Sardinia is an island with many spectacular caves. Two of them I visited, the southeastern Grotto su Marmuri and the mid-south-western Grotto su Mannau. These caves are huge, sporting a roof ceiling of 70 m at the biggest point. The stalactites and stalagmites come in...
Today I decided to combine a necessary and a pleasing activity. I made a time-lapse video of me folding the laundry. Some background info. Movies usually display 24 frames per second, because with this number the human brain can not distinguish between the individual...
Ride the lightning (a Metallica album), catch the rainbow (some Hippie phrase)… mashed together to form this post’s headline. We did a trip to Sardinia. On that trip I wrote several posts on the iPhone, but due to a lack of internet connection I could not...
…it might look like this. There is a German saying which goes “Ich habe schon Pferde vor der Apotheke kotzen gesehen”, which translates roughly to “I have seen horses throw up in front of the...
Three weeks ago we spent an extended weekend in Xanten at the river Rhine. Xanten is about a 1.5h drive from Aachen and has, like Aachen, a rich history connected to the Romans. Xanten was a thriving Roman city of strategic importance its roman name was Colonia Ulpia...
Saturday was the big day. Not only for the happy couple but also for the first-quite- nervous-and-later-on-very-happy me. The king tiger tank of photography, churches, proved to be not so biting than I expected it to be, thanks to thorough preparation. But first...
