After a guided tour of the Wartburg, I carried on from Eisenach to Berlin. My hotel - Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin - was hard to reach, because of all the football fans at the Brandenburg Gate, celebrating the DFB Cup Final. I...

On my way to Berlin, I took a break today at Wartburg Castle near Eisenach. High up in the Wartburg one has a fantastic view over the city of Eisenach and the surrounding countryside. I am spending the night in a hotel on the...

On the last day of my latest trip to the Azores, a couple of sperm whales showed up again (the English version of Wikipedia uses the my website as a reference for sperm whales). The sperm whales were very shy, and it was not easy...

Yesterday evening I thought that meeting the giant fin whales would be the highlight of this trip to the Azores... This morning we found a pod of pilot whales who had congregated by Lajes (Pico Island - Azores) and were trying to...

The last two days on the water have been very eventful for me, as I had even better opportunities to photograph fin whales underwater. It has been a completely new experience for me as an underwater photographer to work with such...

After arriving on the Azores (Horta – Faial Island), I lost two days on the water right at the beginning because TAP Portugal needed two days to deliver my baggage, which it had lost. This is unacceptable if one is flying...

This afternoon, I flew to Portugal - Lisbon - and I am enjoying the sunset on the Castle of São Jorge - with a view of the Ponte 25 de Abril Bridge and the river Tejo. As ever when I have a short stay in Lisbon, I am staying at...

I have postponed my planned change from my old Dell laptop to a new Apple MacBook Pro until October 2007. Apple will only release its new operating system MacOS X 10.5, known as Leopard, at the end of 2007.

Apple wants to bring...

Not a day goes by without news of deals by investment banks, Hedge Funds and Private Equity companies in the financial press. Deals in the branch are becoming ever more complicated, and are getting more and more gigantic....

On the last morning before leaving Dubai I always get up early, so that I can photograph the Jumeirah Burj Al Arab at sunrise. The sun is behind the Jumeirah Beach Hotel at dawn, and the beach is almost empty at 7 o'clock....