Carry and be carried

So, finally the time has come. Here is my first post 2023 🙂 The idea for this article came into my mind a while ago, but as most you have noticed, we have a child … Read more

Merops apiaster – the bee-eater

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