Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren’t no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst;
For the temple-bells are callin’, and it’s there that I would be …
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India South to North
This travelogue was written in 2013 almost twenty years after my trip. I was only able to reconstruct many details from photos and postcards. It’s more a collection of anecdotes that left a lasting impression. Described are the more exotic parts of my return journey from Japan overland (where I had lived for four years) as far as Vienna ✈ This way …Winter 1993/4
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India West to East
On the Path of the Buddha’s: „You travel, you rich, you pay!” ✈ This way …
Autumn 2008
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Cambodia and Laos
Initially designed to be a collection of “holiday snaps.” (Phnom Phen: Tuol Sleng prison, National Museum. Siam Riep: Angkor Wat), Paksé in southern Laos pluse the beach of Lamai (Koh Samui, Thailand). ✈ This way …
Oct. 2009
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Temples of Japan
Going back after fifteen years. ✈ This way …Sept. 2010
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Thailand
Trying to spend some time as a Buddhist monk in Thailand was a “wash out” during the great flood 2011 ✈ This way …
Autumn 2011
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Georgia and the Caucasus
Go there! Within one hour after arrival I was deeply in love with Georgia:
First time: ✈ This way …
… a second time folgte bald, 2015: ✈ German only
then a … short trip 2017. ✈ German only2013, 2015, 2017 …
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Central Asia, the “…stans”
Seven weeks in 2014 and three weeks 2024 through the former Soviet republics: Kirgisia, Kasachstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan. ✈ This way …
Autumn 2014, April 2024
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Australia
Once upon a time, “when I was young,” on Australia Day 1988, I stood in Sydney under the Harbour Bridge for the bicentennial celebration of the colony and said to myself: “I’ll be back for the 250th anniversary.” Thirty years on I realised that I am unlikely to reach that age, or at least won’t be in a condition to travel the way I used to. Therefore I had another look earlier. I must say the decline I witnessed was dissapointing – alas that story is available ✈ German onlyNov. 2017 – Jan. 2018
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To Egypt
(German only)
Middle East 2019: Overland from Munich to the pyramids of Gizeh, through Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and the Zionist Entity. Ending with a pleasant break in Spain. That trip is ✈ described here (German only)
Herbst 2019
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Graffiti
Plenty of nice pictures: Graffiti, nothing but …2019 onwards
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☣ Locked down ☣
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2020–2021
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Three loops through Europe
🚍 to Georgia in March
🚍 to the Bretagne and Irland in May
🚂 to former Yugoslavia in June2022
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Morocco and Mauretania
By ferry accross the Meditarranean, down the coast of Saharan Africa as far as Nouakchott. On the way back one week in Benidorm. All in all 9500 km 🚢 This way …
Autumn 2022
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Short trips to the East
🚂 Western Ukraine, Sept. 2024
🚍 Belgrade, Oct. 2024
🚂 Belarus, Jan. 2025Autumn 2024
If you’ve ’eard the East a-callin’, you won’t never ’eed naught else.
No! you won’t ’eed nothin’ else
But them spicy garlic smells,
An’ the sunshine an’ the palm-trees an’ the tinkly temple-bells …