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Brigitte Moser and Nico Moser Brigitte and Nico - two Swiss in search of some fresh air after having spent almost 20 years in one or another stinky classroom.


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Retrospection: Siberia, May 2005. While we are wandering along the icy shores of Lake Baikal Kim and Richard aka Cumberland Sausage tell us about this new cool site called travelblog. Laos, two months later, 35 °C warmer. We are uploading our first blog in a Vientiane internet café. 25 more are to follow. Basel, summer 2007. After the end of our trip our blog culminates in blog number 26 and herewith comes to an end. Since then - much against our will - our travelblog has been on standby. But was it really the end? No, now for a second time [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 23rd 2008 | 582 Views | [diary=347816]

Derwent Water jetty
The wedding dancers
Castlerigg stone circle

Off to new shores
Off to new shores
As far as my feet will carry me.
Around the world in 716 days Not nearly as determined and swift as Phileas Fogg but still 366 days faster than Fernando Magellan's expedition we have completed our journey around the world. And as it happens to be if you follow a circle you end up at the point where you once started. So we are back in a world of busy people, easy meals and useless tv-series. We have the feeling that - apart from private things (including some real tragedies) - not much has changed. People's routines and everyday life are still very much the same which makes it [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 2nd 2007 | 1909 Views | [diary=135582]


Statues
Statues
Watching the goings-on in busy Gran Via.
Back in the old world Soon after landing in Madrid we could smell it. The smell of the old used land. The smell of leafless trees and a winter breeze. The smell of ancient kingdoms and venerable churches. And as we moved on we could smell the smoke and the coffee in the allyways of the old town. The smell of heated shops and busy people moving between them. The smell of Europe. Modern ancient Europe. We were back. Has anything changed? Nothing has changed. Not in two years anyway. Public transport works mostly well but people like to traffic jam. [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 31st 2007 | 508 Views | [diary=135581]

The Royal Palace
Town gate, Toledo
Alley, Toledo

Welcome to the Favela
Welcome to the Favela
This old man is visibly enjoying his daily(?) hour of fame.
The infectiousness of abuse On the back of a motorbike we are curving up the mainroad of one of Rio's infamous favela neighbourhoods. In my ears still sounds the mocking voice of this big black fellow with rasta look singing "Do not be a gringo, be a local, do not be a gringo..." (The motto of our tour operator) while I observe with amazement one of our tour members taking one-handedly a dozen pictures per second without looking through the viewfinder of his Nikon D2 at all. As I need both hands to hold myself on the bike and still have [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 28th 2007 | 1072 Views | [diary=135580]

Mocidade samba shool
Walking up the Favela
Dancing Queen

"W(h)ine for me, Argentina!" Coming to Argentina from Bolivia it took us three days to get used again to proper supermarkets, decent roads and fast internet. Those were three enjoyable days. By the time we left Salta, January had started and with it the summer vacation time. From now on we would spend most of our time either riding a bus (and staring at a never ending shrubby plain) or waiting for a bus (staring at whatever moved by). And when we finally arrived at a place, tired from the bus ride, shocked by the crowds and annoyed by the prices [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 9th 2007 | 784 Views | [diary=124023]

Winery in Mendoza
Tango
A lot of penguins

Suffocating in the Gore Tex® My first impression of Patagonia was that of an endless and boring steppe. A landscape with no hills, no trees and no fun. When I was waking up in the morning on our bus journey from Puerto Madryn to Rio Gallegos it came to me as a bit of a shock to see that nothing had changed. 1000 kilometres of the ugliest landscape imaginable. Could this be the famous Patagonia? The dream of adventurers? The nightmare of early explorers? Well, it really is part of Patagonia (quite a big one, actually) but of course this is [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 18th 2007 | 1063 Views | [diary=127140]

The Torres at sunrise
Glaciar Grey
Austral pigmy owl

The two Bolivias "I know two Bolivias, one is populated by people with black hair and black eyes. Those people are short in height, they don't work too hard and like to keep to themselves. But there is a second Bolivia where the people have blue and green eyes, are tall and open minded and this is the Bolivia, where I come from." When the freshly elected Miss Bolivia travelled to the United States to "represent her country" a stunned Andean nation had to listen to those words which did not only promote the (in the Altiplano) very unpopular idea of [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 30th 2007 | 920 Views | [diary=115082]

Convent Felipe Neri
Peace
Girl

On the Death Road with Sissi and the space cadets Every morning a couple of cyclists gear up at La Cumbre, the 4700 meter pass outside of La Paz to whiz down what has officially been declared the most dangerous road of the world. A relatively narrow gravel road, with huge drops on one side and waterfalls spilling onto it from the other side, which plunges down 3300 meters (over only 80 kilometers) to the misty valleys of the Yungas. According to our guidebook an average of 26 vehicles disappear each year into the great abyss which earned it the inglorious [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 3rd 2007 | 1135 Views | [diary=98561]

The space cadets
Rio Yacuma
A member of the crocodile family

Huayna Potosi and the lights of La Paz
Huayna Potosi and the lights of La Paz
Looking down on the highest capital of the world.
Above the clouds It was certainly the earliest breakfast in my whole life: 11pm. Maybe you could argue that it wasn't a proper breakfast: A bit of bread and a cup of coca tea had to do. But early it was. Six hours later - it is still dark - we are standing at 5900 meters above sea level ready to tackle the final ascent to the peak of Huayna Potosi (6088m). I am sure now that I would make it to the top. The air is thin up here and for many climbers this is the hardest part - a [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 21st 2006 | 921 Views | [diary=111675]

The final ascent
Hooray!
Above the clouds

The back door to the Lost City Sitting on the upper terraces of the guards house - the spot where "the picture" was taken to bring fame to the rediscovered lost city of the Inca empire - I watch some clouds rolling in over that sacred place hiding it in a cloak of mist. Seconds later the evening sun breaks through and its light is reflected by the humid air in a ray of colors. With the crowd gone and the shifting clouds the only movement (except for a couple of ill-placed llamas and three or four guards, unmissable in their [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 13th 2006 | 1010 Views | [diary=98560]

Girl
Cusco Cathedral
Beggar, Cusco



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