Santa Maria della Salute
Santa Maria della Salute is a Baroque church in the Sestiere Dorsoduro in Venice at the entrance to the Grand Canal. It is one of the two votive churches in Venice, built on the occasion of a plague epidemic in the city. Information about taking this photo Where to find
The mystical Coco de Mer
The fruit of the Seychelles palm is a giant nut weighing up to 20 kg. It is only found on two islands in the Seychelles and is therefore very rare. There are about 5000 specimens in the Vallée de Mai on Praslin, where these photos were taken. In 1983, UNESCO
Giant turtles on La Digue
It is said that nowhere in the world are there as many giant tortoises as in the Seychelles. They are undoubtedly among the most extraordinary creatures on earth. After becoming extinct in many habitats, they still survive in the Seychelles today. The oldest of them, the world-famous Esmeralda, is said
Leipzig, my beloved hometown
What is “Heimat” (home)? I grew up in Leipzig, spent my childhood in this city and studied at the university here. Then I moved to Berlin, where I have now lived longer than I lived in Leipzig before. And yet Leipzig is still my hometown. It’s a great city: cosmopolitan,
Dentist in a lost place
It’s a pity that these wonderful buildings have been empty for a long time. What has this dentist’s chair been through? Who has suffered on it? Who has been relieved of excruciating pain? Who dragged that heavy chair into the corridor? These buildings are full of questions. Information about taking
Concert by Yann Tiersen
I love the music of Yann Pierre Tiersen, the French composer and multi-instrumentalist. In 2001, he had his worldwide breakthrough with his film music for “The Fabulous World of Amélie” and the German film “Good Bye, Lenin!”. Tiersen’s striking musical style combines the most diverse types of music. Most of
Lounge Concert by J.S. Ondara
Years ago, singer-songwriter J.S. Ondara moved from Kenya to the USA. His debut album “Tales Of America” was released at the beginning of 2019, and he travelled to Europe for the first time in his life to promote it. The Berlin station “Radio Eins” invited him to one of the
Usedom, bathtub of the Berliners
Usedom is the second largest German island. With an average of 1,906 hours of sunshine a year, Usedom is the sunniest area in Germany. The perfect holiday destination is the 42 km long and up to 70 m wide fine sandy beach of the Baltic Sea coast. It is no
Cretan pottery villages
As late as the 19th century, the whole of western Crete was still being supplied by about 50 potter families in Margarites with the same clay vessels that filled the magazines of the Minoan palaces three and a half millennia ago. In every Cretan household there were several of the
Spreewald, filigree inland delta
The Spreewald, about 100 kilometres southeast of Berlin, is a unique landscape. As a result of the last ice age, the Spree divided into an extensive network of watercourses here. A large inland delta with wet meadows and forests and over 1,500 kilometres of watercourses was created. This area not