Last weekend, Jessie and I visited Berlin for a couple of days. My goal was to try out some new restaurants and to spend time to take some pictures.

This is one of those times where pictures I’ve taken were sitting on my computer for way too long and were waiting to be published.

Earlier this year, we had spent a couple of days in Strasbourg because we heard it was a nice city and we also wanted to visit friends that live in Kehl - just across the Rhine from Strasbourg.

Impressions of Lisbon from a late afternoon photo walk during a business trip.

Jessie and I couldn’t stand the darkness and the cold anymore so we were looking for an early vacation somewhere a bit warmer this year. On YouTube, we came across Spain Revealed and watched so many videos of tapas bars that eventually it was clear that we had to go to Madrid.

Last weekend, we went on a short trip to Dresden. Jessie had already been there for a language course but it was the first time for me.

In order to use up some leftover vacation days from last year, I went to Berlin for a couple of days to explore parts of the city that I hadn’t seen yet.

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It has been a pretty boring winter and the last weeks, I didn’t go out much because whenever I had time, the weather was bad. Finally, this weekend, the stars aligned and I drove to the Harz for a short hike.

For this year’s vacation, Jessie and I went to Frankfurt for a couple of days. I had spent a lot of time there for work around 2012. Therefore, I was curious to come back and see what has changed. Also, I think Frankfurt is one of the most underrated cities in Germany.

This weekend, Jessie and took a relatively spontaneous trip. It was supposed to be to the North Sea but finding accommodation wasn’t that easy. In the end, we booked a Hotel in Bremerhaven which is more of an industrial small town - so neither an exciting big city nor a cute small town.