Posts from year 2012
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Driving through Death Valley
There are places in the world that don’t care if you’re there. Death Valley is one of them. This infamous area of harsh territory is located in Eastern California, in the northern part of the Mojave Desert.
The silver screen memory of Los Angeles
It feels good to be back in Los Angeles, the city of angels, devils and Hank Moody. Even though I started the morning by dipping my pale toes in the Pacific at Malibu, I’m not doing Venice this time around.
Review: Urban Safari
If you prefer to spend your vacation on a sunny beach instead of walking through crowded cities, this book is not for you. This is a love story about the big cities in the world.
Halloween ten years later
Tonight the annual Halloween parade was planned to roam through Greenwich Village in New York as usual, but it has been cancelled due to the emergency situation in wake of hurricane Sandy. I guess somewhere Jack Skellington cries out in agony.
The footsteps of Mozart in Vienna
Vienna is the imperial jewel of Europe, dripping in Baroque opulence and the scent of old money. It’s the kind of place where the ghosts of white wigs and powdered noses still linger in the alleyways.
Alive in Bratislava
When the kids in the movie Eurotrip arrived in Bratislava, they frightfully whispered “Dear sweet mother of god, we’re in eastern Europe”. Well, I’m in Bratislava today and for the record, it’s nothing like the that scene. No angry dogs, severed hands or dodgy characters.
Inspirational travel writers
Some people in the travel industry are well-known from television series where they travel around the world. But this time I would like to focus on the not so well-known faces of the traveling sphere.
Tim Ferriss and the digital nomad movement
Tim Ferriss is the author of The 4-Hour Workweek, first published in 2007. After his speech at SXSW the same year, the word quickly spread through the blogosphere and the book soon became extremely popular among aspiring digital nomads.
Meeting the robots at Way Out West 2012
Time for another year at Way Out West, the cozy and predictable festival in the forest. It’s always a bit of a challenge to have an early slot at a festival, since people tend to arrive later in the afternoon.
Amphi Festival in Cologne
Cologne in July. Most people come for the cathedral, the river cruises, maybe a Kölsch or two. Me? I came for the darkness and industrial noise at Amphi Festival, the annual pilgrimage of the black-clad faithful, where leather is a second skin and daylight is considered an occupational hazard.