New York February 2020

It’s kind of surreal when I think back to the year 2020. Almost everything has changed. Everything changed for me, my family and almost all other people around the world. When our flight to New … Read more

About Mice and Men during the apocalypse

…at least you could guess that Germany is just about to collapse, when reading the news. My warnapp on my cellphone informed me 3 times in the last 3 days. As much as in the … Read more

Bybasti is “secure” now

I’ve been moved to a new contract on my hosting platform last night, which is good in several ways: 1.) The website should be faster now. Photos open faster and browsing through the blog should … Read more

Small changes

This blog is more or less constantly changed in the background and I normally don’t inform about changes. But this time I’d like to let you know that I changed two small things. I have … Read more

Winterwalk in the Sauerland region

First of all a happy new year 🙂 There are things going on here, which I cannot understand at all. The Covid pandemic is still here, we still have restrictions and recommendations and many people … Read more

VanDusen Festival of Lights

Almost 8 years ago we visited the “VanDusen Festival of Lights” in Vancouver. Even though this is more or less long ago, I can pretty good remember many details. But 8 years ago also means … Read more

Mushroom walk in the woods

At least in Germany you may see a mushroom from time to time. But I’ve not seen as many as this year. It’s really a relief to be outside these days. The media is full … Read more

Autumn hike

Autumn is slowly coming in Germany. And since the weather forecast from yesterday forecasted no rain, we decided to go for a hike, one of the things we love to do in these Corona times. … 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