The Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia is a stunning natural wonder, renowned for its cascading lakes, waterfalls, and lush surroundings. It was granted UNESCO World Heritage status in 1979, reco...Read More
The traditional big five on safari in Africa are the elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard and rhino. I spotted some of them but there are also other big creatures, such as the girafe, the Kilimanjaro, the...Read More
A food forest is a diverse planting scheme consisting of various layers of canopy trees, fruit trees, vegetables, berries, fodder plants, spices and others. Food forests are a new sustainable farming ...Read More
Montenegro has its name fromthe Venetian ‹montagna negra› but should actually be renamed as it is dominated by all kinds of shadesof green rather than black, especially in the mountains an...Read More
The remote valley in the Canton of Ticino, with picturesque villages inhabited only in summer time today, attracts fascination because of the numerous rocks that have shaped villages and were even int...Read More
Indeed it is. While Sars-Cov-2 and its exotic mutations are spreading and limiting everybody’s life massively the heavy snowfall end of January 2021 further limited mobility by grounding all veh...Read More
While in 2017, when World War 1 raged through Europe, D.H. Lawrence published the poem «Autumn Rain», 113 years later we face the dreadful waves of Covid-19 raging through most parts of the ...Read More
Zwischen dem 18.8 und dem 15.9.2018 experimentierte ich auf der Schossmatte (2’126 m.ü.M) mit dem Einsiedlerleben und hütete ein paar Fotos. Über Jahrhunderte bot das Hüten von Kühen auf de...Read More
Romania is full of small villages and historical towns. Sheep, Palinka (the local plum brandy) and touristic sceneries are the essence of life in the Romanian countryside and the people’s genero...Read More