• About HLG

    About HLG

    Passionate learner driven by vibrant curiosity.  Still trying to figure out how to cook cacio e pepe properly.  Endless pile of books that is still growing.  Ferdinand von Schirach and Rolf Dobelli ultra.  British at heart with passion for English always eager to improve.  Living in Switzerland currently. Born and raised in Germany. Listening to…

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  • About travelling

    About travelling

    Sunday morning end of July. Travel guides open trying to be motivated to plan what to do in Beijing and Shanghai. My glimpse of motivation fades away questioning what am I doing here at all. After writing some flash cards with Mandarin vocabulary yesterday in the evening I felt more like Sisyphos and less like…

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  • Be prepared – bookish version

    Diving into Singapore and China I started using a well-known strategy I am very much in favour of: reading books. Not sure really about where to start and after a bit of research I landed with the above shown pile. A mixture between between classic travel guides, memoirs (Lee Kuan Yew, Kissinger, Schmidt) and introduction…

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  • Late Night projects

    Late Night projects

    Planning holidays is not a strength of mine, and I am massively into outsourcing this whenever I can. After various organizational cramps and a failed plan for going to the US I had to figure out on my own what to do in 2025. There was this long standing wish to travel to Asia. I…

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