Your pictures are so pretty! I need to get up the guts to take a lengthy flight and go tour Europe!
That hot chocolate looks like HEAVEN to me, yum-o!
I am amazed at how natural it has been for you to be away from your family, in a whole other country! My husband might be getting transfered to Orlando (this has been a on and off again deal for the last year, first its a definite yes, then they say he is too valuable up here in the DC area- I wish his company would make up their minds!!!!!) and I am so scared to be away from my grandma. I guess it is because I lived at home until right before I got married, like 2 or 3 weeks before, and that is only because I was urged by my family to move then, that it would be easiest for everyone, and I never went away to college, so I don't know what it is like to be away from home...