Activity update

It is completely out of doubt, that Markus is more busy again and activity in the EME equity markets has picked up, as he is much more actively travelling again - this week the destination was Frankfurt. The improved environment is something we do like to see, but there is – as always in life – a flipside of the coin: firstly, to leave home and know to not see Jakob for a day or two is pretty cumbersome as each day brings something new in the young life and secondly, the practice sessions for the upcoming Sparkasse half-marathon at Lake Constance is pretty much disturbed. As for the latter: the training programme has been taken less serious all summer since Jakob was born for obvious reason and therefore Markus’ target for next Sunday is: get over the 21km and if the finish line is reached in less than two hours he calls it a real success.

Here the proof for Jakob's statement "I look just like daddy"

The past weekend, yet again with beautiful temperatures, featured a few premieres: In the morning Fritz, Markus’s boss by chance stopped by, met Jakob for the first time and also saw the flat for the first time. Jakob and Fritz understood each other immediately and had lots of fun together. In the afternoon we went for a lengthy shopping tour to

Mariahilfer Strasse with public transport rather than our car and in the evening Kerstin had a night out. Jumping into a beautiful red dress she left the two boy home alone and joined Andrea, our neighbour, for her 50th birthday party. Jakob & Markus did get along basically well, but it needed the help of Kerstin – who dropped in 30 minutes after she left - to get him to fall asleep. Once in the land of the dreams our little lucky Buddha did sleep though for more than 5 hours peacefully.

Jakob, Kerstin & Markus