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Marseille Commandery – opening of a Templar church?

Marseille Commandery – opening of a Templar church?

On the way to the port of Marseille via the fortress, we saw the church of St. Laurent and right at the entrance two gentlemen dressed like Templars (although without a sword like the Knights of the Templar Order) received the seemingly few visitors...

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Readings and lectures during the Leipzig Book Fair

Readings and lec…

Book fairs such as those in Leipzig or Frankfurt, ...

A meeting with Ottilie PfefferMinze - Actually!

A meeting with O…

Open and curious, the eye wanders from the cover o...

Architecture Bauhaus Museum with ladder to heaven

Architecture Bau…

In our article about the new Bauhaus Museum in Wei...

Leipzig Book Fair: “The Noise of Life” – Jörg Hartmann

Leipzig Book Fai…

Many of us are very familiar with the always grump...

Readings and lectures during the Leipzig Book Fair

Readings and lecture…

Book fairs such as those in Leipzig or Frankfurt, ...

A meeting with Ottilie PfefferMinze - Actually!

A meeting with Ottil…

Open and curious, the eye wanders from the cover o...

Architecture Bauhaus Museum with ladder to heaven

Architecture Bauhaus…

In our article about the new Bauhaus Museum in Wei...

Leipzig Book Fair: “The Noise of Life” – Jörg Hartmann

Leipzig Book Fair: …

Many of us are very familiar with the always grump...

Saicur - a soundtrack against the absurd behavior

Saicur - a soundtrac…

SAICUR presents a soundtrack against the absurd be...

Strange Kind Of Women – visiting Meiningen

Strange Kind Of Wome…

Meiningen is located on the Werra in southern Thur...

Evening cabaret at the Rino campsite

Evening cabaret at t…

Some people are really spontaneous and willing to ...

Jon Davis – singer of Korn and fan of HR Giger

Jon Davis – singer…

Jonathan Howsmon Davis was one of the founders of ...

Spring awakening on the Ahr and Main

Spring awakening on …

Longer than ever before, is the almost convincing ...

Olive trees - cultural-historical examination of the olive tree

Olive trees - cultur…

During our return journey from Istanbul via the Da...

Blooming yellow gentian on the slopes of Walmendinger Horn

Blooming yellow gent…

Our hike up to the Walmendinger Horn was not only ...

Even the ancient Romans used the wood of the serviceberry!

Even the ancient Rom…

Right at the beginning of our project trip we met ...

Easter time – egg time - chicken and quail eggs!

Easter time – egg …

We arrived in the south of Germany in time for Eas...

Muskateller – a pleasure as a grape

Muskateller – a pl…

You probably don't necessarily have to be a wine d...

Dutch cuisine – fast food completely different!

Dutch cuisine – fa…

Hardly any national cuisine is free of influences ...

Swedish Kanelbullar – the slightly different cinnamon rolls

Swedish Kanelbullar …

In almost every international cuisine there are si...

Bicycle-Travelling & E-Bike-Camping

Staranzano - Bike Tour in the Nature Reserve Foce dell`Isonzo

24-05-2019

Staranzano - Bike Tour Natur…

After heavy rain showers of the last days there was something like blue sky and ...

Bike or walk along the Manavgat River

28-10-2018

Bike or walk along the Manav…

Despite all efforts, we can not continually review all of our articles for up-to...

Longdendale Trail - hike up to the moor heights

07-10-2019

Longdendale Trail - hike up …

After exploring the Longdendale Trail in sections along the reservoirs and at th...

Germany - Austria - Switzerland - Italy - Great Britain - France - Netherlands

Amsterdam – Historical urban development on the Amstel

Amsterdam – Historical urban development on the …

21-12-2023 | Hits:416

We were traveling in Amsterdam for a few days, completing all the tours by bike...

Walser costume - explanations of the tradition in Mittelberg

Walser costume - explanations of the tradition in …

05-01-2021 | Hits:2831

The day before we noticed the first activities of the local fire brigade, which ...

Our trip over the Zuiderdamm to Callantsoog

Our trip across the Zuiderdamm to Callantsoog

05-09-2022 | Hits:1443

As already reported in a first blog article, the destination of our trip into th...

Xanten - far more than just Colonia Ulpia Traiana

Xanten - far more than just Colonia Ulpia Traiana

19-05-2019 | Hits:2886

Every year, about 800,000 tourists visit the city of Xanten, located in the nort...

Albania - North Macedonia - Greece - Turkey - Cyprus

A Wedding in Albania - Traditional wedding customs

A Wedding in Albania - Traditional wedding customs

22-11-2016 | Hits:22235

When two people celebrate wedding, this is always a special event, not only for ...

Boat Charter in Turkey

Boat Charter in Turkey - a blue cruise to amuse yo…

21-12-2013 | Hits:5879

Apart from the huge harbours of Izmir and Istanbul there are small and medium si...

The imposing

The imposing "Rotunda" of Thessalonica

08-11-2023 | Hits:28365

One of the surviving buildings of Roman times in the ancient part of Thessalonic...

Hiring a Car in Turkey

Rent a Car in Turkey - couple of options make it e…

23-12-2013 | Hits:5054

Hiring a car in Turkey is a great way to go off the beaten track to really see t...

Serbia - Hungary - Czech Republic - Slovenia - Croatia - Poland

Rewa – A Fishing dock, Sandbank Reff and the Amber Road

Rewa – Peninsula Reff, Fishing dock and the Ambe…

11-06-2019 | Hits:5107

Once a major landing place in trade and for fishing, the landing place of the fo...

Visit to the Split Archaeological Museum

Visit to the Split Archaeological Museum

29-10-2023 | Hits:594

Already during our first, short visit to the ruined city of Salona, Robi mention...

Starting from Vienna along the Danube reaching Budapest

Starting from Vienna along the Danube reaching Bud…

05-08-2017 | Hits:9027

After some informative days at the New Danube campground in Vienna, we drove alo...

Hungary - From the capture of the Magyars to today

Hungary - From the capture of the Magyars to today

26-01-2018 | Hits:3066

This year, Hungary was partner country of the CMT in Stuttgart and as our Centra...

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