After a month at Richard’s parents house in The Netherlands, we found ourselves ready to visit some other parts of Europe. And so commenced a little tour of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France! First stop was Cologne in Germany to visit Katharina and Rainer, my friends from university in Canada.  Since last seeing them in Trier in 2007 a lot had happened:  they’d gotten engaged and then married, moved from Trier to Berlin and eventually Cologne.  And then at the start of this year they had their first baby, a girl named Sofia. Continue reading →