The days are rushing by sweeping me further and further down South. On Wednesday it was all about roman culture and lots of nice old buildings in the little city of Worms. Thanks to the Nibelungen Saga Worms does not only have approx. 80 000 humans living there but also quite a lot of dragons! [...]

Only 100 kms down South my next stop on my five-day-trip was the state capital of Hesse – Wiesbaden. Just like Koblenz I had never been to this city before and I was pretty excited to check it out. Weather? Perfect just like on Monday. University? The Hochschule Rhein-Main was a little hard to find [...]

Maybe you have already seen them… the city portrays on our website www.study-in.de. Navigating through the map you can read interesting facts about so far 40 cities. Now it’s time to add a few new destinations, smaller once that you might not think of immidiately in connection with Germany. That’s why I’m on the road [...]

Letzte Woche hatte ich die Möglichkeit, mich ein wenig an der Organisation vom World Business Dialog zu beteiligen und muss eindeutig sagen, dass es eine sehr wertvolle Erfahrung für mich war. Ich gehörte mit ca. 140 “Kolleginnen und Kollegen” zum Kongressteam, das als Supporting Team für das 40-köpfige Kernteam diente, das diesen Kongress seit Monaten [...]

„Ho Narro“ the typical Fastnacht greeting can be heard everywhere during Fastnachtzeit.  Fasnacht, or Fasnet as it is known here in Konstanz, is hard to explain Konstanz during Fastnacht time without using words like Wahnsinn, magical, unbelievable, fantastical,  simply Crazy. A week long celebration with costumes, music, traditions and atmosphere that is a full unmissable [...]

Luky Luke illustrator Achdé made me a sketch in his new graphic novel I just bought. I asked him to do me a vulture because the logo of my father´s company is a vulture inspired by the way he is drawing it. Like you can see on the photograph he wasn’t flattered but very French [...]

One of the most interesting things at the Leipzig Book Fair are the author reading sessions. We went to hear two Icelandic authors, a German bestselling fantasy author and an English newcomer promoting her first book. In all of these sessions, the place was crowded with people of all ages. And one time we met [...]

One of many surprises today: a German author presenting a new German novel about her life as a foreigner in my hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand. She talks to an attentive audience of middle-aged Berlin newspaper readers about her latest book. With disbelief I watch as she packs out a soft toy kiwi bird, (national [...]

Enjoy, Olivia & Jana

To have a good view at the cosplay award I was there 45min before the start, then it took them 30 more minutes to begin, and right at this moment I – of course – needed to go to the toilet.  So thank you very much to Mairi who does now all the great pictures! [...]