Something about me
How big are the odds?
We had just left Kruger National Park behind us. It was kind of strange to be back in civilisation and to see so many people. We weren’t used to that after two days of safari. But it should get even weirder, we were about to enter eSwatini, formerly known as Swaziland, which is the microstate […]
So this is Africa
Finally back on the road again! The last months had been dominated by my idea to start working as a freelancer which is why I found it quite hard to believe that I was now finally getting back on a plane. In that very same morning, I had had my last call, later in the […]
Stories of jungle, jokes and murders
I had never seen a tarantula from this close before. The spider was hiding behind the fire-warmed brick of our improvised jungle kitchen and had not caught our eye until it put one of her hairy legs around the corner. First one leg, then the second, shortly after I can see four of them moving […]
Gimme some rythm baby!
“Che preparateeee, vamos a hacer quilomboooo !! ” Ricardo screams into my ear, “Get ready, mate, we’re about to blow it”, would probably be the right translation. We have formed a big group of people on the dance floor and start jumping up and down and spinning. “Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey,” most Argentines are smaller […]
Battles of South America
Tsssshhhhhhh, I get a full dose of foam right into my ear, I hold my breath and try to spot the aggressor. The attack came from the group of the little boy with the green baseball cap, not really a big surprise as I had thrown a massive water bomb on him just a couple […]
The deadly beauty of Bolivia
Boooom! A few hundred meters away, a load of dynamite goes off, I can hear the muffled noise of the explosion, but it doesn’t really impress me as I am way more worried to find my group again. Something must have exploded in my shaft as well, there is so much dust in the air […]
Different Faces of South America
A bumb in the road wakes me up. The night bus must have driven through a pothole. I’m looking at my cell phone: 6.13 am, waaaay too early, I think. I keep trying to sleep, but the pothole was just one of many. I open up the curtain and am suprised how nature has changed. […]
A surprising country
It was the day of departure. Uruguay is located on the other side of the Rio de la Plata, you can easily get there by ferry. I wanted to go in the afternoon, in order to still have enough time in the morning to visit the Cementerio de la Recoleta, Buenos Aires famous cemetery. Most […]
The warmest welcome
It was still in cold Berlin December when I wrote to Miguel and Guillermo. Before that, we had only sporadic contact, actually only after every football match between Germany and Argentina, I think they did not like my messages too much. “Hey guys, I’m coming to Buenos Aires, shall we meet for a beer?” We […]