2014 I was sitting in the breakfast room at Randy‘s place in Banaue in the Philippines. Kathleen from Fredericton was on vacation with her daughter Alexondra. Crazy Canadian woman that has not too much time to travel so she is always in a hurry. They rented a driver to go to Batad (check the pictures…
Before South East Asia was calling I slipped in a six weeks Canada Trip with a small Maine loop. To be fair – the Canada Trip was apart from a night in Toronto only a New Brunswick & Nova Scotia trip. Took the fast ICE train to Frankfurt to spend a night at Alexandra’s place….
Since the Greek is from an island it is only fair to put him on the water to finish the trip in a nice way. And so we did – on the Lake Constance. Kloster Birnau Look how small he is! The sky is so so – but this is the last weekend to rent…
Today in the evening we crossed the border to Austria. Booked a room in a small hotel in the mountains. Turned out that it belongs to a Dutch couple that got it a few years ago. We where the only guests and the place were really quiet. They made us a Pizza and after two…
Second part of pictures from my trip down to the lake in Summer 2017 This house was build in 1204 – painted with a scene from the old Fish Market Dark clouds over Reichenau House at Seestrasse in Konstanz Hotel at Seestrasse in Konstanz Another house at Seestrasse in Konstanz Lonely Nice view On the…
My original travel arrangements did not work out so I asked Anja if she could give me shelter for the first two weeks of August. She has her place inside the old part of Konstanz “at the lake” as we like to call Lake Constance. Got a confirmation a few minutes later and booked my…
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….
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…
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…
Part 2 of my Tourist Day in Berlin. We pick it up where we left in Part 1. Humbold University Friedrich II – he does look lost? I guess it is Hermes Russian Embassy The British Embassy Lots of things going on in front of the Brandenburg Gate Why not? He is not a happy…
Got to Berlin late afternoon. Had to cross half the city to get to Andy’s place. I did meet Andy about half a century ago on an island in Thailand. More or less we do meet every winter somewhere and he did visit me in Stuttgart as well. Time to pay him a visit in…