helverreisen

I just checked again, my last post was almost exactly four weeks ago: 24.08. We had managed 14 days at the hut. 14 days still lay ahead of us. Everything has been written about...

Hello! Here comes my report after 14 days in the cabin! We are still alive and realize that you don't have to travel far to get to know other cultures. But more on that later! ...

It's 5:30am. Just a moment ago, everything was beautifully quiet. Until the first hikers decided to have their sunrise breakfast right under our window. Now I'm awake. And I can...

Every person on this Earth should have limited data storage capacity, especially for storing image and video files! I could join the 'Fridays for Future movement' in this...

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay Watchin' the tide, roll away I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay Wasting time My earworm of the past few days. Do you know the song? Then hum...

Three weeks have passed! This morning we said goodbye to Hof and its human and animal inhabitants and to the beautiful Schnalstal Valley. And it was really hard for us. We lived...

2.5 weeks in South Tyrol. That also means: 2.5 weeks of South Tyrolean dialect. German-speaking Italy! ;o) I have to say, when people consciously speak 'Standard German' with us...

From mid-June onwards, it is a busy time for the mountain farmer. (Nonsense, actually the whole year is very busy. Even in winter, a work day often ends around 10pm with the...

Written on 06/24/2019 Yesterday evening we signed over espresso, grappa, and panna cotta, discussing why we are actually doing this farmer's mission and why we like it so much!...

It's 6:27. At 6:45 am, the alarm would have gone off. Like every morning, we are already awake before it. In our carefree life in Hannover during our sabbatical year stopover,...

Sabbatical year - Part Two Summer in the mountains I don't know if it's based on early childhood imprinting. In my family, whenever someone was sick, we would listen to Heidi...

11.04.-15.06. Ich weiß gar nicht, ob Blog-Texte im Nachhinein schreiben so viel Sinn macht, weil sie eh keiner liest, aber der Vollständigkeit halber und vielleicht mal für die...

A bit abruptly, the last entry in our blog. Lost in the constant rain in the camper van in New Zealand. Although we still had a nice ending. After our surf sessions, we changed...

It's raining! Unfortunately, it's been raining during our last days in New Zealand. Sometimes it's a gentle drizzle, other times it's pouring rain. Most of the time, at least...

It has been more than 2 weeks since 50 people were killed in Christchurch. In the past 18 days, I have been thinking about whether I want to write a blog post about it. At the...

Today is Saturday, March 30, 2019. We have definitely had a perfect Saturday so far: breakfast, market visit, Lindy Hop event, and now afternoon coffee. All of this could have...

Today felt like a vacation!I know, some might throw rotten eggs and tomatoes towards New Zealand, because we've been off since December while everyone else is battling through...

We did the Tongariro Crossing. Report to follow. Here are just the pictures for now!

Instead of a campground or freedom camping, we stopped at Ross' Farmstay on the night of March 12th to 13th. Our bus found a spot between the double garage and woodshed, there...

If you're thinking of rugby, football, hockey or even golf, you're completely wrong! It's all about gumboot throwing! In the town of Taihape - Gumboottown! We're training here...

... unfortunately also the city of rain for us. Therefore, the pictures unfortunately do not reflect the beauty and interesting aspects of the city.

Te Papa Museum Wellington

... the work shoes were placed in front of the pub for the after-work beer.

While we used to wake up to romantically babbling rivers, softly bleating sheep, or kiwis rustling around our bus, reality has caught up with us: a big construction site next to...

More information and pictures to follow!

The bra fence... 😊 - or the mail whale

Here come the first beautiful pictures!

On the way from Milford Sounds to Queenstown. For those familiar with the area: We have just left Te Anau behind and are now driving back on Route 94 to Kingston to stay there...

So dear readers of the blog, I'm sorry, somehow it's not working out with the writing here in New Zealand. My theses about possible reasons: Thesis A) We don't have enough time:...