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The Island of Aphrodite....

October 02, 2022 - well, Cyprus of course. Travelled to the Island for two weeks in September 2022. Initially wanted to check out apartment...
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The missing years...

August 07, 2022 - are the ones since 2018. I have not been active in updating the blog anymore. As an interim, I wrote a short blog post a...
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A new beginning...

January 05, 2018 - For a year, this time 2018, has arrived. The year is still fresh or can one say innocent? Is it really as events have al...
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Good Bye 2017...

December 30, 2017 - Another year has passed, where did the time go. The new year is merely a day away and as always one ponders what it brin...
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Summer Equinox....

June 22, 2017 - has arrived and we have halftime for the year 2017. Summer now has arrived in the eastern Levante, not that I have been...
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Another one bits the dust

December 30, 2016 - well of course another year has passed really, or is biting the dust. It is late December 2016 and this year is done, mo...
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Hot Air......

July 31, 2016 - Hot air is coming out of the blast furnace of the glass manufacturing workshop in Sarafand on the southern coast of Leba...
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Half time....

June 04, 2016 - one could say, it is already the beginning of June 2016. Although I realize not many people really read all of this, I s...
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The Rain is coming...

December 31, 2015 - The rain is coming at the end of the year 2015, finally or at least that what is told in the media. Sitting in my office...
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The heat is still on......

October 10, 2015 - although it is already past beginning of October, the days are still hot and the nights are warm. Here in the ‘South’ we...
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July Rain.....

July 27, 2015 - Wow, I think this is the longest time ever that since starting this I have not posted anything. Reason? Not sure, I was...
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A Farewell to 2014

December 31, 2014 - and a warm welcome to 2015 from the shores of the Mediterranean. I am watching the last sunset over the sea for this yea...
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Good Bye Whiskey - A Tribute to an incredible dog.......

December 24, 2014 - Whisky is a nice drink from the Scottish Highlands, but it also the name for my dogs since the first one, who was Whiske...
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Spring is nearly over...

May 04, 2014 - in Lebanon, the weather is getting hot now. The last two months have been busy, I was sick and on leave, so much of what...
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Year of the Horse

February 23, 2014 - Happy New Year to all. We are through the first two months nearly and I have not published anything. I have been in and...
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Time flies.....

October 04, 2013 - literally, once it has passed, one asks where did the days go. It is now two months plus that I wrote or posted any phot...
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Rockets on Beirut.....

June 01, 2013 - and from the south of the country onto the neighbours. That was the hot topic for the last few days Besides the material...
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Dark days in December.....

December 13, 2012 - in Germany, not only weather wise. The first snow has fallen, enough to have to clean the driveway twice in the short ti...
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Indian Summer ...

October 28, 2012 - in Germany these days. It is good to be home, nice clean air, golden sunshine with temperatures around 22 degrees during...
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Palestine Sunbirds (and a Thunderstorm),

October 08, 2012 - I was photographing during some lunch breaks lately. At least something useful to do, just outside of my office they com...
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Finally

August 30, 2012 - the first rain in months today. Heavy rain it was for 45 minutes, totally unexpected and early. Normally, if lucky the f...
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Summer in the city....

July 09, 2012 - oh yes, as promised the electricity issue has been bad and it has been hot. As protesters are continuing burning tires o...
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A long hot summer ahead

June 21, 2012 - The summer mayhem has begun. Last weekend all the power plants in the country malfunctioned, all of them at once. Yeah r...
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Cooling off in the Chouf Mountains

June 10, 2012 - this weekend. The weather has gotten now hot and humid here at the coast, so it was time again to go up into the mountai...
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Travel

April 17, 2012 - is something I have to come and dislike lately. Last Sunday was the perfect example why travel has been a nuisance. Fir...
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Home

April 14, 2012 - is a place I feel more and more happy to be. It is getting more difficult each time to leave, going back to the countrie...
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History

April 13, 2012 - since some time now is the old steel mill that formed part of the heritage in Dortmund. Since the mid 1800 it was an int...
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Easter

April 09, 2012 - in Germany this year started with temperatures of just 1 degree in the morning, but a clear sunshine. If it would have b...
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No spring in Germany

April 07, 2012 - yet, snowshowers this morning at around 2 degrees. Whiskey was very happy to see me, maybe he is wondering to what place...
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