Southeast Asia Part 1: From Frankfurt via Bangkok to Siem Reap and Angkor Wat
On 30 January 2018 we set off from Frankfurt on a round trip through Southeast Asia. One important note before we start: all the prices I mention here are what we paid in 2018. Some things look very different today – a few have become a lot more expensive, others are actually cheaper. Wherever I’ve […]
City trip – Budapest
This time we headed from Stuttgart to Budapest for a spot of Christmas shopping. The Christmas market there is said to be one of the prettiest in Europe, and we wanted to see that for ourselves. We’d been comparing flights on Skyscanner since the autumn, and found the cheapest with Wizz Air at €58 per […]
Balkan Part 3: Kotor
Early in the morning, it was time to say goodbye to Mostar. Before setting off on the nearly 200 km, four-hour drive, we grabbed one last breakfast at Pekara Fresh on Braće Brkića 18. Well fuelled, we first had to leave Mostar’s streets behind before hitting the beautiful roads winding through mountains and valleys again. […]
Balkan Part 2: Mostar
After a light breakfast early in the morning, we set off on the roughly two-and-a-half-hour drive to Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Beforehand, we topped up the car with fuel in Croatia using euros – in Bosnia and Herzegovina, you pay in Convertible Mark (KM), which we didn’t have on us yet. We crossed the […]
Balkan Part 1: Dubrovnik
On 5 May 2025, we set off from Memmingen Airport to Dubrovnik – the start of a bigger Balkan road trip that also took in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. Seven days on the Adriatic, deliberately planned with a hire car rather than a ready-made package. Getting there – a tiny airport and next to […]
Part 3 of the Thailand Trip – An Unplanned Stopover in Muscat
Our last night in Bangkok, at the Skyline Resort near the airport, refused to settle down. The looming goodbye sat heavy on both of us, and at some point, instead of lying awake, I checked my emails. That’s when the shock hit: one of my flights had been cancelled. The Midnight Message By 0:30am we […]
Part 2 of the Thailand Trip – Chiang Mai by Night Train
From Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal, we carried on heading north. After three days on the River Kwai, Chiang Mai was next on the itinerary – reached by night train, an experience that’s a story in its own right. The overnight train to Chiang Mai We booked our tickets through the official website of the […]
Thailand Part 1: Bangkok and Kanchanaburi – Riding the Death Railway to the River Kwai
In February 2024, it was off to Bangkok from Frankfurt. The plan for this trip was to visit Kanchanaburi and Chiang Mai. I flew out on my own – my girlfriend, who lives in Thailand, came straight to Bangkok, and from there we carried on together. The flight and getting into Bangkok I searched for […]
US West Coast, Part 3: Lake Tahoe and Santa Cruz – Our First Halloween and a Wave That Caught Us Cold
After a few wonderful days in the desert, we were soon heading somewhere higher up – Lake Tahoe. But before that, we got to experience Halloween in person for the very first time. Halloween in Costume, Trick-or-Treating Halloween itself is really just one night, from 31 October into 1 November. In the run-up, though, houses […]
US West Coast, Part 2: Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon – Desert Light and the Finest Drive of My Life
San Francisco was behind us and the desert lay ahead. Nothing in this stretch of the trip would have fitted into a package programme: an airport dedicated to Snoopy, three nights between neon light and national park, a drive I still consider the finest of my life – and a Grand Canyon we didn’t pay […]
