Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
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.
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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”
For years I’ve been buying high prized paper tickets on the London Underground. Mostly because I thought that getting an Oyster card wouldn’t be a good choice for my always short stays in the capital city of England. And I didn’t want to leave too much credit on the card without knowing when I will return. Continue reading “Credit card ticket”
My last real visit to Sweden was more than 20 years ago and it was really time for a trip. In addition we were reading children’s books where the families go to Sweden in their summer holidays. And of course there where the many omnipresent books of Astrid Lindgren. And then we also bought a new Ikea kitchen. So we decided to have a kind of Swedish summer this year. Continue reading “Children‘s stories”
There are lots of things you can bring home as a souvenir from holidays. This year I decided to get a new windshield in Sweden. A small stone must have hit the glass directly next to the frame so we didn’t see it – until from one moment to the other a 50 centimeters long crack appeared in front of the steering wheel. I never had that before. Continue reading “Vindruta”
Before Sweden joined the European Union in 1995 the food prices were so high in comparison that families on holiday loaded their cars with everything that could be taken there without cooling it permanently. Cereals, sausages and juice was simply taken from home.
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