Time with friends I’m visiting my home country of Germany right now and it’s always lovely to be here. Despite the fact that it’s often quite challenging to deal appropriately with all the expectations of family and friends, I mostly enjoy...
Last Sunday I flew from San Jose, California to Düsseldorf, Germany and had a layover in Heathrow. Usually I don’t really pay much attention to airport terminal design, but despite all bad predictions, we managed to get our connection to...
Last month I blogged about the utility art boxes I found around Campbell and San Jose, California. This public beautification program “Art Outside the Box” is designed to transform plain, grey traffic control utility boxes in Campbell, into works of...
Water towers in Mendocino We just got back from a wonderful road trip to Northern California and Oregon, which I will probably tell you more about in the next couple weeks. On our last day we checked out Glass Beach...
A walk along 4-mile beach I have to catch up. On Father’s Day we made a trip to Santa Cruz. First we had breakfast at “Café Brasil” on Mission Street. Its’ rated the #5 place for breakfast & brunch in the area....
… from a 2 week break. Well, I wasn’t on vacation, but life was busy with teaching a German summer camp, working on a couple other assignments, spending time with my kids and enjoying summer. These things had priority over...
4 hours in San Francisco Yesterday I went to the city. I should do this more often. I love being in the city. I’m a city girl. I had coffee and cinnamon toast at Trouble Coffee Co. in the Outer...
I saw the challenge and this photograph came to my mind immediately. I took this shot more than 5 years ago in La Jolla, California, a beautiful and also trendy and very posh community of North San Diego. In the late...
You can find them all over town now. They bring an explosion of color and whimsy to the streets of Silicon Valley and smiles to the people passing by. Common grey traffic utility boxes that are turned into art pieces....
I don’t even know what the title of this blogpost is gonna be yet, but I feel I have to write my thoughts down this morning to get some clarity. Sometimes, living in the Silicon Valley really sucks for me....