ghost of nature.

i'm a sucker for all things sea-related, but the same counts for mountains. the taunus mountains are a low mountain range in my area, with the highest peak being 879 metres ( großer feldberg ). these mountains are no less charming because of that. one of the reasons is that they bear a lot of beautiful valleys, such as the wispertal or all the little valleys that lead you to the big middle rhine valley. oftentimes i just start my car for a cruise on the mountain streets, they are really scenic with steep rock walls framing them. what i also love about the taunus mountains are the little villages in the back-country - with much of nature surrounding them. the older i get the more i want to move out of the city again and into the 'wild' - at least back to more remote places which are still attached to a more elemental way of living. my ideal place still would be a little village by the sea, but i wouldn't say no to a mountain dwelling as well. oh, dreams, you are too f...

in the middle of may my parents visited me on vacation ( i had to work, unfortunately ) and whereas we didn't see as much as we normally do when being together, we made our way to worms on my day off and it outweighed the lack of adventures by far.  worms is full of myths & mysteries, history & beauty. it is a city that is said to have been the centre of the kingdom of the german burgundians in the 5th century and was probably the setting of one of the most famous german myths: the song of the nibelungs - which tells us about the story of siegfried, the dragon slayer . scattered all over the town are signs and sculptures of this beautiful myth, reminding you of siegfried's fight with the dragon and his love for kriemhild , the fight between kriemhild and brünhild at the cathedral of worms & hagen dismantling siegfried's secret of the linden leaf, killing him and then throwing the treasure rheingold into the river rhine. every year the nibelungen festival...