May 27, 2010, 5:02 p.m., has turned into a milestone for me. The embassy employee responsible for visas at the New Zealand embassy in Brussels left a message on my answering machine letting me know that my work visa for New Zealand had just been granted and was ready for pick-up.
My temporary work visa was [...]
Posts under ‘travel’
New job, new country, new hemisphere
Summer in paradise
I haven’t set foot on my blog for a long time, but enjoyed the summer on the Hawaiian island of Moloka’i. Although I have been back for three weeks already, the summer feeling is not entirely gone yet. It’s rather quiet on campus because many others are on vacation now, and Luxembourg in general is [...]
Offline vacation
y vacation this year is already a few weeks ago, but only thanks to today’s holiday I can reminisce a little bit. This was my first true summer vacation in a very long time. I was on vacation near Toulouse, France, from July 15 to July 28. In the past years while working in Munich, [...]
Meeting Emma
Coming back from a conference in Passau, I had two sensations of déjà vu. The winter storm “Emma” that swept over large parts of Germany on Friday, February 29 (and Saturday) reminded me of “Kyrill” last January. As in 2007, I was caught up in it and had to struggle to get from Passau to [...]
Street name in Paris
This picture does not need a comment, I think This street can only exist in Paris, right?
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Dieses Bild benötigt eigentlich keinen Kommentar, glaube ich. So eine Straße kann es doch nur in Paris geben, oder?
