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Japanese kitchen is of course much more than just sushi. But sometimes you want to have a real good sushi, so I have some casual and some special places for enjoying sushi. One of the more special places

Saigon or Ho-Chi-Minh City is a place for good food, nice people and... scooters. Never have seen a place which is made so much for scooters instead of cars. Even the parkings in the commercial centers

It’s just a toy train, but the accident was dramatic anyways. After building up a difficult connection where the rails had to be built around a high mountain with some deep valleys to cross, we have opened

Today we have again a nice and strong sun. I love these days when you get a feeling of the upcoming spring. So I remember last year, when I’ve been at a friends place for celebrating the May Fire. The

The Summer in South-Western Germany is warm and slow. There’s a lot of nature and a lot of water. The old sidearms of the Rhine river between Karlsruhe and Basel are nature reserve and wild growing forests.

It’s so nice to have a more or less free weekend. No tasks, no appointments, no timetable. Waking up at 9:30. It’s still winter time and a little bit of fresh snow has fallen tonight. Fresh eggs from friends

Sorry, it’s not a video. But when we had recently a very cold periode in the February winter, I had the chance to walk around a lake in the Harz mountains area in Thuringia. It has been minus 10 degrees

This who like sweet stuff like cakes and cookies I recommend to go to Japan and visit the big department stores. There you will find places who live the philosophy of fine bakery. The cakes are little

On the way to the beach you pass from time to time the weekly markets next to Passeig de Joan de Borbó. Normally I am not so much interested in these kind of markets, more impressive is the steady Mercat

When I came home yesterday, I‘ve already heard the sound of my poor vacuum cleaner. Whenever he gets stuck, he sending a kind of „ping“ sound. This time he didn’t recognize the stairs and fell down. Luckily

Last weekend it has been very cold in Germany, at least for German standards. Anyways, minus 15 degrees at night time (don’t know how much it is in Farenheit) is cold. But as we had a clear sky and a lot

Another place I love in Barcelona is the Bar La Confiteria. Hidden at the south end of Raval quarter it‘s a place for amazing cocktails and longdrinks which are served by a highly motivated team in a cozy

My company is friendly and giving me a Boxster S as a business car. I have to attend lots of appointments in Europe to which I often use the car. So every year I am doing around 50.000 KM or 30.000 miles.

For our IT services we were using a large number of servers in three racks. There has been another failure location. So altogether some hundret of servers, endless cables for networking and electric power.

Always when I watch my photos I am fascinated by the iconic patterns and forms of the items at the Asakusa Temple in Tokyo. I‘ve taken the photos last New Year’s Eve and I love to watch them. The figures

Bathing and bubbles, we have all liked it when we have been children. Also as mature. Or maybe it’s the child inside us. That’s the business idea of the LUSH shop in Shinjuku. They don’t just offer bathing

I‘ve a good friend who is owning a vineyard in Southern Germany, Palatia („Südpfalz“). He‘s a cool and brave guy, and a passionate winemaker, since his family is making wine for generations. He‘s brand

I am using my corporate iPhone, but I have never purchased songs from iTunes. I’ve a huge collection of songs as mp3, and I prefer to copy my actual favorites to my smartphone, which is also connected

Last time being in Barcelona my friends have taken me to the little hidden bar Dux in the El Born quarter. Inside it’s warm and cozy, and it’s the style of an secret place to enjoy drinking in the times

Winter time in Japan means ski and onsen. When I am in Tokyo in January or February I always try to get some days off and go to Akakura Onsen district in Myokokogen, near to Nagano. Myokokogen Akakura