I can hardly belive that I've already been back in Germany for ten days now! It feels like yesterday that I arrived back in Munich. And I still haven't fully arrived. But I suppose that's hardly surprising after a year of travelling. More »
Eleven days ago, the day after I had returned from Tikal, my server had a hard disk crash. The site was down, everything seemed to be gone. And guess, who hadn't made a backup... More »
I can hardly believe that I only have one day left! On monday it's time to fly home! So it's starting to be time to say good-bye. But I won't say good-bye quietly and sad! I'm trying to say "cu soon" with laughter, hugs and kisses! More »
I've just been to a scary place. Scary because it is in Guatemala Citys most dodgy part. But even more scary because of the poverty people live in there. The place I visited is the city dump of Guatemala City where thousands of people try to salvage food and a living from what other people have thrown away.
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I just returned from Tikal, which is easily one of the most amazing places I have visited on this trip: You are literally in the middle of the djungel, around you nothing but rainforest, all you hear are animal noises like you have never heard before and and then, all of a sudden, you see teh top of a pyramid tower over the trees. More »
Just got an email from my mom that the telephone in my appartement hasn't been working for the last two weeks. Just great! I'm gone for 11 months, everything works and then just before I return everything goes wrong! More »
God, I'm angry today! I just found out that my ISP back home pretty much cheated me out of 400 Euros. And getting that money back will be all but easy. You know how big companies are - once they got your money, they don't want to let go. Here's what happened: More »
December 7th is "La Fiesta del Diablo" in Guatemala, the "Day of the Devil". On this day people are supposed to remove all bad influences from their lives, clean their house and to rid society of all evil. And apparently one of the ways to do this is to start a massive fire between two petrol stations. More »
It was windy as hell, cold as in a freezer, too little oxygen in the air and the visibility was at times less than ten meters. It was tough, boy was it tough! But the sense of achievement! And the sunrise we got from the very top (3,976 meters) of Volcan Acatenango: We could see all the way from Mexiko to El Salvador! More »
In three weeks I'll already be home. And I'd be lying if I said that I'm only looking forward to going home. Actually, the thought makes me more than a wee bit uneasy. But of course there are also a lot of things I'm really looking forward to. So here is a short list of things that come to my mind. I prefer dwelling on them to dwelling on the things I'm not looking forward to :-). More »