Travel Reports

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Aurelius Augustinus (354 – 430)

 

You’ll get an overview of all my destinations here. While my first three travel reports are written in german, all the upcoming ones will be done in english. I marked those ( ) and also the trips that will most likely not get a report at all ( ).

visited 28 states (12.4%)

 

08/2011  East Europe Tour
3-Week Tour starting in Vienna through Bratislava, Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki all the way to St.Petersburg and Moscow.

08/2011  Switzerland Hiking
Hiking in the Valais Alps to Europe’s highest summit which can be reached without any climbing gear: The Barrhorn (3610m).

06/2011  A Weekend in Hamburg
I finally had time to visit Hamburg after I did some trainings there for one of our customers at work.

05/2011 Portugal Road trip
Roadtrip through Portugal, starting in Faro and driving along the Algarve and West coast to Lisbon and Porto with a detour to the Peneda-Gerês National Park in the north.

05/2011 Skydiving Weekend
Group Event with 60 friends to do massive Skydiving in Miltenberg, Germany.

12/2010  Adventures in Egypt
A work colleague planned to pick me up from the airport in Cairo and organized the whole trip but ultimately I didn’t meet him at all so it turned out to be pretty exciting vacation.

12/2010  Belgium
Couchsurfing trip to our neighbor country to drink beer at the Delirium bar in Brussels. (and see the city of course..)

09/2010  Czech Republic
This trip was very spontaneous after breaking up with my former girlfriend. I used car pooling for the first time to get to Prague for 20€, Pub Crawling there rules

08/2010  Sweden Road trip
Discovery tour in the beautiful Swedish nature with a rented car and my tend. We came across Copenhagen, Malmö, Gothenburg and Stockholm.

07/2010  Switzerland Hiking
Follow up trip after Austria to explore the Swiss National Park. Unfortunately I got sick pretty early and had to cancel.

07/2010  Rafting in Austria
35 friends of mine joined me to do Wild Water Rafting at the “Imster Schlucht” (level 3) and “Ötztaler Ache” (level 5) in the Innsbruck area.

06/2010 North Tyrol
Trip to Bavaria to see the Neuschwanstein Castle and hike up the Säuling (2047m).

06/2010  Elbe Sandstone Mountains
Beautiful trekking tour called “Malerweg” in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains near Dresden, Germany.

03/2010  Italy
City sightseeing in Rome and Pompeii, strongly supported by Couchsurfing Hosts Ylli and Elena.

10/2009  Couchsurfing in Spain
My first trip with couchsurfing, checking out Barcelona and the island Mallorca.

10/2009  Netherlands
Another short trip to Amsterdam.

06/2009  France
Short trip to Paris for a Weekend.

10/2009  Spring Break in Croatia
First big group event with friends in Frankfurt – we decided to hop on a party bus from Munich to Umag for a weekend of drinking

10/2009  Germany
Checking out our Capital City Berlin in detail.

02/2009 A Journey to Gran Canaria
Get-out-of-work trip to the Canary islands with two work colleagues.

09/2007  Fighting in the UK
We crossed the channel to see UFC75 live in London and had some time to see the city as well.

07/2005  USA
Got there for a Gaming tournament in Dallas and decided to postpone my flight back for 1 week to see New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

06/2004  China
Another Gaming Trip to Shanghai to represent Germany at the ACON4 event.

10/2003  Gaming Olympics in South Korea
My first ever long distance trip to Seoul to play for Germany at the World Cyber Games 2003.