Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
A Warft is an artificial hill at the sea protecting houses during storm floods. They are like islands without water surrounding them. I once was living on one for New Year’s Eve vacations. It was the Eggenswarft close to Ockholm, Germany. Continue reading “Eggenswarft”
It was one of these autumns when I decided to plan a trip to Poland and convinced my brother to join me in. We booked the Berlin-Warszawa-Express from Berlin, Germany with a stop at Wrocław. The train ride itself was an experience with different long stops within Polish no-men’s-land – because there is partially only one track and we had to let trains going westbound pass. Continue reading “Via Wrocław to Warszawa”
In 2011 the soccer club Mainz 05 needed a new stadium and it was built in Mainz-Bretzenheim, outside of the city center of Mainz, Germany. It is located on a field with nothing surrounding it. If you get there by car you’re requested to park at the fair grounds – which you might be searching for a while.
Continue reading “Feuerwurst in No Man’s Land”
After visiting Japan and enjoying the totally different situation in a country that was locked-up for hundreds of years I was looking for another very interesting location. Guided by the fascination for the Cuban revolution and the remains of the Cold War I decided to fly to La Habana, Cuba. Continue reading “Hasta la victoria siempre”
The island of Cuba offers different good drinks – and I don’t mean the local Bucanero beer or tuKola (which I both like). You’ll have to try the Daiquiri at its birthplace, the El Floridita. You can try pure rum at the Museo del Ron Havana Club in La Habana, Cuba. Or you choose the iconic Cuba libre; a longdrink made of cola and rum, served with lime. Continue reading “Cuba Libre”
Cuba is a paradise for lovers of old US-American cars. Everywhere you can see old Chryslers, Chevrolets and Fords cruise the country. If you call a taxi it might by a trip 60 years into the past. During the Cold War the US created a trade embargo in 1960 and the people kept and repaired their classic cars. Continue reading “Ride a Chevrolet”
Besides a lot of normal roads – sometimes in quite bad condition – there are also motorways on Cuba. Gasoline is very expensive for the local population and the people use busses and lorries for transport; in villages also horses and carriages. For tourists there is a special kind of gasoline available at the limited gasoline stations you should have on a map. Continue reading “Lonesome motorway”
I’ll never forget the Sierra del Escambray in Cuba. Because of the wonderful nature there and because I nearly killed my Peugot 206 rental car. I had to cross this mountainous region – more then once used as a hideout for guerilleros – to get to the city of Trinidad. Continue reading “The Sierra and the Peugeot”
Travelling to Cuba brings you the strange situation that within the country two currencies are circulating: CUP and CUC. The Cuban peso (CUP) is the actual currency of Cuba, divided into 100 Centavos. As it is a weak currency, the US dollar was used in addition on the island. Continue reading “One country, two currencies”
It was an easy decision: when one of my favorite scientific conferences decided to hold the annual meeting in a hotel at the shore of wonderful Lago di Como, I wrote and submitted a paper. Some days in advance I took a flight to Milano, Italy and went with a rental car to the south.
Continue reading “Firenze, Toscana, Pisa, Cinque Terre, Milano and Lago di Como”