• 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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