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Our little fallout shelter

2011-10-03T15:59:12+02:00

Based on a fallout shelter from the times of the cold war is the building complex where we live. The shelter itself is still functional, even though not equipped with food or other material you'd certainly like to have when you're locked in in there.

Today, the upper floor serves as a garage. The basement, the inner section where the radioactive protection area is, serves as storage room for tenants. Even since its not in active use, yet we still have special rules that not all space may be used for storage - you can see these rules are not always followed:)

Weekend in Dresden

2011-08-20T12:39:13+02:00

During summer Marie and me had planned to visit a colleague of her, Romy, and Micha which live in Dresden over a weekend; eventually we settled to go there on a weekend in late August - coincidentally this weekend was when the city's birthday celebrations took place, a fact that made the city's streets even more crowded than they are on a summer's weekend.

Brenden 2011

2011-08-05T21:13:20+02:00

This year again, like in as 2009 a bunch of friends went to Brenden into the house of Julia's family. We arrived on Friday evening, just in time to have some Spaghetti, then drink wine. On Saturday, the whole group had a nice long & late breakfast and then went out to the H�sli and the Rothaus Brewery from where we started a 5km walk.

New Zealand 2011

2011-05-02T08:49:47+02:00

On May 1st 2011, Marie and me started our trip to New Zealand - at the other end of the world. Literally being Germany's antipode, this trip took us nearly three full days to get there, flying Malaysian Airlines including a 15-hour-stopover in Kuala Lumpur.

Visit to former military base Hornisgrinde at night

2010-10-21T21:14:39+02:00

Timm and Mike had invited me to join them on doing night photography on the Hornisgrinde, on a set of decayed buildings which formerly had been part of a military base.
Although whether in Karlsruhe was not too bad, we found the summit - if you can call it that - already below a layer of snow. So - interesting but difficult conditions for good pictures, see yourself.

Hiking in the "Dahner Felsenland"

2010-10-03T10:53:59+02:00

On October 3rd, Marie and me drove to Dahn in Rheinland-Pfalz together with Marie's parents. The area there is known as the "Pf�lzer Wald" - but you could also call it Mushroom Country; see why in the picture series. We first hiked up the hill next to the village to the so called Jungfernsprung, then over to the R�merfels from where we have had a really great view over the area.

C�te d'Azur

2010-09-11T16:11:01+02:00

This year's last "remote" vacation, Marie and me went down to the French Provence, more exact: the C�te d'Azur (engl. French Riviera). As high season was over, we had no problems finding a place to stay and chose a recommended campground, Camp du Domaine. From the campground we went over to Grasse, world capital of parfumes, and Cassis, where we took a touristic boad ride to the Calanques. For Cassis, we chose the very scenic Route des Cr�tes. Each day of sighseeing was followed by at least one day beach :) .

Bali

2010-06-07T12:32:00+02:00

This year's route took us to Bali; we had planned to stay in three different places - in Manggis, near Candi Dasa, on Bali's east coast, in Ubud, a village in central Bali, and then in Jimbaran, which is in the north area of the southern peninsula on Bali. As we had decided to go to Bali just 3 days before we got there (we actually just paid the day before we left) there was sometimes no big choice in regards to which hotel to stay with, but we were pleasantly surprised about the hotels we then stayed in - see yourself:). We did some 1-day-tours through Bali's east and center and visited some temples and villages we were told to be nice to visit.

Canada 2009

2009-08-22T18:06:21+02:00

This year's big trip took us to great Canada. By motorhome we made our way from Calgary, Alberta, through the Rocky Mountains to Vancouver, the Sunshine Coast, Vancouver Island, Seattle (USA). The way back was planned to pass the Okanagan Valley, again the Rockies and back to Calgary.

Sign of wear

2009-05-17T00:00:00+02:00

This is the backside of my old 3rd generation iPod, lighted by high noon sun. You can clearly see the scratches that have been carved into the metal in daily use. This iPod's been featured before eg. here and here.