Our day started super early as we had to be at the autists’ school at 8 am. Standing in front of the door, we wondered if this would proof our idea of Mexican reliability to be true or false. Would they arrive an hour late and without having bought our material? Exactly the opposite was the case. The door opened and we were professionally welcomed by the manager, every single item of our material list was there and we could start without any delays. At half past 9, the outlines of our mural painting were done and we had time for a coffee before our driver Toño came to pick…

Our day today started with some grocery shopping and a very fast breakfast before we went to a meeting with Esmeralda’s dad on the other end of the city. Together with him, we visited a school for autistic children, in which we will paint a gigantic wall these next days. We met the boss of the school, checked out the space and sat down in a cafe making a plan for the wall (ideas and necessary money) and also for our time here in Mexico. Traveling with 7 people is more than complicated regarding organization. Everything you do or plan to do takes twice as long as normal and is…

I cannot think anymore, I won’t even proofread this text but will try to give you some information about this first, incredibly intense day in Mexico. We left the house at 9 in the morning and went to the city center to visit the market. Esmeralda’s brother accompanied us and his wife joined us a little later. The market was exactly what one imagines when thinking about a Mexican market. Everything was sound, everything was smell, everything was colour. Infinite amounts of fruits and vegetables  of all types on a gigantic space. Then raw meat. Then all spices and weird plants to cure every different type of desease through different…

We slept pretty well in our bed for 6 with only two other guys and woke up at 7:30. It started raining outside during breakfast and we descended in light rain on an easy trekk to Kandersteg along the river and what is the skiing descent in winter. During the short hike, we could almost continuously hear the really loud stone avalanches falling down the neighboring mountain walls. The sound was impressive and somewhere between a jet aircraft, fireworks and thunder.   Down in Kandersteg, we waited for our train and caught a train, a bus and a cable car back to our car, where we arrived at 13:30. After…

Sleep doesn’t seem to be one of the things that work very well on this trip but in exchange, the weather was awesome again. Blue sky, no fog, no clouds and an incredible view of the surrounding mountains from this perfectly exposed 2880 m viewpoint. As today’s trip was very short again, we walked to the glacier again after breakfast and I started climbing the “Wild Lady”, the mountain peak behind the hut. I only followed the white-and-blue alpin track until it got to the bottom of the first steeper elevation, where there were memorial plates of 5 mountaineers that had been killed in accidents on this peak. Although I…

If breakfast wouldn’t have been at 6:30, we would have probably stayed in bed longer, as outside was only thick fog again. We set off at half past 8 anyway and made our way down towards the glacier. Through somewhat challenging terrain, we walked along the moraine, seeing the glacier and the river of melting ice just in front of us. We crossed that river over a simple wooden bridge and continued through a grey valley of boulders and rocks and snow patches and glaciers that looked like walking on the moon.This black and white film continued for another hour until an enormous canyon with a melting water river about…

We woke up at seven, after sleeping little and not very well. Sun streamed into the windows and the sky was blue and clear. Before breakfast, we could see all the surrounding mountains without any fog. We sat down for breakfast and between one bite and another, the panorama outside changed completely. Fog had rose up from the valley in an impressive speed and we went back to not being able to see anything. There wasn’t even enough time to take photo. At around 8:20 we left the hut and started hiking upwards towards the Sefinenfurgge. After a few hundred altitude meters, we started to feel that we were passing…

This morning, we started at half past 5 and drove through parts of Germany and France to Interlaken in Switzerland. Our tour would start in Mürren, where I spent most of the skiing holidays of my childhood. The weather and views in the valley were still pretty nice although cloudy but when we took the two cable cars up to Mürren at 1600m, they dropped us off right in the middle of those clouds. Sure the view would have been really nice from up there but we could only see white. For the first 60 minutes, we climbed steep 400 meters until the path turned into a softer upward hilly…

Since the Americans left and life went quiet around here, I’ve been quite lazy with writing my blog (and also with everything else, which made blogging useless anyway). But now that I am just about to start my next adventures, I think it’s time to give you an update of what I’ve been up to in this last month of blog-silence. Two months of non-stop travelling, then coming home to my family and friends and a beautiful German summer, combined with outrageously expensive plane tickets to Norway, lead to my decision to cancel my original plan of travelling through Scandinavia and Eastern Europe during June and July. Being at home,…