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

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

Digital helper in a real world

Are you older than 30 years? Than you will probably agree with me that technique could be both a blessing and a curse. I like it to be up to date and I like to … Read more

Sun Sun Sun, here we come

The Beatles already payed homage to the sun in the year 1969. And when I am looking out of my window today, I am happy about that the sun is still here, even when summer … Read more

Change of perspective: Macro photography

If you are here on a regular basis, you know that I usually shoot photos of animals, especially birds. This time I dived into the world of Macro. I have done this before but it’s … Read more

Birdwatching at the North Sea: A fishy business

We have been at the North Sea for a weekend recently. Apart from drifting away with Cafes and Restaurants we had no plans. When we run into our Airbnb host one day, we talked about … Read more

A summer day in Cologne

I am a little behind my personal blog post schedule. There are several reasons for that. One is that we moved into a new apartment a while ago and there are still many things to … Read more

Pellworm – Sunny autumn vacation

After the heater in the apartment on the island of Pellworm totally broke down, we were lucky get an alternative option. Our AirBnb hosts have another house on the island which we could use. That … Read more

Wanderlust: Airfield Krefeld

In the last weeks we hiked a lot. Since the weather was really nice and due to Corona there was no chance for vacation at the sea for example, hiking was a really good alternative. … Read more