How did the first of four night shifts at a busy emergency clinic feel like ?
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Four nights – Prelude
How does it feel, working four straight nights at a busy veterinary emergency clinic ?……
Just another Metro station…..
A visit to Europe’s most beautiful metro station in Naples, Italy
To Naples….on the hunt for the perfect pizza
On the hunt for the perfect pizza in Naples, Italy.
Karlovy Vary
Join me on a short morning running through 300 years of history of the famous spa town of Karlovy Vary/Karlsbad.
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
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 …