Planking – In A Berlin Minute (Week 61)
Planking aka the Lying Down Game aka Face Downs apparently has been around since 1997 – but has gained more popularity over the last two years in England and then Australia – and…
Poudre River Swim – In A Colorado Minute (Week 225)
The Cache la Poudre River is a refreshing oasis that snakes its way through Fort Collins, Colorado. It’s just a quick bike ride from our house, and it’s been our quick go-to refreshment…
My Mother’s Flower Garden – In Another Minute (Week 169)
To me this may just be the most beautiful place in the world: my mother’s flower garden (Der Blumengarten meiner Mutter) in the Haseldorfer Marsch (seen in week 19), just outside of Hamburg….
Tour de Fat (Fort Collins) – In A Colorado Minute (Week 226)
Tour de Fat is a traveling celebration of “beer, bikes and bemusement” organized by the employee-owned Fort Collins brewery New Belgium and taking place in almost a dozen cities around the USA throughout…
Drive-In Movie Theater – In A Colorado Minute (Week 227)
Fun highlights of this and last year’s summer have been our evenings at the Holiday Twin Drive-In Movie Theater in Fort Collins, Colorado. Making it a romantic date or a whole party with…
Devils Tower aka Bear Lodge (Wyoming) – In Another Minute (Week 228)
Devils Tower in northeastern Wyoming is a powerful sight to behold. Rising 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding mellow hills, forests and grasslands and with the summit at 5,114 feet / 1,559…
Olympic Village Berlin (Olympisches Dorf) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 119)
The Olympic Village Berlin in Elstal was the first brick-on-brick Olympic village and is therefore the oldest Olympic village still in existence. It was built for the 1936 Olympics. In the beginning, it was…
Reichstag – In A Berlin Minute (Week 170)
The Berlin building referred to as the Reichstag (officially: Reichtagsgebäude) today houses the Bundestag, which is the name for the German parliament. It was originally opened in 1894 when Germany was still the…
