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I had this romantic vision of Cuba, a tropical country with beautiful beaches, langoustines, fruit shakes, mojitos, cigars, old American cars, buenavista soc...

Laredo it was this time, many know the city at the shores of the Rio Grande (and its little sister on the Mexican side, Nuevo Laredo) only from drug movies o...

Somehow time flies, but we assume, all of you know that. Between all the climbing in the USA and an exciting time in Mexico this blog entry almost fell betwe...

It was a warm and sunny late March when we crossed the border into California. There were some “special circumstances” with a Russian family that stopped pro...

The regular readers might remember that our previous blog entry ended with the promise to continue where we left off, which was: “We left our I-94’s (US perm...

We reached Squamish, just an hour north of Vancouver, after a long drive south through Yukon and British Columbia on the Stewart - Cassiar Highway, the only ...

It took us almost two months to leave the wider St. George area, there is simply too much climbing, life is easy and the weather is great - but by mid May we...

We knew a lot would be different as we touched down on a sunny morning on 20-Dec-2016 in LAX. AA170 carried the three of us across the international date lin...

Arriving in a new country always requires a certain acclimatisation period, not because of the climate but because of the subtle differences in daily life. M...

OK, I stole that line from someone else on Facebook but it really felt that way. We had such a great time back home in Austria and Switzerland, seeing friend...

Turkish text with English translation in red after each paragraph! Evimi on numara hazırlıyorum . Yiyecek bırakıp evi böcek basıcak diye didik didik bakıyoru...

Turkish with English translation in red! T.shörtümle 25 derecede bir kar küresinin içinde yürürken buluyorum kendimi . Hava normal sıcaklıkta hiç üşümüyorum...

The smell of freshly prepared bulgogi (barbecued meat, Korean style) wafted up my nose while I was trying to climb through the crux of a beautiful route on M...

This article was published in the June, 2016 edition of Mountain Magazine in Korea. The original can be found on the web-page of Chosun (click here). 잘 나가던 I...

Without counting the visa runs from Laos it was the third time we entered Thailand on our trip. We crossed the friendship bridge across the Mekong near Vient...

Turkish text with English translation in red after each paragraph! Şimdi gezmenin iki tane şok eden etkisi var . Birincisi bazı yiyeceklere uyuşturucu gibi b...

And here we were again, in the lush green hills of Laos with the occasional bamboo hut village and the even more occasional red dirt road leading off from th...

Turkish text with English translation in red after each paragraph! Çin sınırına gelirken kocaman binalar hoşgeldin diyor . (Laos tan sonra büyük bir şok ) Ve...

Here we sat again on the tiny plastic stools at Shao Ni’s food-stall next to the old entrance gate to Getu river and its famous arch and devoured the obligat...

Tibet and especially Lhasa had something mystical for us and all sorts of images fuelled by movies like “Kundun” or “Seven Years in Tibet” and the western pr...