In Wolfsburg, there is the Zeithaus in the Autostadt - a small but very nice museum of automobile history. But there also is a car second museum that I haven’t been to since my childhood: The Automuseum. Friends had received a voucher for having moved to Wolfsburg. We decided to join them and to check out the museum.

In late summer, we finally visited Munich. Jessie had wanted to go for a long time - I think with a somewhat romanticized idea of the city in her head.

For our summer vacation, Jessie and I went on a cycling trip through the Netherlands. I had looked at various recommended routes and eventually we decided for a trip across Zeeland which is a province in the south-west of the Netherlands that consists of man-made islands.

This is the final post that completes the mini series of post about my trip to the Ruhr area. On my last day, I went to the Zeche Zollverein which is a former coal mine and coking plant.

My favorite part of this trip to the Ruhr area easily was the visit to the Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord. I had brought my bike and from Essen I took a ride on a bike highway, partially along the river Ruhr, to my destination to the north of Duisburg.

Still on my way to Essen, I also stopped at the Kokerei Hansa which is a former coking plant - now an industrial monument.

A week ago, I took two days off for a short trip to the Ruhr area to take pictures of the historic mining industry buildings there.

We didn’t get a lot of snow in Wolfsburg so far this winter. Therefore, I decided to go on a hike in the Harz. All the way up on the Brocken I surely should be able to find some snow.

This year, Jessie and I spent our Christmas break in Vienna.