Category Archives: Photography
Taking Photos in the Romanian Winter
On Lake Bâlea in Romania in December. More than 2,000 meters above sea level. It has been cold long enough for the lake to be completely frozen. We are walking on ice. It has been snowing long enough for the ice to … Continue reading
Heil Santa
In Sighișoara in Romania, Santa Claus greeted me with a Nazi salute (albeit with his left arm). The large number of German-speaking Romanians whom I met in Sighișoara are hopefully a mere coincidence and not evidence of a secret fascist cell being formed. (Photo by Dominik Lenz. … Continue reading
Mountain Air
Enjoying the mountain air at the Curmătura refuge in the Piatra Craiului Mountains in Romania. (Photos by Dominik Lenz.)
In the Jungle
Ok, not quite in the jungle, but at the impressive Botanical Garden of Palermo in Sicily.
It began with dense fog. (Part 2)
(Click here to read part 1.) The name of the picnic area – Musolino – reminded me too much of Italy’s erstwhile dictator, but we had just left the zone of the fog, and after the disappointment at the peak of Mount Dinnammare … Continue reading
It began with dense fog. (Part 1)
Mount Dinnammare sits 1,130 meters (3,700 feet) above the port city of Messina and offers splendid views across the strait of Scylla and Charybdis, to Calabria, across the mountains of Sicily and on both the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian Sea. After having just arrived … Continue reading
What do Love Locks say about your Relationship?
Why do people use love locks as a symbol for their relationship? They symbolize lack of freedom. Prisoners and kidnapped children are rotting behind doors closed with locks like these. You use them for your basement to store stuff that you never need anymore, but … Continue reading
Wow, this ship is huge!
When you walk or drive along Via Giuseppe Garibaldi in Messina, a wide road running parallel to the shore and the port, you could at first sight believe that there is another row of multi-storey buildings behind the ones you’re … Continue reading
Medininkai
Most people only visit the small village of Medininkai to climb Lithuania’s two highest mountains. I didn’t stay long either after my mountain tour, but I still paid a visit to the wooden church and the castle. The church was closed. From the … Continue reading
The Happy Hermit 