Heidelberg, not Venice
Heidelberg offers new views, even after years. This one reminds of Venice, some kind of morbid charme.
Frank Schindelbeck
Körperwelten Heidelberg kamerascheu | Camera shy body worlds
Körperwelten shows the bodies of dead people, conserved by the process of plastination, which was invented by Gunther von Hagens, born Gunther Gerhard Liebchen. He also is the mastermind behind the company who …
Bergfriedhof Heidelberg | Heidelberg Cemetery
There are some sights in Heidelberg visitors will never miss: The castle and the old bridge, the famous big cask in the Heidelberg castle. Maybe they’ll walk the "Philosophenweg", a street opposite the …
Art in the Google Age
As a geographer, interested in imagery and Internet, I was always fascinated by Google Earth. The possibility to watch almost any place of the world in sometimes stunningly resolution satellite images is just …
Favourite Beers in and around Heidelberg
If you travel through Germany, you’ll soon find out that most restaurants and pubs are connected to one single brewery. This is typical because the pubs usually have an exclusive contract with the …
Salespeople, unhappy
Sometimes, when I am walking in the organic food shop in Heidelberg to buy some Tofu sausages, it strikes me, how grumpy the salesperson especially in these shops are. One would think, …