This year was the year of mirrors. My major “lessons learned”: The “St. James Way” is more than a cliché; there is always a teacher just around the corner; the mountain without a peak really doesn’t have a peak. Caminar como el peregrino “You are lost,” a guy on the Camino Francés condenses my state…
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When I left home for the very first time without a return ticket, I only had a rough idea what travelling is about. I knew I would stretch my comfort zone. I knew I would make new friends, try new things, discover new places, but I didn’t know it would change my life in an…
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It’s time to share some knowledge with you: Up to now I took you along some of my adventures, but now it is time to create some value for your own travels. But be careful, travelling could change your life. 1. Research Locally Many times I felt like I’m properly prepared for a trip. I…
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The title sounds promising, doesn’t it? 😉 There is one more summer adventure I want to share with you: Instead of a surfing holiday in Portugal (as I originally planned), I spent about two weeks “working away” in a hostel in Poland. In between the shifts I hiked around the High Tatras of Poland and…
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Before I take you right to the mountains of Montenegro I have to relocate the setting to the book department of Globetrotter at Isartor Munich. One day earlier I booked a flight to Dubrovnik impulsively. In preparation of my trip I skimmed through the Balkan section of the sweeping travel guide shelf. My eyes got…
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Fed up. Disillusioned. Gloomy. This is how I would describe my mood by the end of May. My post-travel depression after my working holiday was still striking. After three months back in Munich working two jobs, I felt like my travel bug was slowly dying. An adventure was overdue, but I was hopelessly uninspired and…
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There is one last New Zealand adventure I want to take you along with: The great final on Great Barrier Island. I didn’t only walk the Aotea Track to the highest point of the island, I also experienced the distinctive bays and unique tribe of this island. I want to share all about it with…
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„Far north – there must be nothing but freedom.“ – This was my first thought, when I spotted Cape Reinga on the map of New Zealand. I was just about to settle into my new travel life. Nelson Lakes, Mount Cook Nationalpark and the wild wild Westcoast were laying ahead of me. My journey would…
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The longest 120 seconds of my life in New Zealand It is a few minutes after midnight in the night from Sunday November 13th to Monday 14th. I’m lying in bed, reading my book about some fearless sailors, who weather the storms of the south sea. Rapt by the story I’m acknowledging: “Wow, the book…
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Imagine you loose everything you have ever owned… Cyclone Winston destroyed the homes of 56.000 people and took 42 lives in Fiji. It was the strongest natural disaster ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere. But instead of despair and depression I discovered happiness and hospitality like nowhere else before. On Koro Island All Hands Volunteers…
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