Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
In case you’re at London, United Kingdom in mid-November you should check when the start of the Christmas illumination will be. At this point in time they make Regent street a pedestrian zone, start a firework and ignite the lights decorating this major shopping street.
Every two years the local modelling association, Modellbauclub Münden, organizes a modelling and miniature railway exhibition at the Weserberglandhalle belonging to the Hotel Freizeit Auefeld at Gimte, belonging to Hann. Münden, Germany. I must admit that I was unsure whether this is an interesting event – but it was fun! Continue reading “Modellbauausstellung”
The 9th of November is an important day for Germans (often referred to as ‘Schicksalstag der Deutschen‘) as many things in younger history happened on this day (including the opening of the Berlin Wall as the last important event in 1989). In 2018 there are two important anniversaries: 100 years earlier World War I ended and there are many festivities concerning this. But it is also 80 years since the Novemberpogrome when synagogues were destroyed throughout Germany and Holocaust started. Continue reading “80 years later”
The small city of Adelebsen, Germany was once a special place for Jewish citizens. At the end of the 17th century they were invited to live there, in the year 1848 around 13 percent of the population was Jewish. That’s why Adelebsen has been called ‘small Jerusalem‘ sometimes.
Continue reading “Am Steilhang”
Last year we decided to fly to Mallorca, Spain for the Easter holidays. It was wonderful and of course there was the request to just get back to this island. But as I love to discover new places we decided to search the same experience on a different island: Sardegna. We were immediately warned that tourism works different there; but it was also a great experience and a very friendly environment. Continue reading “Southern Sardegna”
Traveling to Sardegna is a pretty easy thing and you don’t need too many language skills. Most times you can communicate in English, some staff in our hotel also spoke German. Only one time in a very remote location I had to rely on my minor knowledge of the Italian language. Only when you look at the names of places you can see that there is another language spoke on the island: Sardinian.
Continue reading “Sardinian language”
The south of Sardegna is closer to Africa than to Roma, Italy and therefore you have a special flora and fauna there. You can see giant African snails, many lizards, big grasshoppers and dragonflies. In higher areas you will see a lot of macchia and everywhere some special trees unknown from home. Continue reading “Special trees”
If you love Tove Janssons stories of the Moomins in Moominvalley than this shop is for you. Located in the wonderful Covent Garden Market it is just a tiny shop on the upper floor accessible via a narrow wooden staircase decorated with nice images from this Finnish series. Continue reading “Moomins”
Whether or not you like the German Kirmes tradition or not depends on where you grew up. It is quite typical for villages and as I was always living in a city it wasn’t common for me. It typically consists of a fun fair, concerts, a procession of the local associations and bands as well as a breakfast with lots of alcohol in a tent. Continue reading “Groner Kirmes”
For many people it is interesting to find places where something historical happened. And sometimes I have the feeling that this is especially true when it is about dark times. For me as a German it feels a bit strange when people search for traces of Adolf Hitler – at the Obersalzberg, the Wolfsschanze in Poland or at Berlin. Continue reading “Führerbunker”