31/03/2015
I did it. After months of thinking, pondering, discussing with friends, calculating my budget, and endless discussions with myself, I have sent off my request to Human Resources for the extension of my unpaid leave, and informed my former bosses. I am extending this trip a little, into spring 2015, and should be back to work […] Read More
Blues night
My sister Anke has a bar in a little village in Switzerland, on the other side of Lake Constance, just about half an hour’s drive from my parents. I visited her of course on my quick stop, and also got a special treat: I was finally there for a concert they had on that night. […] Read More
The first lunch
Back home, I started unpacking, leaving my mom a heap of clothes to wash and starting so sort things for round two. I will change some clothes, as after seven months there is some stuff that I really can’t see anymore, and take new things that I deposited at my parents place. I went through […] Read More
75825 kilometers
As I really like statistics and numbers, like the longest flight, the plane models etc, I kept track of all that data on my travels. After the first trip around the globe, here are the statistics: In total I travelled 75825 kilometers, which is roughly 1.9 times the circumference of the Earth. This figure includes the flights, the […] Read More
Full circle
Today, I am boarding my last flight of my first Round-the-world ticket, flying from Tokyo-Narita back to Zurich, where it all started 6 months and 26 days ago. I’ll have a short technical stop at Lake Constance, seeing my family and a few friends there, washing, changing clothes and dropping some superfluous weight before heading […] Read More
What’s left
… after all the packing. Read More
At home
When the train was rolling through southern Germany and my home region of Baden last Saturday on my way to my parents, I realized how blessed this region is…. Green hills, harvested fields, little towns with their churches, busy people… It’s all so astonishingly neat, so clean, so perfect… It’s like they comb the lawn […] Read More
Gare du Midi
My friends Sven and Kevin saw me off at the train station. They came to my temporary place and picked up my luggage and the remaining stuff that will stay with Sven and we drove to Gare du Midi. No fuss, no tears, just as I like it, they got me there and send me on […] Read More
Thank you Tenbosch
It’s done. My old place is finally empty and clean. Les Petits Riens came today and took my remaining furniture and stuff, the cleaning lady gave a final polish and I dumped the last of roughly a dozen bags of trash today. I was getting a bit nostalgic in the end. It was a nice […] Read More
My new place… for a week
So this is it, my new place for a week… I slept like a baby. Read More