Ever since moving to the island, my travel times within Germany have vastly expanded. Living close to the Danish border, even a simple trip to Hamburg will take about four hours. Four hours with no wi-fi, bad cellphone coverage and little distractions in a beautiful, but flat and repetitive landscape: The perfect place to get […]
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Travel Reconsidered
[This is my second Moderate Proposal for Daunting, Delightful and Dilettantish Deeds to Pursue in 2014. See the introduction and part 1.] It’s 7:26am on a Sunday and I find myself waiting with wet hair in the middle of a winterly breeze. People around me look either bored or tired, some of them are still […]
The Real Reason You Need to Turn Off Your Cell Phone on Airplanes
Newsflash: Keeping your cell phone on during flights won’t make the plane crash. It won’t make the world explode. It won’t cause danger to you or any bystanders. And still it has been prohibited since the early 1990s. This could change now. From all I can tell, it looks like the days of cell phone-free […]
Link: The Coming (Carfree) Artistic Revolution
I’ve been holding a driver’s license since 1999, but rarely ever used it. If I’ve driven more than 7.000 kilometers since then I’d be surprised, and this includes 3.000+ kilometres on one single trip to France back in 2000, and another 2.000 kilometres just three weeks ago, from the most-Northern part of Germany all the […]
Life and Business Lessons from Colombian Street Vendors (3): What A Burger Flipper Taught Me About Expectations
What do you expect when you go to a fast-food joint? A) A filled belly. B) Quick service. C) Low price. D) A tasty meal. E) All of the above. We’ll find out in this post of my “Life and Business Lessons from Colombian Street Vendors” series! Burgers for Dromologists “You think McDonald’s is fast? […]