Everyone who travels experiences stories along the way. Sometimes they are just short episodes along the way, sometimes the whole travel undertaking is worth telling. Most of the time they remain untold and fade in our memory until they are forgotten. Yet many of these stories are entertaining, exciting, sometimes amazing and inspiring. Therefore, some of these travel experiences and travel adventures are recorded here in writing and passed on.
Summer 1989: The mountains in the south of Bulgaria are the destination of the trip – the end of the run of a GDR youth. But in the Pirin Mountains and in the sunny town of Melnik you can also experience something and sniff a piece of the breath of freedom.
The summer of 1989 – unexpectedly the last opportunity to travel through the “socialist brother countries” in eastern Europe. Who was fond of traveling, could also experience some adventures in the “backwater of the GDR”, the German Demokratic Republic (former East Germany). At the same time, the changes of autumn ’89 in the Eastern bloc already announced – Part 1 of the Southeast – Europe – Tour
Losing your passport is a serious situation for travellers. I have experienced this – in Varanasi, the city where India is most Indian, at Maha Shivrati, the celebration of the wedding of Shiva and Parvati, when the city is flooded by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. But India always has miracles in store for me…
The Kanha National Park in India is considered one of the last great retreats for the tiger. A visit to this nature reserve is also otherwise an outstanding experience for nature lovers.
Diu – the small island in the Arabian Sea belongs together with Daman as a direct administration of the Indian government. Formerly Portuguese, today a dry rocky island in the sea. How Indians intuitively avoid wrong ways…
This travel story tells the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a sailing boat in a threesome. From Tenerife via the Cape Verde Islands to Tobago in the Caribbean. Beautiful days and impressive nights in the loneliness of the Atlantic…
Hampi was once the vibrant metropolis of a Hindu empire of unimaginable wealth. Still today the ruins in the rocky landscape impress. A trip there is worthwhile not only for its history, but also for its surroundings and Indian country life on the Tungabadhra River.
Sometimes journeys come about by chance or get a new content. So in this travel story, which was planned with sailing adventures on the French Mediterranean Sea and then ended with a river cruise in the north of France.