london in february: day 4.

the last day in london was a hard one. as in saying goodbye to this bustling town. because on the last day london showed itself from its best side. the sun was shining and we decided to roam through spitalfields ( shoreditch area ) and brick lane before we had to head to heathrow for flying back to germany.

spitalfields mesmerized me a lot. all the brick houses and urban surroundings - it felt very artistic & young here. there are so many good little shops and cafes here and everything is full of art, in every corner! some markets opened when we made our walk, markets for everything selfmade! food, clothes, vintage, antiquities. and there was so much i would have liked to buy. unfortunately time was gnawing on us, so i declined buying the tastiest foods, cheeky selfmade clothes... next time!

i'm really missing london. i never thought that overall i would love to come back again. i don't like huge cities, and london is sheerly massive and not at all overviewable. but still, it caught my heart really deep. i think it may be the only super city that i would ever want to live in.

early morning gherkin.

unicorn ripped in two.

suzzle cafe.

i really loved this.

heron building.

i wonder if that art has something to do with mythological background. my mind imagines something buddhistical.

old st. patrick's school doors.

the girl and the cat.

brick houses and modern architecture.

eerie and derpy.

guy fawkes street art.

day of the dead skull.

blue dove.

kinkao -a thai food restaurant. i tell you... next time i'm going to eat there, the food on the website looks absolutely delicious!

a little flatiron like building :D

another oppositional neighbourhood.

and really the last picture of our journey to london. above the clouds. flying was beautiful!

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november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

ghost of nature.

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