Travel
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Japan (2019)
The question why we wanted to Japan doesn’t need to be asked here. As anime fans, such a trip is practically a must. Although we thought we already knew Japan well thanks to the media, the country had some surprises in store for us. What also made our trip to Japan special was the occasion: It was our honeymoon. Where better to spend our honeymoon than in Japan? Completely exhausted after a long wedding celebration, my parents took us to the Weimar train station on August 31, 2020, the day after our wedding, from where we went to Frankfurt Airport. Several hours later, finally sitting on the plane (a Boeing…
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Peru (2019)
Actually, we wanted to visit South Korea. How on earth did we end up in Peru? For years there was either no time or money to travel. Well, six months with a job and we suddenly had both: Sufficient money and three weeks’ vacation. My longtime best friend Jieun is Korean and flies to South Korea almost every spring. She has already suggested several times to come along. So why not put the suggestion into practice? In contrast to us, Jieun is still a student and as such, her exams thwarted the bill and Korea was cancelled. So there we were with 3 weeks of approved vacation and an unsatisfied…
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Poland (2018)
Why go to Poland? In the summer of 2018 we decided to travel to Poland – or rather Nathalie’s parents gave us a lift. The main reason for this trip was to visit Nathalie’s grandmothers, both on her mother’s side, who just celebrated her 80th birthday, and on her father’s side. In addition, the trip was great for me to do my own research about my family’s past. Although my grandfather with the surname “Lang” had always lived in Germany (and had no small family here either with 17 siblings), my grandmother originally came from Poland – from the town of Hindenburg. At least that was the name of this…
