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The Flood
“The melting of the ice sheets had caused global water levels to rise steadily […]. In approximately 5600 BCE the waters of the Mediterranean burst through the land bridge joining Turkey to Bulgaria, creating the Bosporus and flooding and expanding the small freshwater lake to create the saltwater Black Sea.…
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Crazy Time Again In Hong Kong
That was a day, so hard to get a room, even my usual hotel is fully booked that one night. But finally I got a room, and on Monday I can get back into the Day and Night Hotel. It is a crazy time again here in Hong Kong. I…
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Asia’s Colonial World City
Karl May wrote about having been to Hong Kong around 1900… “It rained. The mountains which enclosed the bay were wrapped by clouds. What we’ve seen was so specifically European […] Hong Kong is an English creation”… It was a time a few years before the Peninsula was built, before…
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Vietnamese Coffee
Vietnamese coffee is a bit different from other kinds of coffee. For me personally it is my favourite
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Developing Inner River City
I am so impressed by the development here in Hanoi. There is a new large modern terminal building on the airport, used for international flights, the old one is only used for domestic now. The airport bus is in such a good condition and they planted new palms between the…
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AirAsia Terminal
Third stop in Kuala Lumpur on the way from Jayapura via Makassar, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur to Hanoi
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In Jayapura
The home of the parents of my best friend, a Chinese Indonesian. She stayed here with her small daughter while her husband already had been to Germany to find a job there, when he was successful with that they would go there as well
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Civilised
“The uncivilised has behaved in the highest grade civilised while the civilised thanked in the highest grade uncivilised. As he would be lost if we wouldn’t help him there will also be a time when our whole civilisation will cry for help out of problems it caused by itself.” Karl…
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How To Forget About Traffic Rules
I went by motor scooter over Bali’s roads today. The problem is not the left hand traffic which I know from the UK and Hong Kong already, but rather that I got used to traffic rules before… And if I try to keep a safe distance others are filling it
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Burned, Wet, Tired
I got a sunburn because I walked under the hot desert sun in Dubai, I got wet because walked through rain and permanent humidity in Hong Kong, and I didn’t sleep one night. Raindrops keep falling on my head… First cold rain in Munich and Frankfurt, now warm rain in…
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Dream Destination 55 Cancri E
Astronomers have found a new dream destination: 55 Cancri e, a planet which consists either of graphite or diamond, which is synchronised with its star so it has a temperature of 2000 degrees Celsius on the surface facing the star, it is being kneaded by its star so it has…
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Four Brands Merged
The modern Audi brand goes back to 1909 when August Horch left the company named after him which he had founded five years earlier and started a new company, this time with the Latin translation of his name. In 1932 the brands Audi, Horch, Wanderer, and DKW merged to Auto…
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