In vino veritas or how to blissfully spend a day It was the morning after my late arrival in Cape Town in the night before, so I was pretty tired in the morning. But after a shower and a coffee, we were ready and excited to start the day and went via Uber to the […]
Category: Destinations
Hiking Table Mountain
Visiting Table Mountain is a must-do when you’re in Cape Town. You wouldn’t visit Paris and not see the Eiffel Tower, would you? So even though it was winter in Europe, of course, I wanted to hike up the famous landmark, 1000 m of altitude seemed doable when I sat at my desk at home […]
Sunrise at Lion’s head
Catching the first light of the day kissing Table Mountain is a classic hike for Capetownians and travellers alike. I started my day very early, my hiking guide Kai said we’d meet at 6 a.m. at the car park at the foot of Lion’s Head. Fortunately, it was much easier to get an Uber even at that time of […]
South Africa
The trip begins… South Africa is a beautiful country with an eventful history. It was colonized first by the Dutch and then by the British and it gained independence in 1931. While Europe fought against racism during the following years and closed this chapter with the end of World War II in 1945, discrimination and […]
Gempen, near Basel
After-work hike near Basel When you tell people you live in Switzerland, they often assume you live in the mountains. Reality though is different because the alps cover only a part of the country. 🙂 But the area around Basel has some soft (and some not so soft) hills to offer and the hike to the […]
