Stories
My articles and stories range from personal thoughts to true stories with pictures of my wanderings across the planet. Links to all stories can be viewed in this text version if this page takes too long to load. Stories can also be browsed in the following ways: (1) by theme; (2) by photos; (3) by timeline/country bubble. Some stories come up with an additional full-screen photo version (there's a link within the corresponding story). The list of all full-screen photo stories is available on this page.
Photo restoration with artificial intelligence
Things I changed my mind about
A beginner’s guide to playing the ukulele
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Säntis: the mysterious mountaintop
The Babouches of the Arabian Nights
It was supposedly an easy hike
Now is the perfect time for dating
Interesting coronavirus charts
The Burmese sand painter of Bagan
Australian Gifts 19 Years Apart
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9 Years at Google – And the Beat Goes On
Darth Vader’s Swim with Turtles
Charminar’s Charm in Hyderabad
The Secret Lives of Sand Bubbler Crabs
The People (8 years at Google)
If your note bears a resemblance to your coat
The floating fortress of my soul
War is a suffocating dead-end tunnel
Crash starts with the letter C
Eclectic bytes in electronic bits
Caodaism in blue, red, yellow, and white
The last condors of California
Asocial and dumb – but so cute
Ephemeral reality – and imagination
A major water temple up in central Bali
Saint Patrick’s Day in San Francisco
The long walk of the white elephant
Farming seaweed – or fishing for tourists?
If I had such a nose, I'd amputate it!
The Rock at the End of Bali Land
Carpe Dream – A Californian Winter
And the Oscar of the best decorated rickshaws goes to
The world’s steepest cogwheel train
Colourful Buddhism on a Hindu island in Muslim land
For the love of distant cities
The mythical, mystical, magical Borobudur
Be a hero – only if you’re ready to drown
Yogyakarta’s underground mosque
Fleeing the wave of Islam in Indonesia
Flirtation in an Indonesian minibus
The spicy story of an Ind(ones)ian epic
A traditional Indonesian village
Wanderings among Javanese rice fields
Riding into the Javanese night
Glancing back – Jakarta, Indonesia
Dancing to make dreams come true
The Darth Vader tuk-tuks of Thailand
Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas
Batman and the staircase paradox
Taquile island on Lake Titicaca
The first American women-owned community centre
Pachacutec, the "earth-shaker"
Sailing on Lake Titicaca, Peru
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Mad Peruvian policeman in Lima
Salt from deep, deep down in Salineras, Peru
But the leaves are still green
Floating islands (Los Uros) of Lake Titicaca
(Un)Classified listings in Puno, Peru
Monastery of Santa Catalina, Arequipa, Peru
Final train stop – at 3,800 metres above sea level
Circular Inca terraces, Moray, Peru
The prettiest cloister of Peru
Between tradition and modernity in Peru
El Misti volcano, Arequipa, Peru
Library of the Convent of Santo Domingo
Are there limits to freedom of expression?
Skyscrapers, Central, Hong Kong
How do you manage your digital pictures?
Celebrating 5 years working at Google today
Five musicians with only one instrument
Anaa adruss al-lugha al-Arabiya
