Links

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- Baby and Children -

Baby Name Wizard – Explore baby name trends visualy

Geburtshaus Terra Alta – Very nice birthing house, were we spent the first days with Keagan

hug a bub baby sling – We love their baby sling. Keagan spends every day a few hours in it

Literacy Center Education Network – Great website to learn colors, shapes, letters numbers etc.

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- BBQ -

AskaButcher

The Naked Whiz!

Komodo Kamado Grills – The ultimate bbq grill

Komodo Kamado Forum – Great information source for bbq

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- Blogs -

Beautifulvenditti – our friend Tamar writes about the craziness of the everday life as a mother of four kids

Dilbert blog – Always very funny and enspiring

Guy Kawasaki – He knows stuff

Joy of tech – geek humor

Mighty Goods – Goods you never really needed till you saw them on the page

Swissmiss – A Swiss designer in NY

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- Food and cooking -

Encyclopedia of Spices – Just about everything you need to know about these little wonders

Food timeline – History of food

Köstliches für Kenner – Best cakes on the Planet!

Reichmuth von Reding – Our tea source and other delicious stuff

Rezeptsammlung – German recipe database. More than 32000 recipes!

Whimsy & Spice -  Brooklyn Confectioners with handmade sweets with a dash of spice

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- Friends and relatives -

beautifulvenditti.ch – our friend Tamar writes about the craziness of the everday life as a mother of four kids

catflap.com.au – Maurice Giacomini’s website

corinne.li – Corinne Harder’s website

kloterarch.ch – Adrian Kloter’s website

linder-wenger.com – Brigitte Linder’s website

macmartin.li – Martin Elliker’s website

malkeller.net - Gianluca’s painting studio for children

rubik.ch – Rubik’s website

ruflin.com – Nicolas Ruflin’s website

schiavo.ch – Vito Schiavo’s website

screenpix.ch – Noe Marti’s website

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- Fun -

Archive of misheard Lyrics

Betty Bowers – America’s Best Christian

Jacksonpollock.org – be creative

Joecartoon

hell.capefeare.com – The Ultimate Life in Hell Website (Matt Groening’s first work). Check out the comic strips!

Mitch Hedberg Random Quote Generator – This page generates a random quotes of Mitch Hedberg (very funny US-comedian, who died in 2005)

Murphy’s laws and corollaries

Museum of Bad Album Covers

Theonion.com

thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com – The URL speaks for itself

Uncyclopedia.org – Very funny twin brother of wikipedia

Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974

Wissenschaftliche Witze

Zefrank.com – One could spend days on this page

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- Holidays -

Casa Scaparone, Scaparone, Alba – The most adorable place in Piemont. Super nice people and food!

CIA World Fact Book – A good source to get more informations to your holiday destination

Clift Hotel, San Francisco – A great hotel experience

Cradle Mountain Lodge, Tasmania – A real paradise for nature and wellness friends

Couchsurfing – Just a brilliant idea to improve your travel experience and find new friends. Probably the thing that changed our lives most in recent years except for our cute little son.

Dublin House Inn, Port Fairy - A very nice place to stay for a night and enjoy a lovely dinner

Grandhotel Giessbach – A superromantic Art Nouveau hotel perfectly situated above Lake Brienz

Hapimag – We’re member of this holiday company and have already enjoyed stays in Bad Gastein (Austria), Bodrum (Turkey), La Madrague (France), London, New York, Nysted (Denmark), Paris and Sarasota (Florida). It was always very nice.

Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, Florida – See the supercute Manatees under water in a very nice environement

Jekyll Island Club Hotel- A very special place. Feels like a journey 100 years back! Very relaxing!

Lonelyplanet – The most fun-to-read travel books

Therme Vals – Our favorite relaxing-place in Switzerland

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- HPV -

Bentrider Online – Interesting American info site

Liegerad Forum – Very informative German forum

Velokraft – Superlight and very nice looking carbon bikes (I have one from them)

Weight Weenies – Bike parts forum

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- Knowledge -

Abkuerzungen.de – German shortforms dictionary

BBC on this day – What happened in history on a specific day of the year

Discogs.com – A user-built database of music information

Erlanger Liste – Lexica, encyclopedia and database link-collection

Godchecker.com – Explore ancient myths, and discover Gods of everything from Fertility to Fluff with the fully searchable Holy Database Of All Known Gods.

Leo.org English – Leo English-German Dictionary

Leo.org French – Leo French-German Dictionary

Music-map.com – The map of music

Periodic Table of Videos

Urbandictionary.com – A slang dictionary with your definitions

Zeno.org – The largest online-library in the german language-area

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- Music -

Madeleine Peyroux – A musical timemachine to the first half of the twentieth century

Mich Gerber – double bass meets electronic – very meditative

Peter Gabriel – The one and only! Very impressive website

Regina Spektor – A lovely melting pot of styles

Wir sind Helden – The best musical export from Germany

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- Restaurants -

TripAdvisor – Our restaurant and hotel reviews

Anissa, New York – Contemporary, elegant dining with an adventurous spirit

Blue Hill, New York – Very inspired New American cooking based on “exquisitely fresh” seasonal ingredients.

Boathouse, Isle of Palms, SC – a great place for Seafood with a great view

Bertahof, Bad Gastein – The ultimate “Spannferkel” experience

La Clé d’Or, Bursinel – Lovely restaurant and hotel at Lake of Geneva

Farnsburg, Ormalingen – Great pork and buffalo meat

Hirschberg, Zürich – The best Risotto in town. Ivan and Cathrine are the most brilliant hosts

Il Casale, Wetzikon – Our favorite restaurant in Switzerland

Il Centro, Priocca D’Alba – Fantastic food with a great value for money

Jägerhof, St. Gallen – Probably the best female cook in Switzerland. Food is all organic. The wine selection is amazing.

Kiasu, London – Great cuisine that derives its influence from The Straits (of Malacca) and its Far Eastern neighbours. Very low prices!

La Palapa, Puerto Vallarta – Not only the food but also the setting of this place is just amazing. We fell completely in love with it and went again and again. Best thing is to go already in the morning and get one of the beach tables of the beach club. Afterwards enjoy the lovely brunch, lunch and the amazing margaritas.

Magill Estate, Adelaide Australia – Restaurant of Penfolds wine. Perfect view and great food.

Marvista, Longboat Keys Florida – We have to get back there. Delicious deep fried calamari!

Peter Luger Steakhouse, New York – The ultimate steak!

Roy’s Restaurant – Hawaiian Asian fusion cusine! A really unique experience!

Schiller, Bietigheim – Lovely restaurant and hotel near Stuttgart

SeeWee Restauran, Awendaw SC – The ultimate place for southern food. Absolute must if you are close to Charleston.

Virgil’s real BBQ, New York – Fantastic BBQ experience

White Chocolate Grill – An amazing contemporary American restaurant with branches in Phoenix, Denver and Chicago. Very nice atmosphere and really great food

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