Marrakesh / Morocco, my dream

Today I start out with one of my favorite pictures.

I took it in Marrakesch in the garden of Yves Saint Laurent, in the Jardin Majorelle. It is windows, which has an effect to the inside and outside, it seems to be magic and to promise something.

Germany - some ideas for presents

Sometimes I have thought, that for me feeling it could be always the "time to make a gift" because I did not want to be a simple follower of the consumer society, which tells you when 

Germany - light and darkness

The Christmas-time has begun in Germany since several weeks, for my feeling much too early, but on the other hand I love all these lights in our dark months of the year.

But my first photo for this years Christmas time shall be one from southern France. It is a window, which I have taken in a small church in Coursegoule / France.

Caribbean Sea - Star Clipper and Royal Clipper in the Caribbean Sea

Royal Clipper

My sailing trips with the Star Clippers and the Royal Clipper in the Caribbean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, across the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean.

Caribbean Sea - Star Clippers and Royal Clipper sail away melody

Star Clippers and Royal Clipper sail away melody Conquest of Paradise for me is always an exiting event to hear and to see how the sails go up.

Caribbean Sea - Star Clippers melody and sails up

The Star Clippers and the Royal Clipper are the  queens of the oceans. 

Caribbean Sea - Star Clipper and Royal Clipper meeting in February 2012 in the Caribbean Sea

It was a thrilling event for everybody when the Royal Clipper met the Star Clipper in the Caribeean Sea in February 2012.

Tuscany / Italy - "Pepper-Cake" is a culinary delicacy from the Toskana/Italy for All Saints' Day

from: Kulinarische Streizüge durch die Toskana (Döbbelin)

The "Pepper-Cake" is a culinary delicacy from the Toskana, there they call it "il pane co'Santi"; in Germany it is called
 "Allerheiligenbrot".

Tropea / Italy - "Piccola Università Italiana"

Learning Italian at the "Piccola Università Italiana" in Tropea /Calabria.

general view of Tropea

The scenery of the ancient town, the temperatures of the south in October, the  water clear as glass and the sandy beach have tempted me immediately. So it was  possible to combine