the gas station philosopher

two days in Valencia

Valencia seems big but not too big, modern but not too modern, opulent but not too opulent, burgeois but not too burgeois…

Tarragona and a look back

here I look back almost 50 years at the same streets, houses and windows of Tarragona were I grew up. The little…

Kochel am See and The Franz Marc Museum

The frozen dew in the late autumn covers the fields and trees around the Kochelsee and…

The Glindower Alpen in Potsdam

Not far from Berlin’s tumult of trafic, people, concrete and graffiti, the Glindower Alpen in Potsdam…

Berlin and the Kreuzberg

The Berlin Ostbahnhof north of the former Berlin Wall sets a pivot point between the DDR time pre-fab concrete…

Berchtesgaden and the Watzmann

the Watzmann smiles to us with missing teeth from his high stand over Berchtesgaden like an unworried…

the end of the warm season and the last punch

as the warm season is gone and autumn is well underway, nature makes a last…

a slow stroll through Munich and the afternoon sunlight of autumn