Reflections of a traveling veterinarian
Rashid’s Lexus had just left Dubai’s alley of skyscrapers and while the silently running air conditioning was keeping an ambient temperature inside the car, we were driving through the desert with the blue water of the Persian Gulf on our right side. About 100 km South of us in Abu Dhabi I was planning to …
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(or when the fine line between architecture and jewellery becomes blured……..) Entering the center of Dubai coming from the international airport, you can’t fail to notice a structure that appears to originate from out of this world and that resembles more an alien spaceship or an oversized piece of beautifully crafted jewellery, rather than a …
“Wolfgang, you have to come to Dubai !” Sitting at a table at the historic fortress of Vysehrad overlooking Prague last June and looking into the dark eyes of Vassiliki Stathopoulou, one of Europe’s foremost veterinary gastro-enterologists and daughter of a Greek business man, I realised that resistance was futile…… Six months later, just 36 …
It doesn’t happen very often in these days of conveyor belt serving multinational coffee chains that people are happy to queue in front of a cafe and wait for the best part of an hour before claiming their seat. This however is not an uncommon sight at 825 Avenida de Mayo in Buenos Aires where …
In front of me, on a blue table top, I am looking at a syringe, three vials of local anaesthetic and the skull of a dog…… Sucking gently through a silver bombilla on his maté, Juan Jose Krauss, the man who introduced veterinary dentistry to Argentina and in fact to many other countries in Latin …
Oh the wind, the relentless wind of El Chalten!….. If I talk about wind, then I mean the sort of wind like you haven’t witnessed it before: constant, gusting, merciless, unforgiving wind that knocks you off your feet, wind that after a while becomes irritating. Wind that can make a fairly undemanding hike in the …
Returning from my hiking trip in the Torres del Paine National Park, I am once again strolling pass the World’s End Bar in Puerto Natales and notice that the dog with the suspected ruptured cruciate ligament hasn’t made a lot of progress. Spending most of the day lying in front of the Bar and checking …
Torres del Paine, an enigmatic national park in Patagonia was one of the reason’s why I finally decided to step away from my clinic in Virginia Water and to organise my life in a very different way. If you want to go hiking in these mountains you will need to put aside at least 3 …
Following a two hour journey through a featureless semi-arid landscape that appears to sustain only the occasional flog of sheep, small groups of guanacos and from time to time a couple of nandus, I am arriving in Puerto Natales. Located on the shores of the Ultima Esperanza Fjord with a view of the snow caped …
It is Monday morning and I am walking along the windswept promenade of Punta Arenas with the Magellan Strait on my right side and Tierra del Fuego visible on the horizon. With the local head quarters of the Chilean Navy behind me, I am passing the cut out prow of the Yelcho and the life …
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