#5 How my World Trip really Started
I had already been on the road for an entire week, but it somehow didn’t feel like traveling. First, I had traveled through Germany visiting friends. Then, I explored Moscow -the Russian capital- with...
Category: Europe
#4 My last days in Germany
About ten years ago, the first destination of my world trip was Bonn – from 1949 to 1990 Bonn was the capital of West Germany. Before leaving my home country for nine months, I...
Where was Merlin in 2018? The owly annual review
Shortly before the year 2018 comes to an end, here is a brief owly annual review. If you are interested in articles or videos about the individual trips, please write it in the comments!...
[Erasmus+] Es runāju latviski – 3 weeks of intensive Latvian language class
It’s not easy to participate in an exchange program to Latvia. All the time someone is confused which country you’re talking about. Latvia? Lithuania? Estonia? And where the hell is it? Actually, it’s not...
Small Big Ben – 3 pictures from my flight to London
I was very lucky on my flight to London Heathrow. There were only few clouds and a lot could be seen from the airplane. I usually don’t put my camera into the overhead compartments...
A short résumé and report on the ITB Berlin
The ITB in Berlin the world’s leading travel and trade show. It opened its doors for about a week for trade visitors and during the last weekend the public had been allowed as well....
How much does it cost to travel Latvia?
I went to Latvia in the last summer and like in any other trip I’ve logged all my expenses. So here’s a one week sample trip: General: Lunch/dinner 3.00 – 7.00€ Water 70 –...
Border control on French-German border
After the tragic terror attacks in Paris France temporarily re-introduced border controls. As I travel to France quite frequently to go shopping because my parents life quite close I experienced the first “real” border...
A bit of Warsaw
On our way back from Latvia to Germany we briefly stopped in Warsaw. The total route is about 1700 kilometres, so having a bed for the night felt quite well. Besides sleeping in a...
Turaida Museum Reservoir
The Turaida Museum Reservoir is about an hour by car or train from Riga. Besides a castle there are gardens and a cave to explore. I just found out that I don’t really blog...
Backpacking is my favourite "hobby" and here I write tips, tricks and reports about it. 
