"Get your kicks ..."

Route 66 | Arizona | USA | 2008

Get your kicks on Route 66. Give me more at Hackberry Store ....If you can arrange it, make a stop at the beautiful Hackberry General Store.You won´t regret it. I waited the whole time that Elvis will come out of the store and ask me if I wanna have some gaz.

"A big hole"

Grand Canyon NP | Arizona | USA | 2008

If you ask people for a National Park in the US, then you get the answer: "Grand Canyon". And so this National Park is one of the crowdest natural places in the USA.

"Say Hello to John Wayne"

Monument Valley | Utah | USA | 2008

You have seen the famous western movie "Once upon a time in the west"? Then you know how this landscape looks alike. Even if it' s not a National or State Park (it is under governance of the Navajos), it´s one of this unique places on earth, that you have to see before you die.

"Dunes without ocean"

Great Sand Dunes NP | Colorado | USA | 2008

Somewhere in Colorado ... suddenly you stand in front of a big sandbox ... the Great Sand Dunes National Park. Thousands of Miles away from the sea you can find here great sand dunes ... end of may with snow on it.

"Red Rocks and Green Meadows"

Garden of the Gods | Colorado | USA | 2008

The Garden of the Gods was our first meeting with red rocks. Its situated in the west of Colorado Springs. On the nice loop you can see a lot of really red rocks, green meadows and white mountains.

"Last three of family trip" - Part 2

Wilhelma | Stuttgart | Germany | 2007-05

Some weeks before our family had get a fourth member (Tim) we made a trip to the Wilhelma, the Zoo in Stuttgart. The Wilhelma is home to over 8,000 animals from over 1,000 different species and exotic plants from over 5,000 species.

"Last three of family trip" - Part 1

Wilhelma | Stuttgart | Germany | 2007-05

Some weeks before our family had get a fourth member (Tim) we made a trip to the Wilhelma, the Zoo in Stuttgart. The Wilhelma is home to over 8,000 animals from over 1,000 different species and exotic plants from over 5,000 species.

"2.711 concrete slabs reach into the blue sky"

Holocaust Memorial | Berlin | Germany | 2007-03

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman. It consists of a 19,000 square metres site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m.

"The new Berlin Main Station"

Main Station | Berlin | Germany | 2007-03

Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Central Station) is the main railway station in Berlin, Germany and the largest crossing station in Europe. It began full operation two days after a ceremonial opening in 2006. It is now Europe's largest two-level railway station. The main station hall is spanned by a similarly curved glass roof with a surface area of about 85 metres by 120 metres, which was installed in 2002.

"Where East Cross (Ostkreuz) is a Rust Cross (Rostkreuz)"

Station Ostkreuz | Berlin | Germany | 2007-03

Berlin Ostkreuz (German for "East Cross") is a station on the Berlin S-Bahn suburban railway, and one of the busiest in Germany.The station was opened with the Stadtbahn in 1882. Ostkreuz is notable for its appearance: its buildings and track layout have remained essentially unchanged since the 1920s, and its dilapidated state has earned it the nickname Rostkreuz ("Rust Cross"). Since 2008 a lot of these old tracks were modernized.

"From Where the Berlin jews were deported"

Gleis 17 | Station Grunewald | Berlin | Germany | 2007-03

Starting on October 18, 1941 the adjacent goods station until February 1945 was one of the major sites of deportation of the Berlin Jews. The trains left mainly for the ghettos of Litzmannstadt and Warsaw, from 1942 directly for the Auschwitz and Theresienstadt concentration camps. On October 18, 1991 a monument was inaugurated at the ramp leading to the former freight yard. The Deutsche Bahn had a memorial established on January 27, 1998 at the historic track 17 ("Gleis 17"), where most of the deportation trains departed.

"In the middle of the Wannseebahn"

Station Botanical Garden | Berlin | Germany | 2007-03

The Botanical Garden is a S-Bahn station in Berlin's district Lichterfelde. It is on the trip section 8.2 of the Wannsee train near the Dahlem Botanical Gardens. The station building and the staircase were built in Art Nouveau. The staircase was in line with the botanical garden designed as a "greenhouse".

"Lunar Eclipse on 4th of march"

Lunar Eclipse | Ubstadt | Germany| 2007-03

On the 4th of march 2007 it was a lunar eclipse in Germany. I stood with my tripod in the garden and took a lot of pics. Some of them were bad, some of them were quiet okay. But have a look and make your own decision.

"Barcelona: View from the tops"

Skylines | Barcelona | Spain | 2007-07

In January 2007 we made a "child-free" weekend-trip to Barcelona. It was the first time we visited this spain city. Here are some pictures from the Barcelona Skyline taken from different places.

"They dance like their grandparents already did"

Sardana Dance | Barcelona | Spain | 2007-01

We read about the Sardana-Dancing in our travelguide. So we went that Sunday afternoon to the great place in front of the Barcelona Cathedral for watching this happening. Old guys were playing on even older trumpets. And a lot of people were dancing the Sardana.