Just as every year, May has somehow quite some holidays, and we’ll have a couple of long weekends. This weekend was the first one, bridging to the labor day (although the labor day is Tuesday and somehow our institute is…

Exactly 6 months ago today, we did our very first weekend trip to Traben-Trarbach. Here is what I wrote right after the hike: …I’m now not so sure if I’d organize another trip in the near future. This is because…

It took several days to fully recover from my birthday party last week. Maybe partly because of the age, but maybe also because it went on for a couple of days afterwards, as Eduard, an old friend of mine from…

After yesterday’s my 30th birthday party, at 9:30am. I was lying in my bed, completely dead. I got up, helped Perle to clear up the dishwasher, and went back to bed. All the others (there were some people staying over…

The summer-ish weather of last week crumbled quickly this week, towards Easter. It reached the minimum today. When I got up this morning, it was raining. The sky looked like politicians: gray, not really clear what it wanted to say.…