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October, our second olive harvest
Thank you so much, Bianca, for everything!!! More than a year has passed, and a lot has happened. Elmar and I are now just the two of us, because sometimes friends can't live together. What was certainly a difficult process has turned out well for everyone. Unfortunately, you won't be able to read such fantastic stories anymore, as writing is Cornelia's special talent. However, we will keep you updated with more pictures. Video @biancabeppler
elmarbechtold
Nov 71 min read


Spring releases its blue ribbon... or sometimes it doesn't
Spring starts in Albania at the beginning of March - at least that's the theory - because then the nights get milder, the hours of...
elisabt5
Apr 153 min read


Can those eyes lie?
This is my dog, Bela ...and then of course there's her sister Bebja, who belongs to Elmar - both already familiar to loyal readers from...
elisabt5
Apr 155 min read


Useful and less useful knowledge when travelling by car in Albania... or: Why does the goat ride on a robot hoover?
Christmas has passed, the family has left and apart from minor projects that we tinker with from time to time, not much is happening at...
elisabt5
Apr 156 min read


From out there, from the forest I come... (the first line of a German Christmas poem)
Today is the 3rd Advent, and yes, it has become cooler and very autumnal here too. But even though we are heading towards Christmas with...
elisabt5
Apr 153 min read


Olive harvest
With a little delay, here come the impressions of our first olive harvest. The last few weeks have been so jam-packed - quite literally...
elisabt5
Apr 153 min read


Finally light at the end of the tunnel...
I haven't written anything for quite a while... and for good reason... because the last two and a half months had been a really difficult...
elisabt5
Apr 155 min read


brick by brick...
After a month of dealing with all my own emigration formalities (i.e. the German bureaucracy regarding cancelling things, giving notice,...
elisabt5
Apr 152 min read


Gone to the dogs
These are Xeni and Pipo. When Andrea called me in September 2021 and said they had found the perfect place for our project... in...
elisabt5
Apr 144 min read


...but it would be nice if pulling on it could help...
On the 30th of April, Andrea and Elmar sat in their cars after work, completely packed with all the necessities that one would need until...
elisabt5
Apr 145 min read


The grass doesn't grow any faster if you pull on it...
Half a year has passed since the launch of bilbil-e-palloi. Half a year in which I didn't dare to touch this website at first. Because...
elisabt5
Apr 143 min read
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