Kategorie: Allgemein
Val Bavona – the rock valley
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
Is a double lockdown possible?
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
Covidised autumn 2020
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
Schossmatte 2’126 m.ü.M
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
Romanian village life
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
Wooden churches and a merry cemetery
Maramures county is the northern part of Transilvania in Romania where impressive wooden churches were constrcuted in the past two centuries. They were a response to the ban of the Catholic Austro-Hun... Read More
Unwanted guest visits Goms
During the recent Covid-19 lockdown an African sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) visited the pond near Geschinen, a rather rare spotting of such a bird in Switzerland. It is believed that the bir... Read More
The old streets of Tbilisi
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