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turnagain Januar 30, 2018

&BEYOND XUDUM Okavango Delta Lodge

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There is a world out there that is so much more beautiful than the one we normally live in. A world without roads, without noise and pollution, a world where the greatest gift is a sunrise over the grassy waterways of the Okavango Delta. I am back in Africa and it hits me right in the heart. So much originality, so much landscape, so much warmth. So many good-hearted people, so many wild animals, maintaining a last ecosystem in peace that began thousands of years ago and may have disappeared sometime. Yes, I am in the middle of Botswana, on the lookout of my &BEYOND Xudum Okavango Delta Lodge Suite, gliding my gaze across the plain, always hoping to find elephants.

turnagain Januar 29, 2018

Grindelwald, Switzerland

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One almost gets the impression as if the Swiss had turned away from one of their most spectacular landscape stages and left the village of Grindelwald entirely to tourists from Korea, the Emirates or the US. Only at the mountain, high above the beautiful Bachalpsee, one meets them again and enjoys with them a painting of glaciers, peaks, legends and tragedies.

turnagain Januar 28, 2017

Badrutt´s Palace, Switzerland

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The morning mist still sticks like cotton candy to the wooded slopes of Piz Mezdi, while the rising sun bathes Lake St. Moritz in warm, soft light and creates a touch of melancholy in me. Are you actually happy or rather sad if you have to delete a part of your bucket list? Badrutt´s Palace in St. Moritz is a living legend that has enchanted generations of travellers and yet sits timelessly enthroned above the greenish shimmering lake.

turnagain Januar 27, 2017

Lofoten Norway, Part 2 Reine

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After the ascent to Ballstadheia I already weighed myself on the climax of my Lofoten trip, the panoramic view over the fjord landscape around Leknes was so unique that I almost ran out of letters. But today’s 120 kilometres from Svolvær to Reine should eclipse everything that has existed so far. I was served a picture-book summer’s day, which occasionally raises the thermometer to a record-breaking 19 degrees. I’m even about to apply sunscreen and for the first time I’m really happy to have chosen the low season from May to mid-June as travel time, because there’s not much going on on the streets, in the few cafés and restaurants and in the accommodations. In midsummer you will certainly need elbows and lots of luck and patience due to the limited availability.

turnagain Januar 26, 2017

Lofoten Norway, Part 1 Svolvær

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Even the flight to Tromsø, which is close to the Lofoten Islands, in early summer resembles an Arctic acclimatisation. While Lufthansa just gave me a „downgrade“ of -10 degrees Celsius on my way from Munich to Oslo, SAS added a shovel on the following 1,200 flight kilometres and adjusted the air conditioning to the outside temperature, so that I finally reached the rain-wet taxiway of Tromsø with only 6 degrees Celsius.

turnagain Januar 25, 2017

The Draycott, London

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From capital to capital – from an abandoned parking deck in Berlin Wedding directly into the secret garden of the Draycott Hotel in Chelsea London. The day could not have taken a greater turn when I think of the recent hectic moments at the film set for my client´s new spot and compare it to the peaceful atmosphere at one of London’s finest private parks. And the best thing is that I’m in the middle of the beautiful district of Chelsea and the fine shopping streets, restaurants and galleries around Sloane Square are just a sneaker tip away.

turnagain Januar 23, 2017

Stockholm in winter, Part 2

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The day kicks off early with a lost Olympic final in ice hockey and if this sudden death after overtime wasn´t pain enough, the next blow follows immediately. Without warning, I slip on the glassy cobblestones of Stockholms Riddarholmen and can be happy that my fall was completely unobserved. But maybe I should check on YouTube later?! The -11 degrees stun on the spot and I drag myself to the beautiful vantage point, the Evert Taubes Terrass, where the panoramic view extends from Södermalm to the striking Stadshuset.

turnagain Januar 22, 2017

Stockholm in winter

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You are in Sweden, when the singing national monument ABBA welcomes you at the airport with an original performance of Fernando. It is already night in Stockholm and a clear starry sky watches over the snow-covered streets of Gamla Stan, the old town and nucleus that lies like a mini-island between the north of Norrmalm and the hip Södermalm.

turnagain Januar 21, 2017

Skiing in Aspen, Colorado

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The climate change has now taken even the snow-spoiled city of Aspen in its lukewarm headlock. The high plateau of a stately 2,600 meters is wetted only with a slight layer of sugar and the four magnificent ski resorts Snowmass, Buttermilk, Highlands and Aspen Mountain have melted down to half.

turnagain Januar 20, 2017

Sonnenalp Hotel, Vail Colorado

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Vail or Aspen? Not an easy question, as both resorts belong to the Champions League of the Alpine circus and were the venue for numerous World Ski Championships, like Vail in 2015. The photograph of star guest Felix Neureuther still adorns the ancestral gallery in the Sonnenalp Hotel which belongs to the German Faessler family for 5 generations.