Discover the Beauty of Life

Prestwich

2008-06-02T05:20:00.000-07:00

Some weeks ago I made a cycling tour to Heaton Park, one of Europe's largest municipal parks, which is in my neighbourhood. The weather was just perfect!

Poland Winter 2007

2008-05-08T10:17:00.000-07:00

I finally found the photos of my trip to Szczecin, Poland over Christmas 2007. These photos could only be taken because a big Christmas dinner forced us to go outside for a walk at a nearby lake. The lake is called Głembokie (engl.: deep). Since I was a child we always used to go for a walk there.

Caution: Dog on Ice

Flying Dog comes to your rescue:

My doggie makes a mountain out of a mole hill:

Chinese New Year

2008-05-08T09:22:00.000-07:00

Since living here in Manchester I attended 2 Chinese new year celebrations. The first one in 2007 was the best maybe because these kind of celebrations are not celebrated in public by the Chinese community in Germany.Therefore it was so interesting. There are always many food and souvenir stands.

Chinese New Year 2007

My booty ;D

On the way to Manchester

2008-05-04T16:24:00.000-07:00

These photos were taken during my move from Germany to Manchester in September 2006. The car was stuffed with my belongings (nearly my whole room, a plant and a bicycle).
After the 1 1/2 hour ferry drive to Dover we made a break at the white cliffs of Dover. We left the motorway and had to go through a narrow tunnel leading to a platform with a beautiful view over the cliffs...

Arriving at Dover

At the White Cliffs

Narrow Tunnel

A trip to Hannover

2008-05-04T14:13:00.000-07:00

Before we moved to Manchester 2 years ago we made a short day trip to Hannover. It is a very nice city with a Japanese garden and a very nice tea store which is of interest for me.

My First Time in Manchester

2008-05-04T13:33:00.000-07:00

My first trip to Manchester in November 2005 was due to an interview which I had to give, being a part of my application to the Uni of Manchester.

My doggy wanted to come with me...

University

Manchester at Night

China Town

Germany Winter 2007

2008-04-27T14:30:00.000-07:00

On our way to Poland to spend Christmas with our relatives we took several breaks. No wonder, the trip to Poland usually takes 8 hours, therefore my Dad, who drove the car, needed some break...However, we never use guest houses at the motorway - instead we prefer woody places where no one else is.
I had no problems with taking a break after seeing this beautiful winter wonderland scenery. These photos were taken in East Germany...

Car window view

outside the car

Where are these elctricity poles leading to?

Sunset

Dziwnówek

2008-04-27T14:08:00.000-07:00

I've found some photos from our trip to Poland over Christmas 2006. I visited my relatives in Poland. On December 25th we made a trip to Dziwnówek, a town at the Baltic coast, which is just 100km from Szczecin (where my relatives live).
The atmosphere at the ocean was marvellous. Unfortunately, we couldn't make it to the ocean last year.

After a time there was no living soul in front of us.

Gloomy atmosphere...the neighbourhood where my grandpa lives in Szczecin

France III

2008-04-27T13:51:00.001-07:00

Capbreton
Finally by going further south the weather became warmer and sunnier. Unfortunately, we couldn't swim in the marvellous ocean because the waves were life-threatening huge. *sigh*
For those who are interested: The person in the green dress is me. :#>

France II

2008-04-27T13:20:00.000-07:00

Mimizan Plage

Unfortunately, the weather was bad over the whole week.
One day we decided to take a walk along the beach and so we ended up walking about 4 hours.

Endless Beach
Looking to our left...

looking to our right. You can still see our footsteps in the sand. We were the only ones at the beach. No living soul behind and infront of us. Quel atmosphère manifique.

Walking, walking, walking...

Spooky abandoned summer house...

France

2008-04-27T12:57:00.001-07:00

One fine day in Biarritz
Originally we wanted to go to the beach as everyday but the rainy and cold weather forced us to forget about the beach...instead of sitting in our summer house we darted
off to Biarritz (not more than 40 min. by car from Hossegor).

By the time we arrived in Biarritz it was still cloudy but the rain stopped...

after a while it cleared up and we had a lovely day. By looking at the photos I'm really happy that we didn't go to the beach...:D

Lonely Lighthouse:

Flowerly sight over the small port.

Welcome

2008-04-27T12:38:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my blog.spot page.
The topic of this blog is travel, i.e. I'm going to post photos of the places I've been to.
In the summer I'm going to Greece in the area around Athens. I'm very looking forward to taking many photos showing how beautiful our world is.

Which makes me come to the purpose of this blog; it should stress the fact that our existence is not supposed to focus merely on success in university and job. In fact, I've got the impression that mankind concentrates too much on superficial things like media, money and success. It's like we all are caught in a cul-de-sac without realizing it.

This blog should provide an image how our world looks like outside this cul-de-sac. That there is more to life than our society's superficial ideals.
The undeniable fact is: The world and our lives are beautiful. The point is what each individual makes out of it.