Category: General

No new posts about travel or photography in the near future

Hi folks, as you might have noticed, I didn’t publish new posts since May 2020. The reason for this is, as you might think, the Corona pandemic. I cannot travel anymore as often as I would like and I cannot plan anymore. Any travel I’m planning in advance could be cancelled or restricted. Therefore, I decided to put my project Snoopy Alien into the “on hold” mode. But the Corona crisis is not the end of this website, not at all! In fact, I have some more ideas how to keep this project alive, and I’ll be back when the time is right. Until then, I’ll keep Snoopy Alien alive because I worked very hard on creating blogposts and it deserves to live on. See you, folks. Max

What is the best olive oil in the world?

When you travel to countries like France, Greece, Spain or Italy, you might surely want to bring some souvenirs back home. Arrived there, you have a choice: to buy some useless dust catchers or something useful which you can really benefit from, like food stuff from the country you have visited. One of those useful things I always buy when I travel is olive oil. But it can be an inscrutable market out there, and you don’t want to bring some fake stuff with you, right? To avoid this, you might ask yourself what is the best olive oil in the world. Well, this is for sure very subjective but let’s consider it from a less strict point of view. In this article, I’ll give some tips about olive oil you can buy when you travel (or at least online after your journey). And who knows, maybe it will not be the best olive oil in the world for everyone but for you which is more important So read on, folks. Types of olive oil To answer the question what is the best olive oil in the world, we need to delve a bit into the types of olive oil first. There are two categories of them – refined olive oil and so-called cold pressed olive oil (also known as native olive oil) Refined olive oil Refined olive oil is extracted by adding of heat and chemicals to the pressing process. This method is used to extract more oil than…

These facts about German carnival will broaden your horizon

In case you visit Germany* in January or February, you will probably often hear a word during this time which is “Fasching” [faʃiŋ]. Fasching is the main term for the German carnival period. It’s also called the “fifths season” and in some places jesting time (närrische Zeit). But it’s very different to the carnival you maybe know from Brazil. For in February in the northern hemisphere, it would be difficult to dance on the streets in light clothing. Therefore, the carnival time in Germany is about different things, but it’s also a huge event. In this article, I’d like to give you some insights about Fasching which would broaden your horizon. So read on, folks.

7 English words in Germany and their different meaning

Since the english language became a business language, some of its vocabulary got adopted by a lot of countries around the world. In some places more, in other less. Sometimes, it’s even unavoidable (think about the IT and the internet). This led to the fact that in a lot of countries neologisms were invented you actually won’t find in the english speaking countries. In other countries you will find the same words but with a complete different meaning. Germany, as an export nation, is one of those countries, where English is more present than e.g. in France, Italy or Spain. Maybe that’s why here you will find a bunch of english words, you might be confused with as they have different meaning than in the real English speaking world. Therefore, I’d like to introduce to you the most common of these words in case you’d like to travel to Germany*. So read on, folks.

6 German beer fests besides Oktoberfest

If it comes to beer fests in Germany, the Oktoberfest in Munich is the biggest German folk festival and it’s the most famous fair in the world. That’s why this folk festival goes beyond the borders of Germany. For instance, only in the United States there are over 100 copies of the original German Oktoberfest taking place. Meanwhile, there is even in China an Oktoberfest in the city called Qingdao. Allegedly, the Oktoberfest in Cincinnati, called “Oktoberfest Zinzinnati” ist the best of all US copies. I’ve never been in Cincinnati and I cannot compare it with the German original. And if I even would have been in Cincinnati, I could not compare it because I never went to the Oktoberfest in Munich. The reason for that is, that to me as a German, Oktoberfest is nothing special because there a lot of folk festivals spreading across Germany. Actually, almost every German town and city has its own fair. Therefore, I would like to introduce to you some other famous folk festivals in Germany which are at least as good as Oktoberfest.