Bye Diet, Hi Cioccolata Densa

This December, I have found a new thing to live for. It’s called: Cioccolata Densa. It’s like hot chocolate, but it’s so thick that it may as well be pudding – or „custard“. It’s so decadent. It’s the best. I made Sam take me to „Il Porto“ three days in a row  when  we visited […]

Julia is now Dr Julia

I wasn’t quite sure what to write on my PhD viva. Ohmygod was it traumatizing. So I let ChatGPT do the work for me and it came up with this: „On a chilly November 30th, 2023, Julia strutted into her Ph.D. viva at the University of York, armed with wit and a killer thesis on […]

No More Morning Marathons

The marathons referred to here are the ones we used to do on the holiday  mornings in last year’s  holiday in Mallorca. The ones were you get up and the first thing you do is sprint to reserve yourself the best sunbed using your towel. Because else the Germans (well, other Germans, I guess) come  […]

Our Engagement Photoshoot is here

I felt like a princess. On the 7th of October Sam and I went to Immenstaad to have some pictures taken by professional photographer Eduard Möhrle. We went to the park and pier by the harbour. The autumn colours made for some very romantic scenery. We enjoyed the photoshoot a lot. Now I have around […]

Sam is now Dr Sam!

… and (a little) unemployed. After 3.5 years of painstaking lab work – involving hundreds of dead mice – Sam has successfully defended his PhD thesis on th 8th of July 2022. In his PhD, he investigated the role of a thing on another thing which will help some fat people die of something other […]