travel

Valley Trip Summary: Half-time.

I’m about half-way into my trip to the Bay Area, i.e. Silicon Valley, so I figured it’s time for a first summary. First of all, I’ve been neglecting this blog, and to some degree even Twitter. This isn’t just because I’ve been spending my time doing and seeing a lot of stuff and a bunch […]


Koh Jum

Every afternoon at 4 pm, when the sun loses a little of its power, the men and boys of koh jum meet on the main road of their village to practise muay thai, the thai form of boxing. in muay thai you use your fists, your feet, your knees to hit your opposite. for thai […]


chiang mai

The building the foundation [office] resides in is an old wooden traditional Thai house, and while this house has stayed the same, it’s now totally surrounded with tons of cement. Funnily, the foundation is affiliated with the Green Party in Germany, and the house looks like the realisation of the green conservation principle, fighting a […]


fortune cookie

a fortune cookie told me a little while ago: soon you will be travelling around the world. Well, that turned out to be true, so i’ll be roaming around for a couple of weeks. I’ll try to keep posting here, but also there’ll be sort of a little side-project either here or here. enjoy.


tales of asia

aus gegebenem anlass: tales of asia. sehr, sehr feine seite.
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online travel tools

note to self: check out [travelpod]
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Red Centre

Some pictures from the Red Centre (click any of the pictures to see the whole set)

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out of fuel

Rest stop on the way to Kings Canyon, central Australia. This is one of the places where you really don’t want to run out of fuel…
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out of town

für ein paar tage out of town, ab ins red centre. [google earth uluru (kmz, 0 KB)]
yeah.
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uluru

Fein, fein, fein: Gerade ein Ticket gebucht nach Uluru (früher: Ayers Rock). Und bei der Gelegenheit geht’s auch gleich zu den Olgas, der Felsformation mit dem besten Namen ever. Ick freu mir!
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east coast

east coast, australia. bisschen wie florida in den 50s, oder?
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gute reise

gute reise, flo!
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travelog: brisbane

erste eindruecke aus australiens drittgroesster stadt: brisbane.
seit der ankunft gestern versucht, mit ein paar freunden hier kontakt aufzunehmen, ohne erfolg bisher. dafuer viel fussarbeit: den central business district (CBD) erkundet, botanical gardens, dann nachts runter ins west end, das in south brisbane liegt.
CDB erwartungsgemaess officebusinesslunchschlipstraegeralarm, durchsetzt mit netten cafes. die botanical gardens, gleich […]


it’s all good

mit allem versoehnt, immer, weil innerhalb etwa einer woche gesehen:

koalas (2)
kangaroos (mehrere dutzend; haben knochen im schwanz)
wallabies (mehrere dutzend; haben einen schwanz wie eine ratte, ohne knochen)
jede menge voegel, die ich nicht kenne, die aber entweder ziemlich bunt oder laut waren, oder beides
pelikane (2 oder 3)
fledermaeuse, alle groessen
schlammspringer
krokodile (mehrere)
fische, deren namen ich nie behalten […]


apologies

apologies, apologies, and shame on me. updates at the moment on a very, very random basis. since i’m traveling at the moment for a few weeks, i only have very limited online time.
plus, in most internet cafes here, the keys get stuck so easily that it’s just too much of a pain to […]