Endurance sports, specifically jogging, is an integral part to my self-assessment processes and thinking things thoroughly through. The more devastating hence my broken fibula late 2017 and the then diagnosis to never be able to jog again. But that has luckily changed.
The idea going to Cap Verde was being somewhere in the sun during winter and not being obliged flying to for 12 hours. I wanted to spend my 50th birthday with my family at a place, none of us had been before. So, sunny temperature, not too far away for reaching it within a limited laps of time plus an unknown place: we opted for the Cap Verdes … well ……
When travelling Denmark on a bicycle, it is good to know and be aware about a few things prior to departure in order to not experience bad surprises. It is definitely worth cycling round Denmark, but be prepared….
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The Camargue is one of the French regions I somehow always knew about and wanted to go, but never got my head together going there. Now the time was ripe, I had the opportunity to stop over in this beautiful place and hence did so….
Since back in February an infection caught in Kenya and being unable to perform any physical activity since, now being remedied, I went straight for a challenge: cycling from Cologne to Hamburg. Reaching out for fresh air, pumping up my lungs but also wondering if after six months of inactivity I would be able to make it….
As usual, when being on a trip, I try to combine business and private. This time I had the chance to visit the primeval forest in Białowieża, the last of it’s sort in Europe. Definitely worth a visit!…
Again, I travelled to England. For the first time since the Brexit vote which I personally took very emotional. I was wondering, what the general mood would be “over there” and how things will be seen and considered….
Cycling around a country almost as big as Germany and France combined but with hardly more than 3.000 kilometres of overland tarmac roads is not necessarily the first idea coming to your mind when thinking of how to stay in and travel around Namibia, but I opted for this alternative and had lots of fun….
After a 3-year absence it was time again to go to Tunisia. Despite the current terror attacks and prevailing national issues I had no worry to go. After being there in my eyes Tunisia really turned for the better, but local opinions are widespread and differ a lot from each other….
England is one of my favourite countries. I was living there twice, Bristol and London. This summer I have returned here for the first time in years….
