The Longest Way

This place is where I spent New Year’s Eve: Welcome to Amrum, the tenth-largest island of Germany: Amrum on larger [...]

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Today I received a package from Canada: Yay! An award!! My weird beard had previously won “Best Short Mountain Film” [...]

Friday, January 14th, 2011

It’s been a while since I reviewed my last travel literature find, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been [...]

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

There is a particular brand of Polish vodka that is very popular in Germany: Grasovka. It is flavored with buffalo [...]

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

This one came as a natural follow-up to last week’s review of Peter Fleming’s voyage through China. Here is his [...]

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Today I did something that I had never done before – I edited previous blog entries for content. I had [...]

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

I was very surprised when I found this one: Instanblue – a vodka from Turkey. And it’s called “votka” on [...]

Monday, January 24th, 2011

This one is probably going to be more of a eulogy than a review. It is about one of my favorite [...]

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

When I first picked up a copy of this one, I was like: Wow, so this guy was from Munich?? [...]

Friday, January 28th, 2011

This one was in 杭州 (Hangzhou), on the shores of the 西湖 (West Lake): April 7th 2006, Hangzhou. You might [...]

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

In every language, there are some expressions that are particularly hard to translate. In German, one of these words is [...]

Monday, January 31st, 2011

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