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My first longer vacation for over a year took me back to Fehmarn, a little island in the eastern sea that I had visited the last time when I was 8 or 9 years old. We had rented a flat in Puttgarden on the northern coast in "Op de Wei 2" which was called "Große Strandperle". This turned out to be a very cosy and nice flat which had exactly the right flair for summer vacation. Obviously the in 1900 built house had been restored with great effort and furnished and decorated with love and Ikea. From our flat one could easily reach the northern beach by a short walk. Puttgarden beach is not really...


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Due to Alkaline Trio concert visits I was London bound twice in the last 12 months. The original concert date would have been November, but as Matt Skiba broke his ankle I pretty much had 3 days in London and booked another flight for the rescheduled date on 10th May. In November we stayed in Fielding Hotel in Covent Garden. Fielding is a small hotel that offers no breakfast and I guess is mostly booked by business people. The rooms in Fielding are huge compared to everything else I so far experienced in London and they were clean and comfortable. Staff was overall nice and I can really recommend...


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and finally a wallpaper from the trip into the Highlands...looks like Tolkien's Misty Mountains for me.


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due to the fact that I'm on holidays I finally had the time to add the Ireland 2005 pictures to the gallery. The travel reports will follow tomorrow or during the weekend. All pictures during that trip have been shot with a little Canon Digital Camera I bought a week before the trip and which turned out to make pretty good pictures. The trip took place in May 2005 directly after I graduated university and mainly covered the south-western area of Ireland. I'd like to point out that the pictures 23 & 24 have been taken from the same spot in Killarney National Park, a point that's called...


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Edinburgh has been added to the gallery & the travel report is finished as well. I might add some historic details about Dublin Castle during the next days...


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For Sunday we had decided to do the Highland tour. Meant for us that we really had to get up very , very early. We needed to leave the guest house at 7.30 am and so it was clear there would be no breakfast served at that time. Luckily the couple taking  care of the house was so nice to prepare us a take away breakfast so that we had something to eat at last. Shops in Edinburgh seem to be open on Sundays as well, but coffee shops don't open before 8.30 am as we finally realised. Our tour guide turned out to be a guy in a kilt named Andy and we started in Edinburgh at a 08.15 am. First stop was Doune...


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Second day and we got up at half past eight. I tried out the shower and that was really refreshing. The only negative point was that the heating in the bathroom didn't seem to work and I'm sure in winter this would be really cold. We got down for breakfast which is served from 8.00 on during week and from 8.30 on weekends. Breakfast was delicious. We could first choose between Yoghurt, Muesli, Cereals, Cheese, Jam & Toast and had then to quote which second course we wanted. The options were "Southside Grill" (egg, potato cake, sausage, tomato, mushrooms & bacon), "Southside Vegetarian"...


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We started early today. We had to get up at 7.00 a.m. and had breakfast with my parents as my Dad was so nice to drive us to the airport afterwards. We‘d booked our flight with Ryan Air and I should mention some points regarding that airline. Ryan Air is cheap if you only travel with hand luggage. We had booked a onboard luggage as well (additional 30 Euros) for 15 kg and I can say that every kg more will cost additional money. They are really strict as this is probably the way they make their money. On our flight to Edinburgh there was some bowling group on board which made sleeping during...


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Tomorrow I'll fly over to Edinburgh which, as far as I've been told, is an overall beautiful city..so I'm pretty stoked about getting there. We'll be staying at Southside Guest House which looks very promising on it's homepage and seems not to be so far away from the attractions.  I haven't packed anything so far and I still need to pick up the lens I want to take with me.  This will be the Sigma 24.0 - 70.0 mm I already tried out two weeks ago and additionally I'll take my wide angle, a Sigma 10 - 20 mm with me so I should be covered for the trip. So far the weather reports says we'll...


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