Articles and posts of topic travel

75 Years – 75 Memorials – Stage 5: The Oderbruch Soviet memorials

Stage 5 of the photo project “75 years – 75 memorials” leads me to the very important Soviet memorials of Oderbruch region, where Red Army crossed Oder River for the first time back in the beginning of 1945. I start this ~90 kilometres ride in Küstrin-Kietz, cycle on the Oder dike Oderdeich to Kienitz, Groß Neuendorf and Letschin as well as Manschnow, Reitwein, Lebus and Booßen, to finish in Frankfurt (Oder)… Read More

75 Years – 75 Memorials – Stage 2: Berlin’s Southeast

Stage 2 of the photo project “75 years – 75 memorials” on May 9th, the Russian Day of Victory, that is Den Pobedy, the memorial tour leads from Blankenfelde-Mahlow via Glasow and Zeuthen to nearby Wildau, then up to Erkner and Grünheide as well as to the memorials in Woltersdorf and Schöneiche… Read More

75 Years – 75 Memorials – Stage 1: Berlin’s Northeast

Stage 1 of the photo project “75 years – 75 memorials”, on May 8th from Berlin-Buch via Bernau, Seefeld and Blumberg, to Ahrensfelde and Berlin-Marzahn, as well as Alt-Hohenschönhausen, Berlin-Lichtenberg, Berlin-Rummelsburg to Berlin-Treptow, where main celebrations take place… Read More

Penis, Cock and Meat Rifle – Bhutan’s Phallus Cult

When travelling the Kingdom of Bhutan, then the country appears everything but being R-rated, as countless penis drawings hail from houses and walls. That phallus cult and its traditional  depictions shall scare away the evil and promise fertility. Bhutan’s willy cult originally goes back to Guru Drukpa Kunley, the Divine Madman.… Read More