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...

Earlier this year I've made a trip to South Tyrol again. It was early autumn and the leaves started to get colored already. As I got to know this area quite well over the years this time I decided to give up on making my regular types of images and instead go with something new. I remembered that fo...

You might already have seen my posts on Twitter and Mastodon about my new account on substack.com. Substack.com is a website for writers to publish their works directly to their audience via mail, so it works mostly like a email newsletter. Even if my audience here is rather small I often feel the...

I love you. I'm sure you've heard this a lot, but it's true. I'm deeply in love with you. And it happens again and again every time I have the chance to visit you. Thankfully there are lots of opportunities that work as an excuse to come to you every year or at least every other year. For me this ex...

Everyone knows Paris, but did you ever have the chance to travel to France without stopping in the big capital? Earlier in June this year I've made a trip to Burgundy, more precisely I saw the area around the cities of Auxerre, Dijon and Beaune. Of course Burgundy is famous for wine and cheese...

Welcome to Europe. Welcome to Italy. Welcome to Lake Garda. Welcome to Malcesine. Welcome. Just a couple of weeks ago in June 2022 I made a short trip to Italy. It was my first time at the beautiful Lake Garda in the very north of Italy, directly in front of the majestic Alps. The lake fills an enor...

Last weekend was one of the first weekends that really felt like spring or early summer. It was sunny and already rather warm. So I decided to make a short trip to the wonderful old city of Bamberg. The medieval town of Bamberg is not totally unique for its old, crooked houses and narrow, organic st...

In this second part of my review of the best writing apps for Mac, iPhone and iPad I wanted to mention all those apps that didn't make it in the first list of essential apps from last week. These apps here in part two aren't bad apps at all. This is just a selection of apps that I personally strug...