Vegetarian Food in Portugal
The last few times I was in Portugal, it was quite challenging to find delicious vegetarian or vegan food. Granted, you will always get some kind of arroz com legumos or a really crappy pizza, that tastes absolutely bland, but at least fills your stomach. But it’s not tasty and is not really nice a…
San Francisco, nice to see you again
Business brought me to San Francisco again, after 11 years. Glad to see that nothing has changed. Just kidding. First of all, impressive international terminal, they’ve really done a good job. Hats off to the selection of merchants (good chocolate, good coffee!) and the fantastic Polaris lounge. What a pleasant experience! đ Also, extremely efficient…
Unesco World Heritage Steel Works Völklingen
Fantastic excursion to the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Völklingen Steel Works. Glad that these dirty machines ain’t running no more, though, but also a fascinating piece of very recent history.
Stralsund knows where it’s at
Stralsund, ich mag dich! Nette Stadt, nette Leute, schöne Gegend. đ Entenhausen forever.
BER has gotta die
I might have briefly mentioned it. BER sucks. And that’s really putting it mildly. We have both decided that we will not fly from BER anymore in the future unless it is a business class flight with dedicated priority lanes etc. We’d rather travel to Leipzig, Frankfurt, Munich by train and depart from there. The…
Rheinsberg 09/2021
In the meantime, catching up on some old stuff. Some nice pics from our weekend trip to Rheinsberg in September 2021. Lots of mushrooms. Great ice cream, apparently some guy has „invented“ real fruit ice cream here as well now. Well, one man’s invention is another man’s copy … but I won’t complain as long…
La Gomera November 2021
Codename: Gran Culo con Agulo. 151,22km, 6820m ascent, 7090 descent. (Not counting the countless times we walked from Parador de la Gomera down to the city centre and back đ .) Mostly around 20 degrees, sunny with a few clouds, perfect weather for hiking. Warm nights near sea level, more chilly up in the mountains.…
Hate is just a four letter word
I’m writing about Manchester actually. Quite a nice little town I must say. So no hate at all really.We went there last weekend to see Ned’s Atomic Dustbin (and Pop Will Eat Itself) perform at the Ritz, to see an old friend, and to do some sightseeing. Like a last chance to see before the…
Stylez
I think I posted some nice photos from picturesque Leiden, a few k south of Amsterdam, a while ago. Here’s some more, I’m very happy that I get to go there at least a few times more. They have arses with eyes, super cute rat lamps and the lovely Boutique Hotel Huys van Leyden is…
Easter Bunnys
Easter happened quite early this year. And we’d made the decision to go visit the good old British Empire for one last time, before they depart from this world and move to their own fantasy reality. đ So, off to London on Friday, and of course it was raining. More or less all the time.…