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Bienvenidos ! Last station Colombia, we recharged our batteries in La Boquilla, a lovely small fisher village by the Carribean Sea near beautiful Cartagena and enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere in Colombia which has suffered from severe serious issues in the very past, mainly in the sector human rights. Luckily and impressively, the situation has massively changed for the better, thanks to President Uribe.We can only encourage everybody to visit the country, we promise you'll get enchanted immediately. Bogotà, a class of its own, people are fun-loving, cusrious and always muy amable. A perfect finish for our trip ! Right now we are again freezing like chickens in a fridge in good old Germany, we didn´t expect it that cold ... fortenately we brought the sun in our hearts :) We want to thank everyone for accompanying ... read more

Dames y Caballeros ! Que estan haciendo ? Aren't you people bored yet by our ""funny"" reports and pictures ? Of course not, you wouldn't have tuned in if you were, de acuerdo ? How is home/work/family life doing, no struggle or strife at the frontline ? Good to know ... as you know we're always concerned about you. Ok, let's get ready for a new episode of the trip around the small small world. El Señor de Sipán ... who is this, any ideas ? Let's start with the country as such .. Peru, we dived into and thru this enchanting marvellous piece of earth ... and have to disappoint you heavily. We successfully skipped and cancelled the world-famous sites like the legendary lost city of Machu Picchu, the Inca capital Cusco, El Valle Sagrado ... read more

Queridos Amigos, did you have a kick start into 2009, or are u still heavily afflicted with severe hangover syndroms since new years eve ? Certainly not, I guess business as usual is dominating our lifes all over already again. Same for us, well not really, let's put in the famous 'same same but different' phrase. We corssed the border to Paraguay on the last day of 2008 and stranded in one of the unpretentious cities of the world, called Encanarcion. While being there we took the unique chance to celebrate the most unsensational new years eve EVER ! The expression 'celebrate' might be a little displaced to really express what happened, or should I say, what didn't happen. But ... (as usual there's always a but), we found amusement and looked positively into a brighhht ... read more

Chicos y chicas, gringos y gringas! ¿Cómo estan? Tenemos un rato grandioso en la Argentina ... in other words, we're enjoying very fruitful moments with the Gauchos, Mariachis, Panchos, Nachos etc. in lovely Argentina. After spending a few days in Buenos Aires, we saddled our horses and headed west, straight into the Cuyo region, west-central Argentina. By chance we picked the province Mendoza nearby the famous, imposing Andes and spent 10 days in the capital to spoil ourselves with the finest wines and world-class bife de chorizo and feed ourselves with la lengua argentina. Argentina has really experienced tough times in the past and the proud diva hasn't been treated well all the times .. but she's doing well and u can fell it in the streets. Once ruled by the Inca empire, then colonized and ... read more

Kia Ora dear people (meaning Hello in traditional Maori) ... After gunning through the north island of NZ we learned that the ancestors of the Māori were a Polynesian people originating from south-east Asia. Some historians trace the early Polynesian settlers of New Zealand as migrating from today's China, making the long voyage traveling via Taiwan, through the South Pacific and on to Aotearoa (New Zealand). The name "Maori" originally meant "the local people", or "the original people". First european settlers from Australia and Great Britain arrived around 1790, These first settlers normally established peaceful relations with Maori communities - they had to, if they wanted to maintain lucrative trading relations. As of today, the "white people" plus a vast amount of asian migrants are living amongst Maori and accepting Maori lore and conventions, communal living ... read more