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 …
Extinct
A journey into the centre of London to meet the main protagonist of an extraordinary book – or what is left of him……
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 …