You don’t know what a Merops apiaster is? Well nevermind, I didn’t know the latin name of the bee-eater until five minutes ago either :-). When we planned our road trip to Italy, it was … Read more
Parental leave trip – Part 2
Sorry, only available in German language. You can try to use the machine translation by google – that works pretty good in my opinion You’ll find the translation plugin at the end of the German … Read more
Parental leave trip – Part 1
Sorry, only available in German language. You can try to use the machine translation by google – that works pretty good in my opinion 🙂 You’ll find the translation plugin at the end of the … Read more
What’s crawling there?
The botanical garden attached to the university of Bochum is always worth a visit. It doesn’t matter whether you just want to stroll around a bit or whether you are interested in the plants and … Read more
Dolce Vita instead of Tim Hortons
I have to admit that there are many other things going on in the world, which makes our “problems” totally unimportant. Nevertheless, there ARE things in life of everyone which are annoying, in one or … Read more
Spring is in the air
It is always the same; The winter was extremely long and hard this year. The reality is: The Winter was as it was supposed to be: Wet, cold and dark. But when spring finally knocks … Read more
Kingfisher spotting in Bochum
A friend told me that he has seen Kingfisher near the University in the city of Bochum. After I saw one there as well when we were in the region for a short hike, it … Read more
61 kilometres trough the Netherlands
It is really weird to sit here in my Office, write this blog post with the knowledge about what is happening in the Ukraine right now. Of course I think about the Ukraine people every … Read more
Who’s flying by here? An evening walk along the river “Ruhr”
Right now Germany is facing one storm after the other. We’ve already had two big storms here but we were lucky and almost nothing has been destroyed. We only have lost a fence and got … Read more
The garden thief
Like many other we have left some birdseed in the garden, just in case bird come by. Unfortunately we do not have many feathered friends coming by. But we just want to be sure that … Read more