Join me on a short morning running through 300 years of history of the famous spa town of Karlovy Vary/Karlsbad.
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The straight line is godless
The Upper Palatinate is dull, nothing but dull…. Tucked away in the North of Bavaria, yet devoid of any mountains or other geographical features worth mentioning, resting its quiet and sedate existence somewhere between Munich and Southern Saxony, this area has always been overlooked, just been travelled through and generally been sidelined, if not …
Across the Tyrolean Plateau
A final skiing trip accross the Tyrolean plateau at the end of the winter
Extinct
A journey into the centre of London to meet the main protagonist of an extraordinary book – or what is left of him……
The cutting edge
How a short journey through the Surrey countryside in January and the simple maintenance of a blade can lead to a general perspective of work on the cutting edge….
Elk filet, bearded dragons and state of the art dentistry
I was sitting in Gunnar’s cottage in the middle of the Swedish countryside. A white layer of snow had covered the landscape outside and there were only a few days left until Christmas. Thick chunks of elk filet were frying in a pan, next to green beans from last summer’s harvest, while a potato …
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Insomnia
6 AM, pitch dark outside, the first alarm on my phone goes off and I am switching it to snooze….. 6.05 AM, the second alarm goes off – with the same result…. 6.08 AM, the first repeat alarm goes off…. OK, I give up…., I have to get up…. Getting up early has …
Biblical Beasts
We were at the end of our visit of the veterinary faculty of Perugia, a town with a long Roman and Etruscan heritage. Three months of preparations, five days of inspections, interviews, and team meetings plus a final presentation in the main building of this prestiges veterinary school lay behind us, to find out …
Ana and the Mercury Mine
Ana wasn’t on time – she was five minutes early …. This usually is fine by me, but not after a party with one of Belgrade’s finest rock music bands and a subsequent tour with the die-hards through Ljubljana’s limited, but still surprisingly wild nightclubs, resulting in hardly more than a couple of hours …
Botos-cor-de-rosa
It was when the waters of the Rio Negro tried and failed to mix with that of the Solimões, to form the mighty Amazon, that we saw them for the first time – hunting dolphins, a whole pod of them. These clever mammals were taking advantage of a phenomenon that was once described as …
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