How it's done!

The German Railway system is very sensitive towards a few snowflakes, lower temperatures or weather as such. The "usual suspects" blamed for delays, interruptions or cancellations are too cold, too wet, or too hot weather conditions, or there may be leaves on the tracks...

Eat this, Deutsche Bundesbahn!

Driving 800kms for Breakfast

Typical German brekkie.

It was a very special breakfast, and lasted until well after noon... Sonja's mom's big birthday party, with friends and family united. Knowing our mom all too well we could be sure that there would be no shortage of food, and we ended up taking home a full bag of Tupper-wared left-overs.

Happy big Birthday, Mom

HitchBot does Germany

HitchBot, the famous pint-sized Canadian robot, which bravely hitchhiked across Canada from Halifax, NS to Victoria, BC in summer 2014, has gotten itchy feet again. Its new endeavours will take it to Germany, where one of its creators originated from. The robot has learned the language and seems to be eager to travel down the Autobahn at full throttle. The journey will start in Munich February 13th and end February 22nd. (special TV coverage on PRO SIEBEN "Galileo" 19:05).

Bon voyage, HitchBot. We hope you'll have a blast!

A Sunny Winter Afternoon

It rained, and rained. A lot. All week. Around freezing temperatures. All in all no fun weather, not even much fun to drive. However, Sunday morning the clouds gave way to blue sky. After having been confined to indoors for so long we were eager to go for a hike. Above 600m the wet stuff turned into white stuff. The snow made crusty noises under our feet as we followed the trail uphill and visited our most favourite place in the Black Forest, All Saints Abbey. We even spotted wildlife! A day that compensated for all the poor weather of the last week!

Into the Woods

The other day we had the most beautiful weather and decided to go for a short walk through the forest. What a good idea, as we had the most beautiful light! Luckily I had brought my camera to capture a bit of the magic!

New Camera (Again!)

Sonja allowed me to purchase (another) new camera! I was having so much fun with my Fuji X-E1, but it was such a hassle to continuously having to change lenses, so Sonja suggested that I should get the camera I originally was going for but could not bring myself up to buy due to its quite high price. So here are the first results from my brand new Fuji X-T1! I love this camera! So intuitive and easy to use, very light weight, but still shooting fantastic photos! What a great start into 2015!

Double Exposure Feature!

A first attempt at very long exposure. Will need some practice!

Sonja likes the camera, too!

Our favorite ruin!

I seem to love trees against the sun...

I wonder if the guy noticed that he lost something?!

One of the canons the Swedish "lost" in our home town during the Thirty-Years-War

Almost Carnival time again!

Snowmen on our New Year's Day Stroll

As every year, we started this year again with the good intention of getting a bit more fresh air. So we used the beautiful first day of the year for a litte walk in the snow around our village. We were greeted by quite a few Snowmen on our way!

Blue skies, white snow and black trees

An exceptionally gorgeous Snowwoman!

... and another one!

And while I was fascinated by some very red berries...

...Sonja built her very own Snowman :-)