“A young prince, the beloved of a reigning king and queen dies. The death of the lad is so patheticthat it wasno less than a thunder for the queen. Hit hard by the tragedy, the queen refrains from taking food and drinks. The grief was so much that she even forgot smiling. No remedy works …
If you look for things not to miss in Ecuador you’re gonna certainly stumble upon the artisan market, roughly a 2hr busride from Quito. The market is referred to be one of the most famous in whole South America, and the main market day is saturday. So this weekend we finally managed to go and …
So the nice thing about being able to stay longer in a foreign place than just for travels/touristic reasons is that I can wait for the right vibe, the right motivation to wrap my head around something, such as taking pics. It took me over a week to feel comfortable enough, less alien to walk …
So it’s been a while since my last post with acutal content. The past year has been somewhat troublesome, my health was pretty bad and after a long-ish stay in the hospital I luckily got back on my feet in February this year. I am very thankful for this and for all the support I …
The 4th international Degrowth-Conference took place from the September 2nd til 6th in Leipzig/Germany. I was there in order to write about it for a paper and had the chance to see some of the very interesting panels and scientific debates. Degrowth questions the mainstream economic idea of constant growth which is supposed to be …
Last weekend was a big date for the German urban gardening scene – the third nation-wide urban gardening meeting took place. And it was a big day for me particularly, as me and my urban gardening team in Nuremberg had the honour to host this big event. We had about 80 guests from more than …
Sometimes it is hard to keep the hopes high. Sometimes I am speechless about how we seem to run around doing nothing but hurting, breaking each other. Purposeful. Without purpose. When we open our eyes towards the things that matter we see all the shit we’re in with incredible clarity. Yet the solutions seem to …
Even though I returned to Germany on December 17th, so I closed this short, but intense chapter of Iceland at least for now, I wanted to write one last “travelling” post on a special place. The place I am talking about is Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands) in the south of Iceland. Vestmannaeyjar is an archipelago (a …
The pictures in this post are from a stormy night in Reykjavík…. My stay in Iceland has become more interesting, ever since I started actually meeting people and socialize. Particularly I slowly merge into some sort of sub-society, which consists of both, Icelanders and foreigners like me, who are staying just temporarily. This sub-society is …