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27032019: #FINLAND IN WINTER

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Hyvää päivää! 🙂 Better late than never 😀 But here come my impressions of February’s Finland trip. I stayed at my dad’s house near by Tampere and was doing almost every winter sports you can imagine, haha. Finland is just the perfect escape if you want to calm down and be for yourself as the country is so “empty”. I love it! Though it’s not my preferred climate I really enjoy real winter for couple of days. What I don’t need is a German winter. But a Finnish winter can be so beautiful, I can’t tell 🙂 Besser spät als nie 😀 Aber heute gibt’s endlich mal den schon länger angekündigten Finnland-Blogpost. Gewohnt habe ich in der Nähe von Tampere bei meinem Dad. In der Woche habe ich es wirklich fast geschafft, so ziemlich jede Wintersportart wenigstens einmal gemacht zu haben, haha. Finnland ist das perfekte Land, um abzuschalten, weil es einfach “leer” ist. Mega! Obwohl es nicht meine Lieblingsklimazone ist, liebe ich es, für ein paar Tage echten Winter zu erleben. Was ich nicht …

03032019: #PITSIDIA®

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Kali spera! It’s a bit funny how I find myself always writing hello in the language depending on the country, which the post will be about. So as you might guess after inserting a Lisbon-post I’ll come back to Greece again. Mir ist gerade mal aufgefallen, dass ich die Begrüßung des Blogposts immer in der Sprache des jeweiligen Landes, um das es geht, schreibe. Also, wie ihr euch denken könnt, geht es heute mal wieder um Griechenland. 🙂 I have perviously been writing about Pitsidia on my blog (I guess even several times), which I love calling my second home. And still again each time I go there I want to share my latest impressions of the little village in the very South of the island Crete. Probably for me personally it is rather a feeling of home-coming when arriving there, but it’s also that very friendly and original atmosphere, also from an objective point of view. As if tourism still hasn’t arrived there, though it actually has the past years and Pitsidia turns out …

12022019: #TWO DAYS IN LISBON

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Hey ho everyone! Bom dia! 🙂 Time for some Portugal-vibes today! Last autumn I made a Portugal round trip starting in Lisbon. Portugal’s capital is such a beautiful city, I really didn’t know about. A city, which I really consider to live in in the future. Lisbon has everything: lovely architecture, the most beautiful tires, culture and spreads positive vibes.  Zeit für ein paar Portugal-Vibes! Letzten Herbst hat es mich ja mal wieder nach Portugal verschlagen, und dieses Mal ist es eine kleine Rundreise geworden, die in Lissabon begonnen hat. Portugal’s Hauptstadt ist einfach traumhaft, das war mir gar nicht so bewusst. Kommt auf jeden Fall auf meine Liste “Mögliche temporäre Wohnorte für die Zukunft”. In Lissabon gibt es nicht nur die schönsten Kacheln überhaupt, die Stadt bietet Kultur, Architektur und hat eine positive Ausstrahlung auf mich. 🙂  I stayed in the HUB New Hostel, which was near by Bairro Alto, so quite central. I can only recommend this Hostel, but I guess there are quite a few good ones in Lisbon. I’m a person who …

22012019: #MATALA – THE LAST HIPPIE VILLAGE

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Kali spera! 🙂 Hope you’re all getting through winter well! I’m really freezing a lot these days (-5°C and no snow atm) and still can’t wait to travel to Finland in February after not being there for 8 years. However, this is going to be another sun-loaded post about Crete! I previously wrote about my time in Agios Nikolaos, so today I’ll give you some impressions about Matala, a small village in the South of the island. Ich hoffe, ihr kommt alle gut durch den Winter! Ich bin wirklich am Frieren (aktuell hier -5°C, aber kein Schnee) und trotzdem freu ich mich riesig auf eine meiner nächsten anstehenden Reisen Ende Februar, welche nach Finnland geht (seit 8 Jahren endlich mal wieder). Heute gibt es allerdings erst mal wieder einen sonnengeladenen Post von Kreta. Letzte Woche habe ich ja über die Zeit in Agios Nikolaos geschrieben. Heute geht es (mal wieder) in den Süden der Insel, und ich möchte Euch gerne ein paar Eindrücke von Matala zeigen.  Matala is a cute little town (quite touristy for …

29042018: #FUERTEVENTURA – EL COTILLO

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¡Buenas tardes! 🙂 Time for some Spain vibes on a cloudy Sunday afternoon! Zeit für ein bisschen Spanien-Stimmung an einem Sonntag Nachmittag! Overall happy As we made it to our “tradition” do go on a last-minute trip to wherever over Easter, we mostly end up in Spain during this time of the year. This year it was Fuerteventura (just like last year :D). It was my third time on Fuerte and I have to say that it was my favorite trip there. The first time (I think 2010 or 2011) we’ve been to Costa Calma, a very tourisic center. It was a nice holiday in a great hotel but I prefer to be in a less “touri-place”. The second trip last year went to Jandia, in the very South of the Island. Beautiful Beaches around, a lot of cliffs and in the middle of nowhere – also nice, but not that amazing if you don’t have a car. This year we’ve been to El Cotillo, a very cute little village in the North-west of Fuerteventura. …

11062017: #CALMING DOWN IN ARENAL – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?

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¡ Buenos días ! “Alone on Mallorca? Seriously ? Why do you do that ?” Better question: why not ? A very different (and very spontaneous) trip. Wie, du fährst alleine nach Mallorca ? Und überhaupt, wie  kann man denn alleine in den Urlaub fliegen ? Gegenfrage: Warum eigentlich nicht ? Ein Spontantrip der anderen Art. Traveling alone is nothing new. But booking an All-Inclusive trip is different, but why not ?  Well, let’s start from the beginning. First of May. Hamburg. 10°C and rain. I’m opening the student server to see my schedule. My eyes got bigger when I saw that there is not going to be any class the whole week. Everyone who knows me, also knows how my brain works. The server was already closed and a new tab opened. Last-Minute-Flughafen.de. Destination ? Sun. Where ever. Budget. Low. 😀 Departure ? In two days. Search.  Alleine zu Reisen ist ja eigentlich nichts Neues. Okay, bei einem All-Inclusive-Trip ist das nochmal etwas anders, aber warum nicht ? Zurückgespult. Alles auf Anfang. Erster Mai. …

02052017: #EASTER SHORT TRIP TO FUERTEVENTURA

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Buenos días ! The greatest ideas are the spontaneous ones. Proving that again I booked this trip 72 hours before departing. Well, I also have to admit that I planned to make a trip over the easter holidays already three weeks ago. But to make the excitement bigger (and because of the high prices :D) I waited with the booking procedure ’til tuesday night. Departure was friday morning at 6 a.m.. My only requirements were sun and sea. Wherever. As the duration was limited to a maximum of four days, it had to be a country, which is not to far away. Quiz: Where in Europe the sun is strong enough in April ? On the canarian islands (at least it’s supposed to be and it was proved). As I already took the excitement in the headline (huge journalistic mistake, hahah), the chosen destination was Fuerte Ventura. Spontane Ideen sind grundsätzlich die Besten. Erneuter Beweis dafür ist meine letze Reise, die ich 72 h vor Abflug gebucht habe. Okay, über Ostern einen kleinen Trip einzulegen, …

08032017: #EXPLORING LANZAROTE

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Hey guys ! :> First of all I really need to apologize for the lack of posts during the last weeks. After the trip to Lanzarote I was super busy moving to Hamburg and searching for a room there (and yes, I was successful). 😛 Erstmal sorrrryyyyyyyy, dass ich so lange nichts geschrieben habe. Nach dem Spontantrip nach Lanzarote stand nur noch genau eine Sache auf dem Plan: Innerhalb von 4 Tagen eine Zimmer in Hamburg finden (und ja, ich war erfolgreich), hahah. Well, about the trip itself I have to mention that I booked it two days before departure. I was considering Fuerte Ventura, Tenerife and Lanzarote and at the end I decided to fly to Lanzarote, as the climate should be better over there. The island is famous for the black lava sand beaches and it’s landscape which was formed by the vulcans. Then there is Cesar Manrique, the architect who made the island to which it is now. He once said ‘no building should be higher than a palm tree’. That quote is essential for all …

12022017: #24H AMSTERDAM

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Goedendag ! :> Everyone who knows me well, also knows that I hate traveling by bus. This time we decided to make a journey to Amsterdam with flixbus as we wanted to go and come back within 24 hours. Well, from Dusseldorf its actually not that far. 2,5-3 hours and you arrive. And so we booked the bus at 7:10 a.m. from Dusseldorf and 6:00 pm back from Amsterdam. Alarm clock at 5:00 a.m. ‘It’s gonna be a long day’. A look on the phone and a delay SMS arrived: 1 h 40 min ! At the end it came out that the bus literally was delayed 3 hours ! Great start and a lot of upset calls with flixbus. We wanted to change the coming back bus to a later one but it wasn’t possible (I still don’t understand why they couldn’t change it). And so we decided to make it our way. No risk, no fun; we just enter the late bus and it’s gonna be ok. ______________________________________________________ Jeder, der mich gut kennt, …

24092016: #PITSIDIA SOUNDS LIKE HOME

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Hi everyone ! 🙂 Zu guter letzt sind wir nun endlich in Pitsidia angekommen, einem kleinen Dorf im Süden von Kreta in der Nähe von Matala. Seit meinem 3. Lebensjahr fahren wir ca. ein mal im Jahr immer wieder in dieses kleine Örtchen, das nie die Originalität verliert und den ursprünglichen Charme des kleinen griechischen Dorfes behält. Jeder kennt jeden und nichts ändert sich, zumindest fast nichts. Es scheint fast so, als wäre die Zeit dort stehen geblieben. Last but really not least, we arrived in Pitsidia, a small village in the south of Crete near Matala. We are coming back there almost every year since I was a little child, so it feels pretty much like a second home for me. Everybody knows each other and nothing changes, almost nothing. Sometimes it seems that the time is stopped over there. Pitsidia always stays original and never looses its charm. I’m wearing the model ‘Catia’ by Triangl I can’t get enough of the Greek architecture and colors One more time, hahahah       Der Komo-Strand …

22092016: #10 FACTS ABOUT THE SAMARIA GORGE

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Kali speraaaaaa ! Da ich fand, dass das nicht so Recht in den Post über Chania passte, hab ich mal einen extra Artikel über die Samaria Schlucht verfasst und die wichtigen Dinge, die man wissen sollte, zusammengestellt. Also, hier einmal ein paar Tipps & Fakten über die Samaria-Schlucht: As it didn’t really fit into the post about Chania, I decided to write an extra article about the Samaria gorge and compiled the most important things, that someone should know about. Consequently, here some facts & advices about the Samaria gorge:   1.) Es ist eine 18 km lange Wanderung, die auf den ersten Kilometern ausschließlich bergab geht (auf  Geröll -> daher festes Schuhwerk dringend zu empfehlen ;)). 1.) It’s an 18 km long hike, that on the first kilometers only directs downhill (scree ground -> that’s why I absolutely recommend sturdy shoes ;)). That’s how your shoes will look like, so maybe don’t use the new nikes like I did 😀   2.) Die Tour wird von vielen Reiseunternehmen angeboten, man kann sie doch jedoch …

17092016: #CRETE PART TWO

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Hallöchen :> Sooooo, weiter im Text 😉 Voll motiviert und randvoll mit Einkaufstüten aus Heraklion ging’s dann mit dem (kleinen) Hyundai in den Westen der Insel, nach Chania. Ein kleiner Zwischenstopp in Panormo durfte jedoch nicht fehlen. Das ist der Ort, an dem ich letztes Jahr für drei Monate als Fitness-Animateurin gearbeitet habe. Let’s move on 😉 In a super-lucky-holiday mood and with a little car packed up to, or better, over its limits we went on to the west of crete, Chania. For sure the stop in Panormo was not to miss to say hello to everyone. Panorama is the small village at the north coast of crete, where I worked as a Fitness-Entertainer last year. I’m wearing: Bershka dress H&M basic t-shirt TkMaxx shoes  (my absolute favourites & that’s how they look) Zara Bag Na-Kd jewelry Weil es so super geklappt hat, haben wir mal wieder einen Tag vorher ein Air B’n’B gebucht und es war direkt nochmal ein Griff ins Schwarze. Das Apartment war voll ausgestattet, super geräumig und hatte eine echt …

11092016: #CRETE PART ONE

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Kali spera, zurück aus aus dem Urlaub melde ich mich jetzt aus Düsseldorf mit ein paar Infos und Eindrücken von der Kreta Reise. Da ich seit 17 Jahren immer wieder in das selbe Dorf auf Kreta reise, ist es dort für mich wie eine Art ‘Ankommen’. Dieses Mal haben wir uns für eine Rundreise auf eigene Faust entschieden und waren nur die letzten Tage im ‘Heimatdorf’. Der Reiseplan sah so aus, dass wir erst 2 Tage in Kretas Hauptstadt Heraklion verweilen, dann weiter nach Chania reisen, von dort aus die Samaria-Schlucht Herausforderung annehmen und zu guter letzt in den Süden nach Pitsidia fahren. I just arrived back in Germany from my last trip to Crete , about which I want to tell you and give some impressions. Now I’m in Dusseldorf, where I will continue the university tomorrow. As I’m traveling to Crete since I am 3 years, for me it means ‘coming home’. This time we made a road trip through more parts of the island instead of traveling to the same small village …

07052016: #CRETE VIDEO

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Hey everybody ! Finally I uploaded the Crete 2015 Impressions video ! Last year I already published a photobomb about my time in Greece as a Fitness-Animator, as you can see here ! Have fun while watching ! 🙂 Ich hab’ endlich das lang ersehnte Kreta-Video hochgeladen. Die ganzen Fotos aus der Zeit als Fitness-Animateurin auf Kreta gab’s ja letztes Jahr hier schon zu sehen ! Viel Spaß beim Anschauen ! 🙂 Crete 2015 Impressions Kisses, Josi ;*

26012016: #LA BELLEZZA DI ROMA

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Buona sera a tutti ! It happens to everybody, being angry about something or annoyed by somebody or just in a bad mood. In this case I just remind myself about the fact that I’m living in one of the most beautiful cities in the world: ROME. Mostly sunny, blue sky and full of inspiring old buildings. Last Wednesday I went a little bit earlier to School and recorded my way to school in pictures. Of course I made an extra round along the Tevere, but in general it reports quite well my way to school. The only thing that you can’t see in the pictures is the frostiness, but despite of this the pictures literally reflect the reality in its colors. What else ? Ci vediamo, un bacio ;* Josi PS: What I love about Italy and hate about Germany as well is the sale situation. In Italy it’s quite similar to America. Special dates when the sale starts and with sale I mean SALE. Last Saturday I went to Porta Di Roma (a …