For this year’s Easter Sunday we had a very early start to travel to the “Sächsische Schweiz”, a region in Saxony renowned for its many natural sandstone formations. One of the most visited of those is known as “Die Bastei”, and you have to be early to avoid the masses of visiors flooding this rather […]
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Similar to last year, I spent some weeks in and around the small settlement of Nikkaluokta in Swedish Lapland to work/help out and also for some skiing vacation. Getting there: My plan was to arrive in Nikkaluokta just in time for the big get together of staff and locals at the Kebnekaise mountain station. However, this […]
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People often ask me, what drives me to visit Sápmi (called Lapland by some), in particular the regions North of the Arctic Circle, again and again. I just returned back to Germany after some weeks in Nikkaluokta in the northernmost part of Sweden. And many people again ask me “Why? Why would anyone go there […]
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A couple of days ago I was lucky enough to spend the weekend in Switzerland, close to the German border. Unfortunately these days most parts of central Europe are free of snow, even though it is deep winter. Temperatures even exceed +15°C. Spring-like temperatures this time of the year: absolutely depressing – at least for […]
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The aircraft carrier USS Intrepid was first commissioned in 1943 and has seen several modernisations since. Besides fighting action in various wars, the Intrepid also played role as a capsule recovery ship for space missions. Today the carrier serves as a museum ship on the Hudson River and is docked at Pier 86 in Manhattan. […]
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Almost 14 years after my last city trip to New York I finally made it back to Manhattan. Unfortunately in recent years I only made it to NYC to change planes, so I never had the time to really visit the city. But this time I was there as a “support team” for the 2013 […]
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