This was my second trip to Iceland and I went to many places I have been before. The difference, now was winter! Well if you thought it is super cold up there – wrong. Maybe in the mountains but the coast is under the influence of the golf current. Temperatures […]

After the stressful Christmas time the whole family spend some days in the Bavarian Forrest. The idea was to relax and to do some wintersport but there was no snow at all. Everything related to winter was closed. Instead it was warm and sunny for most of the time – […]

Having more and more cold days and fog at home it is a good time now to escape to northern Italy where it is still warm and (in theory) sunny. Leaving Wednesday noon I did not want a full afternoon of driving so we stopped over in Längenfeld (Ötztal) for […]

Finally – especially after all the stress of moving – it was good to have some days off. I was invited to a friends wedding near Paris (in the Champagne), so I took 2 days off work to stay a night in Metz on the way. Metz is the capital […]

Flying North in wintertime – even above the Artic circle – sounds stupid? It was not. With the right weather it is a real winter wonderland up there. Due to the Golfstream the Lofoten Islands can be warmer than South Germany in wintertime. Plus during the night there is the […]

Helgoland is a small island in the North Sea, about 2-3 hours from the German coast by boat. Some years back there was almost no tourism in winter time but that changed with the Gray Seals (Kegelrobben) appearing on the shores to breed an getting their little babys. Other than […]