For apparent reasons, I have a great deal of time on my hands at the moment that I try to use pragmatically: improving my physique, reading books, learning a new language or an instrument from scratch.
Learning to play guitar was one project I pursued for some time in my early 20s, but I abandoned this hobby in favor of other activities and eventually for the time-consuming endeavor gaining … read more
The Dolomites mountain range1 is a place I’ve never visited before, though the region is not really far off from my home in Bavaria: with the Eurocity connection about four hours from Munich to Bolzano, and about five and a half hours to Verona.
As someone who hiked and climbed almost exclusively in the High Tatras in Slovakia in the last two years, the difference in appearance of … read more
During the apex of the pandemic a few months ago a remote family member passed away quietly in a nursing home where she had been living in her last years. She was well over ninety, and due to the circumstances at that time only a very small … read more
