I'm back home from yet another visit.
I have quite a few things to write about, but I'll start at the beginning.
So I took the nighttrain there for the first time. It's more expensive but I only had to change trains once, in the next bigger city. So from 10pm to 10am I could basically sleep. It was the first time in my life I was in a couchette coach and it was a Russian train (Basel - Moscow!) so the conducter people didn't speak anything but Russian (or if they did, they didn't let it on), which is sort of weird considering I was going from Germany to Poland I shared the compartment with a Polish couple, though so I didn't feel that lost. (I learnt Russian, but that wasn't very successful)
It was a good experience all in all, though. I woke up for a bit in Berlin, because they connected our wagon with another engine and other wagons or stuff and it almost throw me out of the couchette.
I discovered that there even was a sink and since I was alone in the compartment for the last 3 hours, I could brush my teeth and do my hair, before I arrived It was definitely worth €55 and I might go for the Russian night train option again.

On my first night there we went to the 20th anniversary celebration of a foundation I did an internship with last year. We met lots of our friends (that we didn't know would be there) and there was free food and wine The others went for drinks afterwards, but my boyfriend wasn't feeling so well so we headed home.

The weekend we went to another city (Lodz!) for a concert and some 'sight seeing' with my boyfriend's best friend and his fiancee (haha, I like typing that. He proposed to her like two weeks ago). I had heard different things, mostly negative ones, about the city, but I was surprised. It's beautiful. There's a lot of 19th century industrial buildings. Most of them are in rather bad condition (it's PL after all), but the charm is definitely still visible. They also have (supposedly) the biggets Jewish cemetry in Europe, that I totally wanted to see... but we went there on a Saturday and apparently Jewish cemetries are closed for visitors on Saturdays (who knew?). It looked really impressive from the outside, though. I definitely want to go there again to see it.
And I enjoyed talking to his friends I have no one to discuss wedding related stuff, because my friends aren't really planning anything in that direction, so it was really good to have someone to discuss photographers and locations with and not get 'the look'. We plan to get married in January 2015 (we were looking at 2014, but we'll both be finishing our studies then and planning a wedding and writing a thesis might not be a good combination), so we still have some time left, but we'll have an international, inter-confessional wedding so that takes some time to plan.
I've totally been looking at wedding dresses lately. I love lightinthebox.com (no, they don't pay me) for inspiration and to see that a wonderful dress doesn't have to cost a fortune.
I love
this,
this
and possibly this. I've always wanted a knee-length wedding dress, but I'm not so sure it'll fit with a winter scenery (although I'm obviously getting something like this coat to wear over it).

Oh well, I'd better stop that before I get carried away.
To make a longish story short, I got back at 8am today (after a night in a recliner coach and having to change trains at 4:40am!), went home, showered and headed to uni for a meeting at 10am. Tomorrow I have a class from 10am - 4pm (wtf?!). I got soo much for for the weekend today, classes start next week and I have no idea which ones I need to/can take. Ugh.
20 days until he'll be here with me!

And I bought tickets for January today! 99€ for a return Thurs-Sun is quite a good deal. Yay!


If you've read all this, you must either be very bored or brave.