Todays plan – a circle from Douaumont to Reims and Auberive after that over Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus to Sainte-Menehould. Visit a few more cemeteries and see some French country side. Douaumont Ossuary A memorial build within the Verdun battlefields. It contains more than 130.000 fallen soldiers of the French and German side. In front of the memorial…
A few weeks after my short trip to the US I was very happy to go on a short trip to France for a few days. I had no exact plan only a hotel booked towards Bitche. When I saw a war monument from the first world war I had the idea to look a…
Another Long Man mission. Fly to Chicago and deliver some parts – have a few free days to explore – fly back. I like those kinds of missions. Got a car for 4 days and booked a few nice hotels. Spring was late this year so it was not as green as I hoped for….
Enough of the zigzagging round Europe. Time to see some sunshine and blue sky. Mid November it was – time to fly to BKK. Did book the flight quite early this year after all the cheap offers in my mail box. 528€ with Lufthansa from STR over FRA to BKK. Back BKK over ZHR to…
The rest of the pictures from the last trip to Pilsen or Plzeň. The forecast called for rain so I only took the iPhone 6 to take pictures – and it did not rain and I was not happy. The quality of the pictures is just not the same as with a DSLR. Still the…
Another loooong weekend to burn. This time we went to Pilsen or Plzeň in the Czech Republic.You might wonder why the pilsner type blond lager is called Pilsner – yes the first Pilsen was brewed right here. Pilsner Urquell is the original pilsner and first pale lager beer in the world. The people of the…
Mountains – mountains in fall! Steiner called for a weekend in Oberstdorf to walk and talk and have some beers in the evening. The forecast was looking good so Friday noon we hit the Autobahn and went over the Alb to the Alps! Arrived in the early afternoon so we walked a bit. Traditional house…
Lago di Resia or Lake Reschen After a good breakfast at Apart Pension Bergfrieden in Nauders we pointed the car south towards Riva del Garda and crossed the border to Italy. The fourteenth century bell tower of Graun is all you can see from the village after the dam construction. The Swiss company Elektrowatt wanted…
Coming back from Heidelberg I was still not motivated to start working. A few days more – only a few please. So I asked my boss and he was not really happy but in the end he said: Yes. Great! (It really does help when you are your own boss!) Heike was never at the…
Back in Stuttgart from the Summer 2016 trip and the sky was blue, the sun was out and it was warm – very warm. Could not really start to work with such nice Fall weather. Julie and Kaveh where in Heidelberg to visit family. A good excuse to run from work for a week. Took…
Trpanj is a small village in south-eastern Croatia. My father bought a house at the beach many moons ago. Melissa spend many summer holidays there and she decided to get married there as well. That is why we are here now – the last stop of this Summer Trip. Statue of Maria at the harbour…
Today we get to the final destination of this trip: The Peljesac peninsula. And we are here for a wedding. On the way we stopped to look at famous Počitelj in Bosnia and Herzegovina and at the War Monument on the peninsula 15 years after the war ended one still finds evidence of it everywhere….