New Years in Freiburg

Dear Readers,

as I always hope, I hope my lines find you well. Please accept my apologies for such a long delay in posting. Lately things have been hectic, lots of emotional ups and downs, sadly not only sun-shiny as most of you know. Now I am happy to catch up with previous postings that have been waiting to be shared with you. One of the most wonderful parts of my visit to Europe around New Years was to be part of the great group of friends that united in the South of Germany for a wonderful New Year party. It was such a good feeling to be connected life again with many of my buddies from old Swiss times, many of which I was missing for a long time. We ate a fabulous dinner, enjoyed much quality time together over discussions and board games and celebrated the start into the new Year with plenty of liquids! I hope the next Years will be equally joyful!

Many thanks to all organizers and travelers involved who made such a great event a possibility!

Hope to see you soon,

Mat

Christmas with the Tietz Clan

Dear friends near and far,

I hope my lines may find you very well. As traditionally we meet the entire family over the Christmas holidays, it so happened that we were hosting both sides of the family on the frist and second day after Christmas Eve. As we have always played together since we were little, we also continued that wonderful tradition with a great round of "the game of life" amongst us four cousins. I truly wish we had more quality time to share like this and I was a little bit more lucky so that next time I may win :-)

All the best of luck for your next board game,

Matti