On my 41st birthday, I decided to have a big party. I wasn’t able to celebrate my 40th, so I just postponed it for a year to have friends come over to enjoy each other’s company, and celebrate getting older. I had set up the table for 14 people, stood in the kitchen for hours … More The Phone Box at the Edge of the World- a book review
It has been too long! More than six years to be exact and I cannot wait to step out of the plane and reconnect with what I call “my Japanese self”. May 1st, 1993. This is the date my never-ending love affair with Japan started. I arrived in Tokyo and had to take a train … More On my way… to Japan
One of the things that have been set from the get go was that I will purchase and carry a GPS tracker with me, while I am on my hikes. Looking into it it became clear quite quickly that it would be the Garmin in-reach mini 2. Yes, I have been influenced by the YouTube … More How to stay in touch?
I am back in Berlin… since the 1st of August… until I fly to Japan on the 31st of August. Why? That my plans would be in constant flux was a given from the beginning; I was just surprised how fast that would happen. I was on my fifth day of hiking the Kungsleden and … More Better safe than sorry…
One Year - Five Continents 