Category Archives: Travel

After three weeks in the jungle

Posted on 2016-06-26 by Andreas Moser

That’s how you enter: shaved, clean, excited. That’s how you come back after three weeks: with a beard, dirty, exhausted, and only alive thanks to a rifle purchased from an indigenous tribe.

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Different Professions of Faith

Posted on 2016-06-23 by Andreas Moser

In Sicily, many people openly display their Christian belief by putting up images or statutes of Jesus or Mary next to their front door: The neighbour at number 59 counters with a completely different but equally public profession of faith: … Continue reading →

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Next move: Arequipa in Peru

Posted on 2016-06-20 by Andreas Moser

The more often you move, the more you find out what you like and what you don’t like. It has been emerging that I love mountains and grassland more than the sea or the tropics. Huge cities are impractical because you lose too … Continue reading →

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Video Blog: Final of Football World Cup 2014

Posted on 2016-06-15 by Andreas Moser

Some people use their annual holiday for the Football World Cup. I only noticed that there even is a World Cup after planning my trip to Greece, Macedonia and Albania. I didn’t care, as long as it wouldn’t lead to … Continue reading →

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My Donations to Public Libraries

Posted on 2016-06-10 by Andreas Moser

My steadfast refusal to read e-books even in 2016 has two practical disadvantages: Each year, a few trees are felled just for the books I read. Whenever I stay at one place for a few months, I am gathering a … Continue reading →

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Video Blog: Unicorns

Posted on 2016-06-08 by Andreas Moser

For thousands of years, mankind has been divided between those who believe in the existence of unicorns and those who don’t. Those who are convinced that unicorns are more than mere creatures of legend have been exposed to ridicule and … Continue reading →

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Monkeys are Humans too

Posted on 2016-06-06 by Andreas Moser

Zur deutschen Fassung dieses Artikels. Recently there has been a renewed discussion about the nature of monkeys and apes and how we should view and treat them. I was reminded of this when I was at Machía Park in Villa Tunari … Continue reading →

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Next trip: Tipnis National Park in Bolivia

Posted on 2016-06-02 by Andreas Moser

My Bolivian housemate Henry is a computer and telecommunications expert who likes to watch football and drink beer. From time to time though, he says “let’s go into the wilderness” with the spontaneity of someone who wants to play a … Continue reading →

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The Armenian Genocide

Posted on 2016-06-02 by Andreas Moser

In the Old City of Jerusalem, you know you are in the Armenian Quarter when you see these posters on many of the walls and rusty gates. I still remember my first visit to Jerusalem in 1992. When I spotted … Continue reading →

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Confusing the Sun and the Moon

Posted on 2016-05-20 by Andreas Moser

As I went hiking to Lake Corani in Bolivia, I could be forgiven for confusing the sun, barely shining through threatening clouds like a spooky moon, on the one side, and the full moon on the other side, shining as bright as if … Continue reading →

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