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 – […]

Patagonia – here I come again – for the third time. This time I visited only Northern Patagonia. The trip can be devided into completely different Parts: Mountains: Bariloche / Trevelin / Los Alerces National Park Wildlife at the Atlantic coast: Rockhopper Penguins in Puerto Deseado / Magellanic Penguins at […]

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 […]

Destination for this years Easter Holidays was Amsterdam. Instead of a hotel (Amsterdam is super expensive) I booked a flat overlooking the Damrack (little station where the Grachten cruises start) in the middle of the old city which was a great choice. We were welcomed with wine and chocolate and […]