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I hope I can still wish you a happy new year, even if January is almost over. In general, we don’t have that way with nice wishes anymore, at least that’s my impression. Maybe that’s just Frankfurt-specific, but in the morning when I take our dog for a long walk…

Amazingly, I keep being told that the route Frankfurt-Munich can easily be done in three hours.  According to the motto: just going to Munich is not a thing.  For me it’s a matter of at least 4 hours every time, because at least 400 km or more, depending on where…

There is no better way to describe the landscape and people of Ticino than Jonny Rieger put it in words and pictures in his book “A balcony over Lake Maggiore”. His detailed descriptions are almost like a declaration of love for this partly rugged, partly delight region, which culture extends…

It may well be known that there are around 300,000 Russian-born citizens living in Berlin and that the “Charlottenburg” district is also popularly known as “Charlottengrad”. Among others, also bestselling author Wladimir Kaminer and his extended family lives in Berlin. I once met him  “from the front row” at a…

It was almost exactly two years ago when I had this wonderful “Robina Hood photo shooting” with the gray stallion “Smokey”. Unfortunately, it has meantime gone up into the horse heaven, but I still fondly remember this beautiful summer day in the forest. “Smokey” was really very patient and made…

It’s such a thing with cooking.  With soccer too.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.  Some have the coal in the grill for it, the others in the bank, but what the heck – in the end both of them probably want one thing: namely convince. Now I am…

When I was at my hairdresser’s in downtown Frankfurt last Saturday, I said to myself: oh damn, no parking space available.  This problem – if you want to call it such – has never existed in the past few months and I honestly enjoyed it.  I had less enjoyed having…

She studied fashion.  You see it. You feel it. Immediately. With studies and degrees and everything else.  You can see and feel it.  On every seam, on every button, on the workmanship, on the dedication to designing and making beautiful items of clothing.  In addition to giving old materials a…