When I was a kid we went on a family vacation to Tuscany, Italy each year. We never stayed in fancy hotel or took a flight back then. We would drive the whole way down from Germany in our old VW station wagon and stayed at a rustic farm house a friend of my parents owned. For my sister and me this holiday was always a big adventure. We would explore the surrounding countryside with […]
A papaya leave in our garden in Dumaguete (Philippines)
Papaya leaf
Wat Langka in Phnom Penh
Birch trees on a Finnish lake shore last winter
When we traveled to Japan last year our first stop was Tokyo. Since we were dreaming about visiting Japan for years, we were so exited and started to search for good travel recommendation or guide books. We stumbled over a recommendation for the little self-made “Tokyo Guide” by Hello Sandwich somewhere online rather accidentally. Of course we ordered the little book right away. And we really loved it — it gave us so many ideas […]
My photo has been used on the web site fo the Overseas Development Institute to to accompany the announcement of the book launch: Aid on the Edge of Chaos: rethinking international cooperation in a complex world Have a look.
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‘All is Lost’ is a brave movie. How else can be described a movie that has about a half page of dialogue (better said: monologue) and which is launched at a time of big productions, blockbusters, and remakes. I saw the poster of the movie in the London underground last December. Robert Redford battling rough sea and bad weather on a sailing boat. I thought that it may be one of those end of career […]