Coit Tower in SF

The 63m Coit Tower on top of the Telegraph Hill in San Francisco offers a beautiful panoramic view on both the city and the bay. It was erected in 1933 as a monument dedicated to the San Francisco Firemen.
The only thing I was really worried about was the elevator one has to take to reach the top. While I was waiting for my ride back down, this technological monument made sounds and movements like it was on its last operation. After my question about the age of this means of transportation, the friendly asian liftman answered with her brightest smile: "Don't worry, it's only 67 years old!! I think it's still safe."
And so I was glad to finally reach safe ground again.

Steep Streets of San Francisco

Chicago 2016

In only five days, the decisive moment for Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics will be reached when on Friday October 2nd, the IOC is going to announce the host of the 28th summer games in modern olympic history at their congress in Copenhagen. Chicago is thereby competing against Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro.

Chicago was considered as favorite for a longer time but especially Rio is a strong competitor and eager to be the very first Olympic City from South America. Otherwise, giving the games to Madrid or Tokyo seems to be a little bit more unlikely since Peking and London are hosting the preceding games. But nevertheless, decisions in the conspirative circles of the International Olympic Comitee are always hard to predict and only on Friday we can be sure if the Obama Factor really helped to bring together "the Youth of the World" in Windy City in 2016.

San Francisco Vol. II

Yet another set of pictures from San Francisco. Since fall has already started here in the Midwest I really miss the nice weather at the West Coast.

San Francisco

... steep streets, calm neighbourhoods, Golden Gate Bridge, the inhospitable island of Alcatraz, homeless and other hippies, dense fog, world-famous cable cars, ...

All this and much more is San Francisco on the West Coast in California.

Its unique flair, the friendly and open minded population and its great diversity make it to one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

I liked it very much and it is definitely worth a trip for everybody.

Radio Silence

Being quite busy in the last months, regrettably there have been no new posts for a longer time.
But now I am back on air and try to give some updates more regularly in the next weeks.
Since bubbleshare is no longer available as of November 15, I will change the style of the picture slide shows and maybe also some details on the general appearence.

So stop by in the near future to hear some news about fall in the Midwest and my short trip to San Fancisco last week ...


So long



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