a blog by markus nolf
there are many ancient customs to celebrate summer solstice or midsummer. here in tirol – especially around innsbruck – “sonnwendfeuer” (also: “bergfeuer”) is a tradition with pre-christian roots: fires are […]
situated right within murramang national park, pebbly beach is one of many stunningly beautiful beaches in new south wales’ south coast. just after tasting the most wonderful meat pies ever […]
if you’re using picasa to organize your photos, and upload them to your wordpress blog, facebook and/or google+, you’ve probably noticed that sometimes the picasa caption doesn’t show up on […]
every few years, math and i find a cute little bookshop that is literally bursting with books. our latest discovery was grub street bookshop in fitzroy, melbourne: right across the […]
wilsons promontory national park (australian: “the prom”) is located at the southernmost tip of continental australia. we arrived there in cool, rainy-windy weather which, we were told, was “pretty ordinary”. […]
this short-beaked echidna (tachyglossus aculeatus) crossed our way near 90-mile beach. it kept going back and forth across the road at the blindest bend in kilometres. while generally afraid of […]
