vacations - places and people

from december 24, 2008 to january 22, 2009 i had the pleasure to be back in the european winter after sixteen years. it was cold (negative temperatures almost every day), and it was incredible. 14 of these 29 days i was happy to be at my parent's, mostly in basel. i did do some travelling, mostly to see friends and family.

the most special places i went to were: being on the aguille du midi, at 3842 m, viewing the mont blanc (january 9); seeing lüneburg and adendorf (january 12); and being inside of the fritz-walter-stadion in kaiserslautern to see my beloved bayern (january 19, not to be forgotten!).

the most special people were, doubtless, my parents (highlights: a trip to the alps at grindelwald, near interlaken, in december 28; and the very pleasant visit to bodensee and marc's family on january 18), the days with inga in bremen (december 29 to january 1), seeing mareike and tobias in darmstadt (january 11) and dining with michi in stuttgart (january 14). bill showing me around (january 8: montreux, martigny, lausanne), a day with nana (january 21) and the always special visit at the tanten (january 13) were some more of many, many highlights. special mentions for being able to see and talk to frau strube, our neighbor in memeler weg days, at the end of the emotional day in lüneburg/adendorf, and for being able to talk to raphael sanz, whilst getting to know the beautiful nürnberg (january 15).

here is my trip. ch is switzerland, d is germany and f is france.

special places:
basel (ch), bremen (d), darmstadt (d), konstanz (d), lausanne (ch), lörrach (d), ludwigsburg (d), luzern (ch), neuchatel (ch), stuttgart (d)

very special places:
adendorf (d), chamonix-mont-blanc (f), colmar (f), geneva (ch), hamburg (d), jungfraujoch (d), kaiserslautern (d), lavey-les-bains (ch), lüneburg (d), martigny (ch), montreux (ch), nürnberg (d), stein am rhein (ch)

family:
pa & mãezinha, conny, gunther, sebastian & raphael witzig, tante maja & tante hannelore, cornelia, winnie & larissa küsel, benny & tati tscheuschner

special people:
bendigs (hevi, detlef & jared), derrick, elodie, grazi, manuel, miriam, newton, niclaas, raphaël, herr reincke, rickson & family, schlonz, tota & family, vera, wanderlei

very special people:
bill, inga, marc & alma with kids, mareike, michi, nana, raphael sanz, thomas & tobias

not to be forgotten:
andreas, bastian, breno, chistian, daniel, franck, hamit, landon, luca, lucio, mark, martin, michael, miroslav, phillip, zé roberto

for pics of the trip, just visit my multiply (flama4.multiply.com)!