Day 2: Four pieces of cake and one wish The weather improved and I went for the first guided hike - finally! We went up Ahornstein, a rather tiny mountain with an altitude of about 1800 meters. The wind blew fiercely and sometimes rain dribbled down on us - but the harsh weather made stopping for …
Highs and lows in Austria | 1
Day 1: Fifty shades of grey I began checking the weather forecast about two weeks before my vacation. It was then that it started to dawn on me: I was going to be in Austria, in the mountains, where heavy rain can render the tons of fun things you can do outside impossible. But I …
Sunshine is a state of mind: A perfect long weekend in London
I have been to London a couple of times before: the first time I travelled with my parents when I was a teenager (we did the classics: Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Piccadilly Circus, Saint Paul's Cathedral ), after that I went with my English class in school (besides the classics we took a …
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The magic of the seventh second
Science tells us that it takes only seven seconds for us to decide whether somebody is boyfriend or girlfriend material. For me this is a fact that is hard to digest: How can a possibly life-changing decision be made upon a vague and highly superficial impression of a human being, whose character is composed of a multitude of interests, opinions and experiences?
