I’m still alive – I know it’s been a while since I last posted. The last couple of weeks were crazy, es ging drunter und drüber. For those of you who are here for the photos, I’d suggest you skip this massive chunk of text […]
Frequency Festival 2014
5 days in St. Pölten, Austria, with the best bunch of people I’ve known for over 10 years. Awful weather, muddy boots & muddy everything. Taking showers in the river. Mice in our tents, disgusting food, lots of booze and lots of selfies. If you’re looking […]
Italian Photo Safari
We took the Land Rover for a little fun ride and went on a golden-hour-landscape-photo-safari. 1000 year old olive orchards. The towers of Siena and a hazy sunset. Day trip to the enchanted woods of Bommarzo.
Black and Whites from Italy
Almost every photo I took in Tuscany was dipped into this amazing golden light. Which of course makes it fun and easy to photograph, but there’s only that many pictures of landscapes and sunsets before you get bored of it. So I decided to, every now and […]
Roadtrippin through Tuscany
Pienza, Siena, Buonconvento, Montepulciano, Montealcino, Florence… the list of beautiful cities and villages to visit is endless. We’ve got our few favourite spots that we go to every single summer, like this one restaurant in Pienza with the best Pici with wild boar ragout – one […]
Sunrise Over Tuscany
Tuscany is probably the most photogenic place I’ve ever been to. You basically can’t take a bad photograph. My sister and me love to sleep with our windows wide open as there is absolutely no noise or light coming from the outside, nothing but fresh […]
La Dolce Vita – Toscana 2014
My family spends almost every summer in Tuscany. It’s the most beautiful and relaxing holiday and it’s kind of everyone’s highlight of summer. Our days in Tuscany are all about time for family & friends but also time for yourself. It’s as if time stands still in this lonely […]
Wiedermal Berlin
I just came back from a weekend in Berlin where I met some good old friends from my time in boarding school in Germany. Everyone of us has spread their wings and we are now all over the place, from Mongolia to Sweden, London to Berlin. My ex-roommate also […]
Climbing Großvenediger
Tyrol is probably the most traditional and untouched region of Austria. Friendly people with a strong dialect (which is challenging even for a fellow Austrian), lush green meadows or lots of snow and massive mountains – basically the all-American vision of Austria. Sound of Music, happy cows and all […]
Yogyakarta and its madness
I experienced Yogya and Java in a really intense and impulsive way. I took a 23 hour night bus from Bali – a bus full of men who couldn’t speak English and one white girl travelling by herself, we battled our way through heavy rainstorms & flooded streets, […]
Lombok, Indonesia
Indonesia comprises more than 13,000 islands and Lombok is one of them. It is close to Bali and also similar in size, but it is nowhere near as touristy as Bali. Bali is crowded & busy, every single piece of free land is used for bars, […]
Ubud, Bali
Everyone knows Ubud. It’s where Julia Robert falls in love with Javier Bardem and dumps James Franco for him in Eat Pray Love. It’s about an hour away from the coast, so unlike anywhere else in Bali you don’t come here for surfing. I came to Ubud for the […]
Gili Islands, Indonesia
At some point I felt like I had seen all of Bali: Denpasar, Seminyak, Uluwatu, Canggu, Sanur, Nusa Lembongan, Ubud, Candidasa, Lovina and a couple more in-between. So I decided to catch a boat from Padangbai and to go the Gili Islands. I had heard […]
Backpacking through Bali
I wanted to learn how to surf, so I went to Bali. Blonde girl with a big backpack, 17 years old. I had the time of my life. I met the most wonderful people – locals as well as fellow travellers. (Not sure if “traveller” […]
Out and About in Hong Kong
Before heading to Bali, I stopped by Hong Kong for one night to drop off some luggage at my best friend’s house. After a crazy month of backpacking through Indonesia, I returned to HK – and this time I stayed. Traveling by myself was such an amazing […]
Little Trip to Longsheng, China
Early in the morning, we got on a bus in Guilin that took us to a bus… which took us to a bus… that took us to a bus… which finally took us up to the mountains to a place called Longsheng. It’s only 100 km away from Guilin, […]
Chinese Food Markets
This post is generally gross and revolting. S. and me had countless experiences, which left us in shock and disgust. And these food markets were quite something… I feel like there’s nothing we haven’t seen in China. Kids peeing and pooing in public, a puddle of blood on the bus, a […]
Somewhere around Guilin, China
Guilin is a huge city of 5 million people and one of China’s most popular tourist destinations. Yet no one in the West has really heard of it. After a couple of weeks in Hong Kong, S. and me decided to book a 20 hour […]
Shanghai Photo Diary
I initially started this blog to share my many photos of the places I’ve visited, people I’ve met and adventures I’ve had during my gap year with friends and family back home. But I don’t have this one place I call home. And friends and […]
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