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Hiking in Etxauri – Spain
Navarra, Spain, December 2019. Etxauri is a Basque village near Pamplona in Spain and the mountain is popular with rock climbers. We drove half way up the mountain, parked up, and simply followed a path to the top of the mountain. It was steep and a bit slippery since it had been raining in the […]
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Very soon one or both of my grandparents will pass away. I went over to Germany to spend time with them. Since they are both in care homes, I stayed in their flat. I visied them during the day. We talked about nice memories. I told them that I might never see them again. As […]
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My worst photo from India
This is a photo of Jama Masjid (Mosque) in Delhi. The photo was taken at about 8 am on a Sunday morning in November. The mist is deceptive – it’s not mist. That morning the pollution levels went to the highest level ever – this was the most polluted air anywhere on Earth that day. […]
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Curiosities
Basically anything that caught my attention …
We spent a week in a red house by a lake in Valhalla, Sweden. It was autumn and the leaves were bright yellow. Three days later, the leaves had all fallen to the earth. We walked along paths picking up yellow birch leaves. As we watched the seasons change around us, we spent time in […]
I wondered around the Museum Für Islamische Kunst (Museum of Islamic design) in Berlin and I was immediately in awe of this world of detail. In the same way that there is an awe in the vastness of space, I felt an awe in the opposite: a universe of small, intricate detail. Much of this […]
I spent a long weekend in Berlin specifically to see the theatre play but the time was important to reconnect with my creativity and sense of freedom. It’s been a few years since I’ve been in Berlin and a lot has changed. I can hear more English as a common language for communication between people. […]