Here, we reach that time of the year, when we somehow slow down from within. Winter didn’t arrive that early this year and we were still experiencing autumn like weather at a time it used to be snowing several years ago. Well, that doesn’t have to be a bad thing at all, we still had…
Here is an update on my trip to the capital of the European Union Brussels. An attempt to catch the early morning train despite the renovations that are currently taking place in Bonn central train station and a brief stop in Cologne central train station and as you can see, the beginning of the advent…
There has been a lot of discussions in academia recently about research studies that focused on the mental hygiene of PhD students and the amount of pressure they undergo that can easily develop into what is known as the PhD blues. I love what I am doing, I love my flies, I adore my…
The quarter Rive Gauche (literally: left bank) between the Seine River and the Avenue de France has undergone urban renewal since 1995. One of the objective was to create better connections between the city and the river by extending the main roads to the banks, as well as by building waterfront promenades and rehabilitate old…
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[aesop_parallax img=”https://blog.zef.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/comp_P1030585.jpg” parallaxbg=”fixed” captionposition=”bottom-left” lightbox=”off” floater=”on” floaterposition=”left” floaterdirection=”none” overlay_revealfx=”off”] About 20,000 people demonstrated in Bonn for the so-called Kohleausstieg (stepping away from using coal for energy generation) on 4th November 2017. Participants came from Germany and many other countries in order to request COP 23 delegates and politicians to end fossil fuel energy generation and…
The Iranian oasis town Yazd is known as the capital of wind catchers. Its surrounding province has around 500,000 inhabitants. The ancient city was built in around 3000 BC and has many historic clay buildings built in narrow streets and an amazing, century-old water system. In 2017, it was declared a UNESCO heritage site. UNESCO…
[aesop_quote type=”pull” background=”#282828″ text=”#FFFFFF” align=”left” size=”1″ quote=”The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”] The Tropentag is a development-oriented and interdisciplinary conference. It addresses issues of resource management, environment, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food, nutrition and related sciences in the context of rural development, sustainable resource use and…
[aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#008040″ text=”#ffffff” align=”left” size=”1″ quote=”“Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”~Mahatma Gandhi” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”] I would like to live my life to the fullest. I would like to be able to look back and say: been there, seen that and done this than…
[aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#282828″ text=”#ffffff” align=”left” size=”1″ quote=”The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. ~Eleanor Roosevelt” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”] Here is a retrospect to what happened after our Swahili doodles workshop just in case you…
