Airport series: London

Getting ready for the flight overseas...

Lanzarote

Back from the island of Lanzarote, where I rested my mind, my body and my soul :-)

Weather was almost always nice and sunny, with a couple of cloudy breaks. I liked it both ways, one day perfect to think about the meaning of life while studying the behavior of the clouds over the Atlantic ocean... 

..the next day sipping Cortado while studying the behavior of the beach folks....and of course jumping into the waves myself later..

Volcanic rocks, the blue sky...

...and the sea, fine vivid colors.

Another one of the public beaches, luckily not too crowded during the off-season...

Church in the village of Uga. The interior villages of Lanzarote looked Mexican to me: white houses surrounded by a yellowish desert...

Pretty nice sunset colors...

...time for a cold drink :-)

Famous Papagayo-beaches on the north-west end of Lanzarote.

Boat-trip to Corallejo, on the island of Fuerteventura. To me the picture looks pretty Carribean.

Airport series: Arrecife

Well, just another airport. Only the picture behind the windows is different from others...

Airport Series: Munich

Instead of a description of the perfectly generic airport of Munich a quote of the great Douglas Adams about airports in general:

"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs."

Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

Pair of brown shoes - which are longing for being back in their shoe rack in a cozy home in Berlin :-)

Munich, on a frozen night

I meant to take lots of pictures of the fine old city of Munich, capital of Bavaria, but I only managed to take just one. Minus 20 Celsius and a freezing wind made sightseeing a torture, the light was surprisingly low, too,...maybe next time during daylight hours in summer..