Recently I had the chance to visit Arles, the tiny city in the south of France, in the heart of the Provence region. Arles had a rather important place on any ancient map since Julius Caesar established a colony there back in 46BC. Its ideal location next to the Rhone made it a very important comm...

Have you ever been to Mallorca? No? You definitely should plan a visit there in the years to come. Recent political changes how to treat and possibly limit the enormous amount of visitors each year makes it an even more desirable place to visit. What an irony. Sure Mallorca is still famous for endle...

Zermatt's youth hostel lies on a hill, which seems to be quite the norm for almost any youth hostel in the world. In a mountain village like Zermatt this might be even more understandable as simply there's not enough room in the mostly flat areas of the valley for all the houses, restaurants, hotel...

We're in 2023 and it's still surprisingly hard to publish a simple Markdown .md text file as part of a blog on the internet. I did a bit of research what tools are out there and how difficult all these different setups are. And honestly I'm pretty shocked and disappointed that for me with very littl...

When going for a walk on weekends or in my spare time I tend to explore always the same spots. There's a handful of tracks that I usually prefer to walk along. In a way it's relaxing to know what's coming next. You don't have to look on a map continuously to find your way or not to miss the next tur...

Mountains are incredible. They have always been there since the beginning of time. They will always be there until the end of time. They don't change. They are eternal. In fact there are only a few places left where you can think of planet earth as something that is stable and reliable. Stable like...

We seem to live in really difficult times these days. There's the war in Ukraine that is killing thousands of people, both aggressors and defenders. There's the recent earthquake in Turkey in Syria with collapsing buildings and again thousands of casualties. There are the totalitarian regimes in Afg...

A couple of weeks ago I was among those people who decided that it's about time to leave twitter behind and look for something else. For me leaving Twitter was relatively easy. I just had a tiny account there which just a handful of followers. In recent years I mainly used Twitter for reading, it wa...

Yes, I know, it's that season again. We're approaching Christmas soon and everywhere the Christmas songs start playing, there are decorated Christmas trees and special streetlights to welcome this most festive season of the year. It's easy to become overwhelmed and get enough of all that shopping te...

During my recent stay in Venice while the Biennale Arte 2022 was still taking place, I also had the chance to visit Marlene Dumas' solo exhibition "open-end" in the Palazzo Grassi. Certainly I recognized Dumas' name when preparing my trip to Italy, but so far I never had a clear picture of her w...