Sabbatical Blog – The Traveling Tool Kid

(Zipfelmützen translation: pointy hats – like the ones gnomes wear)Finally on Easter Sunday I saw my share of hooded Semana Santa procession participants. We met up with Sabine, a friend […]

Annette and I took had a Girls’ Day Out – sans kid and man – to Malaga today. We spent preciously little time there between the 1 hour drive one […]

As luck – or rather my immaculate planning – has it, we got here right in time to witness the Easter festivities. Semana Santa, as the week leading up to […]

We don’t have Internet access in our apartment in Frigiliana and the Internet cafe has the most inconvenient of opening hours. This one is being posted from an Internet Cafe […]

We reached Frigiliana in one piece – sort of. The car I rented wouldn’t even be considered a car in the US and would probably be called something like “one […]

We made it to Vienna in one piece, or rather three, which is even better. On our last day in India one of the many gods there decided to make […]

Today over Masala crab and Tandoori platter Uli fessed up: he is craving Wiener Schnitzel. Seldom before have I heard such a desire uttered by my Austrian husband, who likes […]

I couldn’t resist this one although it is not strictly speaking travel and/or India related and ventures very close to the forbidden topic of religion but I read about it […]

This blog is much delayed because there was not Internet in Varkala and when we got back last night to Ernakulam a huge thunderstorm had wiped out our Internet there. […]

This is blog is delayed because we went to Varkala, a resort town further south in Kerala. So, we basically went from India to every Westerners idea of India. Or […]