Category: Travel

Marseille again

31.03.24 01.04.24Travel, Urban Sketching Marseille

I’m starting to come here almost as often as I do to Venice. It’s a bit easier now because AUA, when it flies, does so twice a week direct from…

Divine Sounds in Toulouse

30.06.23 06.07.23Travel

When I first went to Marseille for the opera in 2019, I only had a vague idea of the city. This year, opera brought me to Toulouse for the first…

Advent in Paris and with Mickey Mouse

22.12.22 22.12.22Travel Advent season, France, Paris

Actually, I only do small trips during Advent because I always volunteer at the Vienna Nativity Show during this time. Since it had to be cancelled for the last two…

And Marseille surprises again

14.10.22 01.04.24Travel, Urban Sketching France, Marseille

Marseille certainly won’t win any beauty contest. It impresses more with its richness of facets. The city changes its face every few steps. Just as you are strolling along a…

Torcello without my camera

28.09.22 28.09.22Tools and Materials, Travel, Urban Sketching Ink, Torcello

The decision was not easy for me. A self-bound sketchbook made of Moleskine paper in A5 size, watercolour pencils, paint box, brushes, fineliner and fountain pen but no camera would…

Torcello greets me every year

28.09.22 28.09.22Travel Torcello, Venice

Autumn is here. How can you tell? Because I go to Venice and Torcello. I do that every year now, but this year everything was quite different. It started with…

A Sea of Lights in Hamburg’s Advent

09.12.21 12.12.21Travel Advent season, Germany, Hamburg, Travel

In England, everything is permitted that is not expressly prohibited. In Germany, everything is forbidden that is not expressly permitted. And in Austria everything is allowed that is forbidden, because…

Who will certainly not get on my nerves next year on Torcello

11.11.21 13.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching Italy, Torcello, Travel, Travelsketch, Urban sketching, Venice

Autumn changes things on Torcello. There are fewer visitors, which may have something to do with the change in the timetable of the vaporetti. The last few years there was…

Venice In Autumn

11.11.21 14.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching Italy, Travel, Travelsketch, Urban sketching, Venice

With Venice in autumn during the week before Halloween, I expected damp days, dull light and mystical wisps of mist creeping slowly from the sea over the canals and through…

Venice in the Time of Corona

10.11.21 14.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching Italy, Travel, Travelsketch, Urban sketching, Venice

I didn’t dare tell you in 2020, let alone write it, but I was in Venice that year too. No one could remember when there had ever been so few…

Many Surprises In Marseille

11.05.20 01.04.24Travel, Urban Sketching France, Marseille, Opera

My knowledge about Marseille was limited to the reading of Duma’s The Count of Monte Cristo. Therefore, one surprise after the other awaited me there during my short trip at…

North Sea – Looking For The Beach

30.04.20 30.04.20Travel, Urban Sketching Germany, Lighthouse, Luebeck, Nordstrand, North Frisia, Travemuende

My last beach holiday was decades ago and I have never longed to repeat it since. So when I was asked if I wanted to spend two weeks at the…

Hamburg – The Pearl Of The North

26.04.20 27.04.20Travel Germany, Hamburg

The people of Hamburg have every reason to be proud of their city. Hamburg is beautiful, original, surprising, fun and no matter where you go, you end up at the…

Visiting the Haban Yard

09.07.19 09.07.19Travel, Urban Sketching Habans, Museum, Slovakia

Have you ever been to Veľké Leváre? No! I have been there very often – driving through. It is a small town in the western part of Slovakia with a…

Palladian Odyssey Umbria – 2019 (Tour 1)

17.06.19 17.06.19Travel, Urban Sketching Assisi, Italy, Montone, Travelsketch, Umbria

In 2018, we talked about a sequel of the Palladian Odyssey, but I thought this would not happen during the next two years. Therefor the offer for a tour in…

Torcello – The Calm Before Interesting Times

04.06.19 18.05.22Travel, Urban Sketching Burano, Mazzorbo, Torcello, Venice, Vine

Nearly a whole year I was looking forward to go back to Torcello. To be up front about it the island is dreamlike even in wind and rain probably because…

Florence With a View And An (Indecent) Offer

03.06.19 28.12.19Travel, Urban Sketching Florence, Fountain Pen, Italy, Renaissance

For a city like Florence, this will be a short post. In 2012, I visited the town for a rather extensive sightseeing trip. This year I have only stayed for…

Short Visit In London

21.05.19 21.05.19Travel, Urban Sketching Christopher Marlowe, Deptford, England, London, theatre

Not that I need a reason to go to London (For me it is that kind of town one can visit again and again.), but this year there was a…

Advent In Verona

27.12.18 08.04.19Nativity Scene, Travel Advent season, Italy, Nativity Scene, Verona

Opera lovers will know the annual summer festival in the arena of Verona and may have been there at least once. It is not unusual to visit this northern Italian…

Trieste

07.09.18 10.08.20Travel Italy, Trieste, Video

I take the strain of travelling because I love to be somewhere else. Going as Viennese to Trieste gives you sometimes the impression you haven’t left home at all. Between…

Getaway In Baden Near Vienna

19.08.18 04.06.19Travel, Urban Sketching Beethoven, Casino, Hot Spring, Museum

As the name suggests Baden near Vienna is a little town not far away from Austria’s capital. Against expectation it is an ideal place for a getaway. Baden is famous…

Torcello – Sacred Tranquillity

04.06.18 13.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching Italy, Torcello, Travelsketch, Veneto, Venice, Video

Between the 9th and the 13th century the most important centre in the north Adriatic lagoon was on Torcello. It was a see with prosperous trading houses and craftsman’s business…

Is Visiting Venice A Good Idea? – Update

03.06.18 28.12.19Travel Impacts of tourism, Italy, Renaissance, Venice

In 1995 I visited a performance in the La Fenice opera house. I didn’t come back to Venice until 2017. Can a place famous for looking as in olden days…

Palladian Odyssey 2018 – Tour 1

02.06.18 10.09.18Travel, Urban Sketching Asolo, Italy, Palladio, Veneto, Vicenza

Apart from travelling to the penguins I fulfilled myself another dream this year: a sketching tour. Initially I wanted to go to Venice. I found a German travel operator for…

Milan

01.06.18 03.09.18Travel, Urban Sketching Italy, Milan, Urban sketching

On my way to the Palladian Odyssey 2018 I made a stop in Milan. I have never been to Milan or Padua before, therefor I didn’t know in the beginning…

Antarctica – Crossing The Polar Circle

02.03.18 03.09.18Travel Antarctica, Iceberg, Penguin, Polarcircle

Over 10 years I wanted to go to Antarctica. This February I actually did it. I gained a lot of impressions and experiences and I lost a dream. Since my…

Do Not Change Plane At Frankfurt Airport

01.03.18 29.06.18Travel Airport, Frankfurt

I have never been to Frankfurt am Main. No, that is not true. I was very often in Frankfurt am Main but always on the airport never in the town.…

Travel Preparation

07.01.18 14.08.18Travel, Urban Sketching Antarctica, Penguin

I was practising over the weekend for my next travel. Now you can make an educated guess where I will go 🙂

Sketching – How it began

04.06.17 11.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching Urban sketching, Venice

Like so many other people I am the victim of a strange teaching method in a strange school system. After primary school I had two drawing lessons once a week.…