Otoño en Kreuzberg

Weather was great during the last weekend of September. I went for a short walk around here and got a few nice shots that will be showing here in the next few days, including a couple in my Serenity series.

Alemañol

De vez en cuando mis hijos nos regalan perlas de ese maravilloso idioma que es el alemañol. Por ejemplo, (entonando la canción) Cumpleaños viel Gluck!

One year ago

One year ago I was in Xi'an (China) and Hanoi (Vietnam), on a business trip. This year I would have had to go to Athens in a couple of weeks, but I kindly declined due to private reasons. The photo above was taken as I strolled away from the touristic center on my own. By the time I was really far away from my hotel, the battery of my camera said enough is enough, so I took this photo with my mobile (actually two photos stitched).
When I returned home, I bought a spare battery, which has served me well on a number of occassions. Still, all the batteries in the world do not help if you forget your memory card...

Jaque mate

My daughter has started learning how to play chess at school. We had a go at it some days ago and she still has to learn a few basics. For example, that it is ok to take your opponent´s knight and you do not need to worry about the horse´s well being. And that crying when somebody takes your Queen is not required. I did not foresee that and had to hug her while she was sobbing at the view of her Queen by the side of the board. I was trying to make the point that you should watch where you place your Queen, a chess board is a dangerous place. Luckily for me we did not finish the game, as her brother came with the brilliant idea to swipe clean the board in one single move of the arm...

Berlin 2011

Already 10 years living in Berlín. And so many wonderful things have happened in this decade...

Cast Iron District

Stolzes Käseland

We wanted to see how cheese is made in one of the local shops. To my big surprise, they had this up on the wall, in German. No idea where they got it from, but it was a nice fit to our multilingual family.