings in and carries away the tourists.

We drove to Bremerhaven, very close to where I grew up, to visit the Klimahaus and my father.

Being back at the sea did something to me.

Anna's mother had always dreamed of doing a Wattwanderung, a walk through the Wadden Sea at low tide to one of the nearby islands.

Last time, my hairdresser Ramona and I slightly misjudged both my hair length and the timing between appointments, and I ended up looking like someone who rather enjoys having far too much hair on their head.

In Germany, we have the saying "Man muss die Feste feiern, wie sie fallen", which loosely translates to "You have to celebrate the good times as they come".

I lied to Anna for her own good, because I’d prepared a little gift for her, and her investigative skills were dangerously close to ruining the surprise.

My reading can sometimes be a little too intense for Anna.

Days like this are the best.

Summer is the best season, no debate needed.

Meetings before 10 AM should be forbidden.

I'm already looking forward to next year!

I love drawing in this journal, but I’d love even more for AI to handle the scanning and editing for me.

Headache days are the worst.

I love winning battles against that inner voice telling me not to do hard things.

This might be my absolute favorite comic from this year of daily comics so far.

Life is more rewarding when you’re invested in things.

I'm very strong.

I don’t know why, but the ending of Disclosure Day made me cry?!

Sometimes quality time together means doing things separately, but side by side.

Please don’t judge my apparently abysmal push-up form.

After that, I actively enjoyed the clean windows for two weeks.

We successfully built everything.

I’ve never understood people who pride themselves on how much heat they can stomach.

This is somehow not as shocking to anyone else as it is to me, but how was this cocktail only invented in 2008?

We will persevere through these challenging times.

Anna’s new kitchen was installed on Monday, and I saw it for the first time on that evening.

I love talking about books with my friends.

My journal entry from two years ago (just a classic text-based journal) ended with me promising myself I wouldn’t spend my birthday alone the following year.

I didn't get engaged that day.

You probably neither noticed nor cared, but UARRR.org has moved newsletter platforms.

The more I think about it, the more AirPods with cameras in the stems make sense to me.

Running intervals offers an interesting contrast.

Today is my 37th birthday!

I turned 37 on that day!

I mentioned the quality of beds in the UK to a few friends, and many agreed that modern sleep technology doesn’t seem to have made it across the Channel.

This was the first vacation I never wanted to end.

Visiting Tower Bridge while melting wasn’t exactly a highlight of this trip, but I’m glad I saw it.

London’s parks are on another level.

We had quite a social day.

Big Ben is far prettier than I expected.

We arrived in London, and I couldn’t have had a better initial impression.

We didn’t have a single day with fewer than 20,000 steps, and after a while, it definitely started to show.

I expected to like Edinburgh more than I did.

What's up with GBP?

I later discovered that Waterstones is just the starting point.

Aaand we're off to the UK.

Packing is the worst.

Hamburg is considering a bid to host the Olympic Games, and the citizens have been voting on it.

It took me quite a long time to realise that I tend to get hangry.