Wie man sich in Köln verliebt – Eine Anleitung

Die Stadt und ich hatten in 2008 einen eher schwierigen Start. In meinem ersten Winter hier in Köln verabschiedete sich meine Heizung zu einem Zeitpunkt, als die Temperaturen unter -10 °C fielen. Zwei Wochen nach dem Umzug musste ich daher meine neue, 25 qm kleine Wohnung mit meinen 4 Herdplatten beheizen. Mein Vermieter war derweil…

How to fall in love with Cologne -A Guide

  The city and I had a rather rough start in 2008. In my first winter here the heating system broke just when temperatures started to drop below -10 degrees. As a consequence, I had to heat my apartment with the 4 cooktops of my stove. Fortunately by that time my apartment had the manageable size…

Working with FairMail

It is now approximately 3 months that I am back from Peru and I cannot even count ahow many times I´ve been asked: “So, how did you like Peru?”. Located within 3 different landscapes the country is 3,598351476056086 times bigger than Germany. According to Wikipedia and my calculator. It not only inhabits the spring of the Amazonas,…

Traveling with Scoliosis

One of things I’ve noticed is the lack of blogs with travelers who have some sort of medical condition. I’ve found when I generally speak to others, many who has a medical condition imm… Quelle: Traveling with Scoliosis

The Hardest Part of Travelling that No One Talks About

This piece was not written by myself but I couldn’t have said it better. The words epitomise a strong undercurrent I have been feeling for a while. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it,… Quelle: The Hardest Part of Travelling that No One Talks About

Travelphorography – soccer with the Fairmail team

In Peru I worked with Fairmail. A small organization helping kids to earn money with photography. One day we organized a fun little soccer game with another NGO called Mundo de ninos. A lot of the teenagers in Fairmail are recruited from Mundo de ninos. This day has helped to bring the kids of both…

Travelling with Cystic Fibrosis

I hate it. I hate talking about my medical condition. On the one hand I do not enjoy satisfying people´s curiosity and on the other hand, which is the bigger part, I do not wish to give this sickness any room. I refuse to let it determine my every day live, I refuse to let…

London, Rickman and broken glasses

In the year 2002 I took a quite rickety overland bus drive to London, just to see Alan Rickman in the award-winning British production of Noel Coward’s play „Private Lives“. Having just developed a huge crush on the actor after seeing him in „Sense and Sensibility“, nothing was going to stop me from this live experience….

What to do in Huanchaco

Today it´s been one month that I am living in Huanchaco and once again I am sitting at my favorite place, famous little Chocolate Café. When arriving here on the 28th of February from chaotic, noisy Lima, this quiet little surfer town felt like a huge relieve. The sound of the ocean, the wind blowing…

Peruvian bus rides

Today, for the first time, I have used one of these battered, little VW busses for a drive between Huanchaco and Trujillo and first of all I would like to take the opportunity here to very briefly describe this experience as the following: What. The. Actual. Fuck. These busses are literally the live equivalent to…