Boat Ride on Horsetooth Reservoir – In A Colorado Minute (Week 179)
Just west of Ft. Collins, Colorado, lies Horsetooth Reservoir: the oasis of water, hills, plants, rocks and stunning views of the sky in all conditions. While I had visited the man-made lake (built…
Flushing Meadows World’s Fair (Queens) – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 90)
Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens hosted the World Fair in 1939/40 and 1964/65 and still features several iconic and slightly extraterrestrial seeming structures left from those fairs. Among the structures at the Flushing…
Bohemian Rixdorf (Böhmisch-Rixdorf) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 152)
Dorf Rixdorf (village Rixdorf) or Böhmisch Rixdorf (Bohemian Rixdorf) is a little Berlin neighborhood, which is now part or Neukölln. Originally it was founded in 1737 by Protestant refugees from Bohemia. The main…
Portugal (Algarve + Lisbon) – In Another Minute (Week 69)
This week we made a dream come true and traveled to beautiful and mysterious Portugal. We visited our friends Marisa and Nuno, whom we had met in Berlin last year. Our first few…
Berlin From Above (Tallest Building’s View) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 135)
Berlin from above, as seen from the tallest building, the Park Inn Hotel (not the tallest structure, which would be the TV Tower) is a sight to behold. This was filmed on a day and…
The Narrows, Poudre Canyon (Time Lapse) – In A Colorado Minute (Week 197)
The Poudre Canyon is a glacier-formed valley cut by the Cache la Poudre River through the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Rocky Mountain National Park and Roosevelt National Forest just North…
Tierpark Zoo – In A Berlin Minute (Week 163)
Hauptstadt Zoo Tierpark is the zoo in the former East Berlin, not to be mixed up with Berlin Zoologischer Garten, the zoo in former West Berlin, or Tiergarten, the large park in the…
Berlin Tram Through Mitte – In A Berlin Minute (Week 146)
The view out of the back window of the Berlin tram line M1/M12 zipping through Berlin neighborhood Mitte, from Friedrichstrasse to Zionskirchplatz – passing through Oranienburger Strasse (with Tacheles and the Synagogue) Hackescher Markt,…
