Freetime

Being in San Francisco

November 6, 2011
SFO, Freetime, vacation

Being in San Francisco # I spent the last two weeks together with Thilo in San Francisco - and neighboring areas. I had asked beforehand for recommendations on where to go and what to do, had purchased a “Rough Guide to California” as well as a “Lonely Planet guide for San Francisco”. In addition I shared my arrival and departure times with a few people I know here. As to be expected our schedule quickly grew until it exploded, so we ended up doing greedy optimisation stuffing things in and putting them out again while we went along. ...

Dear lazy web: Travel recommendations

October 21, 2011
Freetime, vacation

Dear lazy web: Travel recommendations # Finally getting to spend some days of vacation in the bay area soon - so I thought I might try to leverage the lazy web on recommendations on what not to miss while there. So far on our list: Rent a canoo in Sausalito Take a tour to Alcatras Get to drive down along the coast towards Half Moon Bay Spend one or two days strolling through the city to take photos ...

Teddy in Amsterdam

February 20, 2011
amsterdam, Freetime, teddy

Teddy in Amsterdam # On his trip from SFO back to Europe teddy spent a few days in Amsterdam. He brought back the following pictures of bikes, cheese and the canals: Going to Amsterdam usually is pretty darn dangerous: I tend to return with some toys added to my collection of puzzles. Somehow I tend to be drawn to the shop called Gamekeeper selling them even when I do not remember the exact address or even just the street name:

Teddy in Brussels

February 14, 2011
Freetime

Teddy in Brussels # Not much time here, except for a brief view of the atomium from our bed&breakfast place in Brussels and a few very beautiful churches:

Teddy in San Francisco

February 10, 2011
SFO, teddy, Freetime, General

Teddy in San Francisco # Before attending O'Reilly Strata there were a few days left to adjust to the different time zone, meet up with friends and generally spend some days in the Greater San Francisco area. As was to be expected, those were way to few days. The weekend was a bit rainy, still packed with visiting China town right after the plane had landed and spending some time at . ...

White Christmas

December 25, 2010
snow, Freetime, winter

White Christmas # Christmas brought “a little surprise” to Germany last night: The result this morning: a few cm (as in about 20) of snow - that is a white christmas everyone had been looking forward to. Just one question: Where to put all that snow when digging out my car? ;) Thanks to snow clearing services streets are all white but well drivable. Other than that lots of time for enjoying the white weather. ...

Frau Holle, Frau Holle

December 5, 2010
snow, Berlin, Freetime, winter

Frau Holle, Frau Holle # Winter arrived in Germany - below a few pictures I took last Thursday morning: Seems like this season winter is trying real hard to prove that I am wrong saying that there is no real winter in Berlin with just about a week snow on the streets ;) Guess its time to get the tires with spikes back on my bike.