HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!

Chinese New Year is starting and as much I would love to stay in HK and celebrate it here, I decided to go to Milan to visit my friends in Italy and Switzerland.
But here some pictures of the colorful symbols and decoration of Chinese New Year:

I was told, that the chinese name for "fish" has the same pronunciation like "left over". So.. as I understood the fish is for the new year a symbol for your savings (money or other things) from the last year. I like it :)

You can buy nice decoration; in fact the whole City, every building and every office are decoratet
and I couldnt resist to buy some thins in my favorite color.

The comming year (starting 0n 26.1.) is the year of the ox.
http://pinoybusiness.org/2008/11/04/year-of-the-ox-2009-predictions-and-forecast/

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Wiebke und Debora

Besser spaet als nie :) kurz vor Abflug nach Deutschland bzw. China

Germany

Since I m back from my holiday in Germany end of December, I had no time to write. It was so good to see my family and friends again. Some of my friends I havn't seen for 2 years. The only thing I didn't see was snow!!! One day after I left it started to snow and in my home village it was even 1.5 m high. I m only glad, it wasn't that cold (until -25 degrees) when I was there; although I was freezing all the time. Here some pics of my friends:

Forest without snow :(

Chemnitz