Driving by the Dortmunder U

Taken from the bus – The Dortmunder U

From Wikipedia: The Dortmund U-Tower is a brewery building in the city of Dortmund, Germany. It was the first skyscraper of Dortmund, built in 1926-1927. The high-rise Union Brewery used this building for the fermentation and storage of their products. In 1994 the brewery and all its surrounding buildings were closed and demolished, only the Dortmund U-Tower was spared due to having landmark status. In January 2008 the Dortmund U-Tower was decided to be redeveloped as a flagship project for the "Ruhr 2010 - Cultural Capital of Europe".

More on this blog with the tag U

And on my flickr

Participating in Our World Tuesday

Gravel road

Maltahöhe, gravel road for the next 100 kilometers

On the way to the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia



March 2010

If you like to watch a video from this trip

Linked to signs, signs

Zambia

In the north of Zambia, March 2010

What a fascinating country. Unbelievable nature and friendly people. And the north is very quiet.

In Lusaka we met Patrick (via couchsurfing.org). Watch a video about our visit here on You Tube. He lives outside the slum Chawarma and has a small traditionell restaurant (he cooks only on charcoal ) in the Tourismen Ministry Building in Lusaka. The video is mainly in english.

Linked to ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday: S is for ...

Hatta Dam, United Arab Emirates, December 2008

Hatta is about 115 km (71 mi) east of Dubai City close to Oman in the Hajar Mountains. Easy to reach by public bus and then about 2 km to walk to the dam. Our place for two nights.

We slept there in our tent. Wonderful. And we had some great walks around. On our video (at 4:20 minutes) (in German) you may watch a bit from this place.

And no, no water, no swimming.

This is my ABC Wednesday, S is for Swimming and for Sign, Sand and Stone.

Linked to Signs, Signs

Namib Desert #2 and a video

Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia, March 2010.

Yesterdays commentators gave me the idea to show you our
Video "In der Namib Wüste" (In the Namib Desert).
It starts slow, like our car does, but after one minute you will see some action, on our way to Sossusvlei. The running boy is Andreas.

When I now think of this, sitting here in Germany on my desk, it is ...

beyond words.

But I just try to tell you what comes in my mind.
When you are there you are there. Things tend to be normal, or kind of, because you are experiencing that. We are fully in the moment, here and now.
Later on, this is so far away. So different.
Imaging 42°C (107°F) in the mid of the day, very little shade, no air condition in the car.
These moments are so special, they give me so much energy.

On the way back. 200 kilometers on gravel to the main road. For the night we just pitch our small tent somewhere. One of us sleeps in the car. And the places are great and quite. And nice and cool.

My favorite films in 2009

Five Films I really enjoyed watching:
1. Man on Wire
2. Slumdog
3.Good by Lenin
4. Grizzly Man
5. Buena Vista Social Club

And I am in Quito and watch films from Germany. Guess witch are from there. It is easy to buy them here on DVD. Incredible how much video shops they have here.

Nomaden auf Zeit

Our travel blog is called "Nomaden auf Zeit". That is german and means nomads for a while, or something like that. With our two sons are we travelling around the world. Since August 2008.

And here you find it: http://nomadenaufzeit.de

Videos are on http://www.youtube.com/user/nomadenaufzeit

Some photos http://nomadenaufzeit.de/blog/?page_id=45

And our travel map http://nomadenaufzeit.de/blog/?page_id=2