Region: Europe >> Italy
It took me a while, but now it’s finally here. YouTube banned the Video in certain countries and I had to reduce the size from 5GB to 500MB for the Vimeo upload, which resulted in some technical problems as well. But now it’s ready, so have fun 🙂
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The Huffington Post is a huge online-news site and I thought it would be a good way to make more people aware of my blog. Since it doesn’t hurt to ask, I got in contact to see if they might be interested in an article about Couchsurfing, as they did not have anything on that topic yet. Luckily for me, they liked the idea and I could start writing!
My East Europe Tour from last year turned out to be a great foundation to give an insight about the topic. However, the 800 word limit did not allow me to go into any details of the trip itself, but I will definitely get a Travel Report out for this in the future. I am very excited that the article is finally online in their Travel section, go ahead and check it out by clicking on the picture!
Region: Africa >> Tanzania
Travel time: 2012, June 20th to June 23th
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“This night will be very cold on the summit, expect -20°C“, Nelson warns us and we fill up our camel backs with hot tea water, even though we know that this won’t help much in six hours when we hopefully get close to the summit. We check our head torches and off we go into the night, following all the other lights in front of us. King William shouts out “Pole, Pole!” (Slow, Slow!) but in reality, we actually have a reasonable speed and pass one group after the other.
Region: Africa >> Tanzania
Travel time: 2012, June 15th to June 19th
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“Right where you are,” our guide says, “is where the man died in the landslide.” I look at him in utter disbelieve and continue slogging through the alpine desert, 4.000 meters above the African plain. Climbing to Mt. Kilimanjaro’s snowy summit is a once in a lifetime experience for some and the start of a mountaineering career for others. I’m not sure which group I belong to just yet, but I will certainly share my experiences on the world’s highest free standing mountain.
I’m happy to announce that I just finished writing my Travel Blog about the Kilimanjaro Trek from June this Year.
I will split the 4000 words into two parts, release the first one this friday and the second part with the video next friday. It was lot’s of work but also great fun to go through the whole trip in detail again, even if it did take some sleeping hours away in the last nights. 🙂
Cheers
Chris
Region: Europe >> Great Britain
Travel time: 2012, July 27th to July 28th
I picked a very good time to move to London as I was able to get very close to the Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony in Stratford. The pictures of the big firework and the Newton Faulkner concert in Hyde Park convinced me to write a little bit about the last 3 Olympic days in my new hometown. Read the rest of this entry »
Hey folks,
I just wanted to let you know why my blog is not very active at the moment: I’m currently on my 3 weeks vacation and will return to Frankfurt in 2 days after successfully climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. I have also been on a Safari in the Serengeti Area and been chilling at the beautiful beaches of Zanzibar. Currently, I just returned from a Desert Safari in Dubai and the trip will be over very soon.
Region: Europe >> Germany
Travel time: 2010, June 3rd to June 6th
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The Elbe Sandstone Mountains, located in Saxon Switzerland, are a beautiful mountain range close to Dresden, Germany. I spent some days hiking on the Malerweg and even tried to bake bread using a camping cooker for the first time. Read more and check out my short video clip to see how it turned out 🙂 Read the rest of this entry »
Region: Europe >> Belgium
Event: Groezrock Festival
Time: 2012, April 28th
