Our first week with Minnie Winnie for one part is all about getting to know her and her monstrous dimensions, and for the other the so called Olympic Peninsula, the

What a monster she is. Her name is “Minnie Winnie”. Our RV – short for recreational vehicle (which is an exaggeration to say the least when you have to steer

Today is a bit of a sad day, as we are leaving the wonderful Kowalski farm on Bainbridge today after nearly ten days restful island life. We will cherish this

When you live on Bainbridge Island and you haven’t made a living yet or found a way to otherwise earn your money here, you work in Seattle. That means that

During my year as exchange student in Michigan, Brendan was the captain of our swim team at J.W. Sexton High School. Under his guidance, we practiced seven times a week

It’s all about fish on our first day in Seattle. Be it at the Aquarium or at Pike Place Market, where young men throw fish around as if it was

This is what most people here ask us. The answer is simple: It’s a magical place. It really is. We got here two days ago, late at night, after a

Today, we discover a part of Brooklyn that is new to us, where the houses for obvious reasons are called “Brown Stones”. They remind us of houses in England or

It’s a sunny evening in Manhattan, and our friend Dino who works at the United Nations gives us a special tour of the UN headquarter. I admit that my expectations

I was in Atlanta when the planes hit the two towers. I had just been there for a couple of weeks, acclimatizing myself to the city and the LL.M. program

As I walk up Fifth Avenue at the end of my business meeting marathon, I see a store to my right that you all know and that I entered last

Thursday is business meeting day. There are a number of arbitration and mediation colleagues I have planned to meet while in New York. After all, this trip is also about

After having moved to TriBeCa, the four of us meet Marc Ackerman, general counsel at Tough Mudder, a company that has been organizing military style obstacle runs since 2009, and

Those who have been to the Metropolitan Museum in New York know that it is overwhelming. That you lose yourself in its magnitude. That – especially coming from Berlin where

Our first stop in New York City is the Upper West Side. We want to visit very dear French friends who live and work in the city for a while

Time to say good bye to Berlin for the summer. I “closed shop” last Thursday when my colleagues came into my office with farewell gifts, one being a compass to

The original idea was to do a trip around the world in the first half of 2018, because we expected our five-year-old twins to be schooled in only in the