You do it!

You've for sure heard that things are more simple when you do this or that when it is about the -Do it yourself- thing. 

Industry has our money, now they want our time. So they created those new concept of- let the people do the work and call it  "Lifestyle". 

Ikea does it with big success. Many others too, like when you look for things to build something at home or plant in the garden. 

The spots on TV tell you it is easier and you will also keep money. 

Well the truth is, nothings is easier and you'll lose more money then you are aware of. 

Your flight is cheap, but then the hidden cost makes the fly expensive as before but then nowadays you do the most work too. You book by yourself, you check in by yourself, you print out the tickets at your home and even in hotels more and more check in by themselves. The companies tell us that all this also is going faster. But that's a lie. Just look closer how much time you spent home, waiting to leave your baggage or you even pay for not waiting to come into the plane. You have the work and the hotel, the companies will thank you for that as you spare them millions of Dollars. Yes, you even pay for the work you do. 

At the Baumarkt the handyman has to buy all the stuff to build up is house, his garage and a lot more, even the building instructions. The spots showed you how easy it is, as even kids can do it in the spot. Usually the work itself is all but easy and you maybe need also a doctor or minimum some aid as you are not a professional. There are differences between a professional and you. That's why there is division of labor. 

But we seem to not care and prefer listen to the spots we see or read in newspapers and so on. Actually this -Do it yourself- thing is not new and surprisingly still functional. 

They just got other names and other pictures and is labeled as -Lifestyle- and a -must have- thing. 

We are living in a time where everything should be updated and upgraded. All has to be on max and speeded up and be under control. As it makes your life more easy. 

Does it? Does your new watch really help you? Does it help to know how much you have to train, how your pulse is and bloodsucker? Or is this a machine controlling you? Are you the one who decide what to do in your life or is it already the industry? Many products have been made "just" for you and we give out all our data. They know next to all of us and can make us believe we want this and that. 

Why would we buy so many clothes and food which is not good for us or the nature? Why would we be blind on both eyes if not because we have been fooled. 

How then can we know, we live the way we want and are not being used to spare money, like when we celebrate a day of - let's all clean together our streets for one day- it's something good for you and for the others too, but the truth is we do work which cost a lot of money for free. We even believe we do it because of us, not because we have been told so- but sadly we have. 

How far we have come can we see as one time Nestlé had a Miao- O-Maten, an automat which gives out pet food for free, if you make a sound like a cat into the microphone. This microphone was not to reach standing up, no, you had to kneel or bow. 

Did the machine like the sound, then you got a free sample of the food. And people did. Just for a fucking sample they have been standing, sitting in dirt. That is sadomasochistic. 

But we are far into this. We buy all the products to get all the Lifestyle. We pay for each machine to be able to buy with our mobile, to sign contract with e-legitimations. Yes our mobiles are now able to check in, to show our ways and even get the blood pressure. We can do much more and we gladly buy all that we need for this and for the time and services. We are apes.

Sharing is caring is the next level. Killing jobs as we like to have things cheaper and forget what it is for, unpaid work. We share also our problems with the computers, as they come out not 100% ready and we are happy to help each other. And our computers are telling us it is our fault when something went wrong. 

So are we still free as we believe?

But even sharing has changed it's face. It means no longer I give something and enjoy my help or your joy, no it means when I give, you have to give back same or similar. It is now all about money or what things are worth. Question is, how much worth is your life in this race?

Now we have a lot of those self service. It sounds so good and just for us, for a modern human, for our short, but precious time.  

And the self service makes people happy, gives them a feeling of being strong and they get a positive feeling. Actually most don't like the self service, but that is the paradox. The perception of time is to keep in mind. Waiting for the waiter seems longer then get your meal by yourself and standing in the queue.

Another thing is the tailoring- the feeling that something is made just for you, something is special. You can e.g. choose the colour for your sport shoes and more at Nike per internet. This is work and time but people take it as an advantage. 

Actually people would prefer the machines then to wait. Why? We have the feeling of having things better under control. But is that the case? 

Do we have things under control if a machine we have installed next to our plants tells us via app what to do? Like- give me water, give me more light, give me fertilizer, need less light, it's to hot...?

Should this augured of our life not better be not in use! Things went the natural way before, why not now? 

And the idea of a smart home. Is it really that smart to have such a home? Not to mention the costs.

Critics of such are often bashed down with the words that all is free and nobody has to do it and all is for more freedom. Is it? Are we that free to do as we want in this upgrading world? Can we stay spontaneous? Is it not already that our every day life is planed by the world around us? The products we buy are more and more special and set us more and more in dependence and slavery. 

I believe it is time we talk about this before we do the next step in upgrading. 

Let's look closer what really is helpful and what is a hidden way to control us and make us the way the industry and politic wants us to have. Before we become machines without being aware of that, I believe we should wake up. 

Love & light

What now my love?

In the last weeks my country shakes. 

Refugees are coming and the nazis are on the rise again. 

Fire is burning and people are clapping hands with smile in their face. 

People who just arrived after a very long and painful journey get welcome like shit and not even the police is doing something again it. Even worse the police claim it's the refugees foult. 

But to be true. Europe is shaking. The fascist minds are on the rise everywhere. 

We stand on the age of a big change in life and history and what do people do and politic? They refuse to see, to act to take in. Thought all should know better that all this happening now is a result of the last years politic and habbits of the western world. It is even the result of not telling the whole truth after world war- the second. 

The warnings have been in the 90'tis and in the beginning of the year 2000. But why listen as it all seemed so far away and our life did not change to the bad. 

Now we are in a crisis. Thought they call it a refugee crisis, it is not. It's a crisis of politic and our point of view. Our expectations and the world we made up. This world is crashing down and of course as we never really cope with the possibility that this could happen, we stand with no real idea how to deal with this challange. And it is a challenge we all have to get through, no matter if we want it or not. 

But far to many still refuse to see the facts and the logic that just 2- 3 mill. people are changing their place. Europe has over 500mill people and declare itself out of order. What a mess! What have we done or better not done all the years that we say so?

Frightening it is but our focus should be on what is possible, what we want and what future we are going to create. It is actually a big chance now. 

Sadly the politic still likes the old way, the way of fear. Even massmedia is most focused on fear.

But back from big politic to the politic in your own country. What can we do? Stand up and go on the streets. Yes. Talk about it and use facts. Yes. Make the massmedia do focus on the lies and use facts and also to help people open their minds that extrem parties are not the choice of the hour. Instead we should choose to follow the heart. 

Sounds as you heard it once and it sounds like an idiot is telling you while being blind and will tell you only love, love, love is the answer, but you have the feeling that this never function..? 

Oh it is that simple with love but so hard to live up to. So what more can we do? 

Some help the refugees who are arriving from the sea. Some help them on the way to Europe. Some help them when they are here, waiting for a future to start for real. Some spend clothes and money and some give out food and work as a connecting part in communication between the new world and those who entered it. 

But others fear that Islam will destroy Europe. Some say the African will treat our women badly. They say Köln showed it but the truth is of all those who have been found from the police, of all the many, many mans, just 3 have been from outside Germany. Some claim they are among us and prepare for another attac and so they say that most of the refugees are criminal, thought the highest rates of criminals is among the far right wing and their sympathisants. 

Yes, it is time to talk crystal clear and not deny the problems and mistake we have and made. Yes, criminals are always to find. And yes they will come more refugees as we do not do anything to stop the wars in other countries and I mean also the war of money. 

But those who can read- know that. Like me. Question is, how to reach those who don't, who fall victime for the fascist mind? How do you reach someone who has fear without having a real reason? How do we wake them up if they don't believe in masspress (which I can understand..)? How can we lead them to open thier minds for facts and reasons and what they can do? How can we make them believe in politic, when they don't trust them but the far right? Even thought they are telling lies more then all the others. 

I have the feeling that blocking the demonstration of fascist is not enough. Making jokes about them is not enough and on the other hand, most will not understand those. 

I am sure there is not one way to deal with this situation and I have a hunch that we all must do a bit more then we are doing now. If we don't want history to repeat, it is up to us, the common people. Not waiting for the politic to see, we must tell them and already this crisis is managed most by those who do it for free. On one hand this is very hopeful, on the other it makes me having bad feelings as those who are the reason for the crisis can still say they do enough, they don't need to, they have time. 

But how to tell them and all those silent people that time is up. There is no time anymore! What we do now and decide now is our future. How do you want your future? Backwards or forward? 

To vote is still important but also to tell them damn politics that they have to work for the people again and stop working for the lobby. 

How clear must the situation be that those people see? And how crystal clear must it be that all those silent people stand up? 

I'm not saying no one does. Grateful we can be that there are in fact people waking up and going on the streets and shout out- Stop. It's time for worldpeace, love and respect. It's time to fulfill the change which our grandfathers and mothers started. It's time for true equality and a new way of living together. But it is also time to stand up in your family. Discussion are needed and feeding each other with facts. Searching for ways to be with each other without fear and hate. 

But it is still not enough! We need more. Make the brainstorming with friends and find ways to call out for the right direction. Think outside the box again to find what we can do to get this crisis in a good and happy future. We need to. Old ways are out of question now. Find new ways. Find new hope and find yourself. 

Tell others what you found out and what your ideas are, because many have the same feeling. 

THERE MUST BE MORE. THERE MUST BE SOMETHING STRONGER. 

These days, I am thinking about that. Trying to figure out something better, stronger. Outside the box. Let's help each other in this. 

LOVE & LIGHT

Let's have a positive start!

Happy New Year and welcome to 2016. Another year and another chances to make the world a better place. 

Yes, in the end of last year we had quite sad thoughts about what was happening but also some nice one. Not all was and is bad and hope is still around. 

But maybe you need some more to feel more comfortable as you maybe know five positive words are needed to clear off one negative. 

So let's take in the good things in life and see what I have found...

More people then ever have access to drinking water. 1990 it has been 77% now in 2015 there are 91% all around the world.

More people then ever live longer then ever. 1990 the expected lifspan was 65,3 years and now in 2015 we arrived to 71 years. That can't be bad. That means we did some things right.

Fewer starving people then before as we know. Just take a look at 1990: 1010,7 million people did starve. Then in 2004 it was already 961 million people and the number went down again and so we had in 2015 around 795 million people. Sure still far to many, but significantly less.

And another positive thing we achieved: Less children die. The infant mortality has fallen from 12,7 million in 1990 to less then the half in 2015 with 5,9 million. Thought it's still a tragic number and could make you shiver. All those little souls but then, less have to die. More stay alive and get a second and third and fourth summer and so on. Let's hope this continues.

And the fifth thing I will give you is that you could see the internet rise and in the last years also in good ways as people started to connect and get aware that you have a place to share positive thoughts, to remind each other in the good in us, that you can share positive words and pictures and that we can help each other and give trust and faith, that we can understand things and ask, and last but not least that we should use this medium to make this world a better place. Just IMAGINE.... 

Five positive things... well it's a start, isn't it? Let's be grateful for that.

LOVE & LIGHT for 2016

Living a positive life

No, this is not a blog about how to stay positive, think positive, lead positive or act positive or even talk positive instead of using negotiations. 

It's about the HI Virus. Something we still deal with. No, it's not the worst disease and also not the most dangerous one. I already wrote a several times about that. Still we see a rising in numbers of infections after all the years. Still no way to avoid it with a vaccination. But the med has become much better and people live nearly normal. Nearly as most hide the fact that they are one of those who are taking the pills or at least are under the eye of a doctor. Thought still it did not went through to many people that those are the safest contact you may have as they are controlled and most of them are very looking to not bring anyone in danger. Thought those who take the pills mostly nowadays have undetectable virus status. Means there is no safer way as this one. But yes using condoms still is something you should do with sex with strangers as to protect yourself from other diseases who are actually more easy to get and if they are not discovered after, they can cost much more damage then you believe. They can also lead to dead. But in a relationship with clear borders and truthful talking it is most safe to have sex without condoms with a positive human. 

But the backlash those peoples get nowadays from media and others is a sign, that we deal with a lot more then just a disease. It's the image of sin, of hate and weakness, of -Only the others can get it but me!- believing. It's the try to point a finger to others and call them shameful names and make them victims and outsiders no matter what. 

It's the ignorance that each can get it, that you don't see it in peoples face if they have it or not and after all it is still the sign that we do not talk when needed about it. It is because we have hard to talk to each other about sex and all the things around when it is earnest, when it is private and mostly when you are in passion. We fear the stigma, we fear being pushed away. We fear to be called names we are afraid of. We are also often afraid of being true to our self and that is because most of us do not have safe sex each time. 

Talking about HIV and AIDS in public is talking about sex, thought this disease has more then one way to come to you and sex is just one of those many possible ways, but there are no stupid mistakes. 

Most afraid are those who should know better. Nurses. Far to many still fear to much and know to less and try to ignore the theme. Far to many would not like to work with someone who is infected as they are afraid of getting it. Stupid. No logic. Yes, but it has to do with fear, wrong pictures and preconceptions who are hard to destroy and it is also the sex thing. 

It would be much easier when we take it like cancer. But no, we still make a big fuss about it. More then it should. But industry and politic makes it even harder to get away with stereotypes. They want them alive for the sake of money and pride. 

In the last year many publishing organization and helping organizations have changed the way they talk to people as they have understood that reaching them is not to get with one advert. Even less with the same for each and everyone. We have to go to the streets, to school, to conferences, to radio and clubs to reach each, as they are different, in their own way.

But it is still hard to get people who are infected to talk openly. They still need a strong back and background. They still need self confidence and must have had already some kind of career as being open pushes you in new directions and can cost you your job. 

So I'll understand that nurses don't tell but know they should but can't. But times are on the side of being open as the medicine makes it clear that you are no danger as a nurse for no one. Your treatment will protect them and you. 

Nearly 35 years now since the first contact. 
First there was the wonder what is it. Then they fought the stigma it's the gay cancer. Then they fought the time as many died so fast and medicine became a question of dead and life and money. Laws made life harder and new investigation showed other ways to get infected. Then it was to stay alive as long as you can. Then, when living longer, maybe much longer made us wonder what to do with your time. Now we have time and a chance of a longer survive, we wonder how to make people less afraid and take the situation serious as numbers of infection rises again, but we also wonder how much is politic, how many lies are still on our way and what can we do? When will it get to normal, when to something some get some not. 

When will people be able to work no matter what? 

Nearly 35 years and still fighting. Still we die. But don't we all. 

Still we fear sex and the talking about it.

Still we deny the truth that life itself is risky. 

When do we leave all that behind and let fear, fear our positive mind. 

I remember the dead. But I also live with my positive friends side by side and love them and are fearless. 

How are you doing?

Be true to yourself. Don't be a shame. It is naturally you have doubts. It is the first step to go around and learn and let lose. 

Make being positive a positive thing.

A lesson of life and dead. 

Not only at the World Aids Day on the first of December.

Each day.

Each time.

LOVE & LIGHT

No child of mine

The other day I posted on Facebook a picture of me older then 15 years. It was part of the "Fotochallenge" where you have to post for five days each day one picture of yourself from a time 15 years and longer ago. Quite funny as most of us have to actually look out for the real photos and make a pic of them to get them on the computer or laptop. Yes, there was a time we only could make the pictures that way and we have been more careful in the way when we made one. It was to expensive to waste a photo. 

Anyway it made me think again of how a family is made and how much we discuss this these days and that some people still only call the so called traditional family a family- meaning : mother, father and a child or two. They say only this version leads to a lucky and happy life and only this way makes you a good human. 

Of course this is such bullshit as you always had different family constellations and those have been all good and children are able to enjoy life. 

I mean what is important for a child? Having two parents like mother and father as such or ... having a loving parent and someone you can trust and look up to. Someone who teach you important things in life and will listen when in need. 

Is it bad for children to have a father and a mother who are working mornings and evening and nights and have not much time left? Is it bad when a girl grows up at her fathers house with only him to look up to and he works full time? Is it bad when both parents travel along and take the kid with them and each time it has to get used to a new school? Is it bad when a grandmother or aunt takes care of you instead of a mother and a father? Is it bad when you grow up in a children's home?

No, all children can have a happy time, may it be hard sometimes and may they see the person who takes care of them not that much, but as long those people give love and really care and listen and teach and see you as a precious, you will become a good human of course. 

Thieves and murderer have come out of functional families and so called traditional families. 

They are in no way a guarantee that a child will be happy, a good human, someone we will look up to. 

And no child cares itself about who the person is, if the person is gay, women, man, old or young. All they want is to be able to trust you, to find home at your side and someone to ask and please for help, someone who will show and teach them.

Bad things happen in every family, no matter how the family is made. Yes, that means that no version is the best. No version is the only one and right one and as many call the traditional family of mother and father and two children- they forget that the first family they say they look up to and is the role model (Maria and Jesu...) they live after- actually has two dads and a mother who got a child in no typical naturally way (no sex) and had only one child. The model those people claim is actually very young and the most time of mankind we had all kinds of families. 

So... to all with different families- let's stay happy and never let anyone tell you, you are worth less, worthless or not real. 

LOVE & LIGTH

Workin' monday through friday

After a hard works week many of us try to calm down and get some rest and want to feel peace. 

But there is often not much time for it. We have to keep up with the housecleaning, buy the food for the next week, wash our clothes and then we have family and friends. 

How do we manage then to get some energy back, as we are working it of from monday to friday? Not to mention those who work 7 days or more in a row. And always the money problem in the back, the question what to do next, what to buy and what to plan and so on and on. Sometimes it seems other people have it more easier then you, but actually most of us have it the same way more or lesson. 

Sometimes we even wonder how big families make it through the day itself. Working all day and then working home for the children and that nothing breaks apart. 

How will we reach a peaceful moment? 

We try it with sport. We meditate and do yoga. We do it as much as we can and often make it a competition. Most time with ourself. 

Many people believe to get peace and be yourself is only possible on special places and just to reach on holidays. Even then they make it a competition, something they plan they have to, they must achieve. 

But they all forget that getting a minute to breath in and out and feel relax is nothing you can enforce. The more you try it, the less success you will have and the more you are on the way to depression and bad mood. Exactly what you don't wanted. 

So, many flee into religious. And make it a sport to pray and live after some rules they don't questioning. Maybe after a while some of those people are convince that they have found inner peace and the right way. Religious often does and have this effect on people. Especially in the beginning. 

Even when you try to be a monk you can be wrong with believing that you are in the middle of yourself every time. The truth is- no one is and will be, but that is o.k.. 

Most then say they do fight to keep control and to stay in the middle but fighting just cost energy and gives you hopeless depression on it's way. 

So one thing is to understand that you have to let go fighting, which does not mean to give up everything and yourself, it is more to let lose and enjoy the moment and take it as it comes and try to avoid to name it or even if you do, so name it and put it away and get back to the present, the moment you are in and search for the best and positive.  

And no, you don't need a place without noise, traffic, work, people surrounding you. All you have to do is to let those things gone buy and take them as a part of your reality. Then you will feel peace. Then you will have the way to relax and calm down and get energy back. 

So taking a walk can have this effect. Sitting in a coffee, and taste the drink for real and smell the air and maybe just close your eyes for a moment and let things just pass buy. Then trouble can be around you and you will still feel good. 

We have to remember more often that all is in flow and nothing last forever and you always have a choice, even know that it is not always the easy way and sometimes it is just to vote from two bad things. But when we did, we can go on and have the next chance. 

Also we should remember whatever bad happen, we can catch good moment by our self and if it just to buy and ice cream and enjoy the moment of luxury. 

This will then also be the secret to make it good in your job and to find always a best way to get through tuff times, even know this also sounds more easy as it is. We are humans and have learned a lot to make it hard. This won't always leave us so easy. 

I know that as I have to face many times unpopular situation and discussion in my job and also I must be able to take into not so nice situations. I also have to remember myself to let lose and find something different after the job to get back to the energy I need for a hard work. But also I try to have it good at work as much as possible with keeping my empathy, mood and try to stay relax as I have learned that nothing breaks down immediately. You always have time to relax and can always make it go round again if something went wrong or another way as expected. It's the challenge I take as such and then I always try to see that I work with people who stand on their own place. Not judging is a part of that. 

Not always easy. 

Communication is also very important. They need to know. Whatever you do or it is- talk and talk and stay calm and have a minimum of understanding but also I try to be truthful in how fast or how much we can change things in the situation we are in. 

In these days when things get more and more unclear, unsure and stressful it is so important for each to remember to relax as we feel in our shoulders when we have stressed our self to much, when we expect to much, when we rush to fast and we feel it with other sorts of pain. 

It has a reason why I recommend massage and physiotherapy. It is why I spend money on it, even thought there are other things I would like t spend money to but health is so important and we learn this far to less and far to many are not really aware of the importance. 

And yes do your sport, meditation, yoga etc. but do it freely, do it without hesitating and let lose of competition. Just do it and try to have fun. And if you have a bad day, make a break and try again or another time. Not everyday is a good day to meditate.... but the more you practice, the better you'll get, the easier it will be and even then be aware there will be days you just can't make it. There will be days your meditation is a hard try and that is all. Don't worry, like with sport and yoga, just take it as it is and go on. Next time it will be better again.

Love & Light

The gardener

Some of my near and dear say a gardener has passed my way- meaning, am I doing the right job?

Well, I am good at my job and like the work but it is true, it's no big love and so I am not missing the work, when I have my days off. But doing some things in the garden, with plants and flowers I always miss it when I don't have the chance to do so. 

I love to work with them and could be there for hours and one of my dreams still is a little house and a big garden and I am very sure that I could survive this way. Thought I am not professional and just reading a book about gardening once in a while. 

I just do and watch and learn that way and seems to have a good hand with it. 

No, it does not always grow the way I hoped for but that is the way it is for a gardener to see, which plant likes which place and what can you do to make it better, more beautiful and it is absolutely a never ending story as you start each year anew and a garden, even a balcony is never finished. But like the most gardener and hobby gardener we know this is part of what we enjoy. Have the plants survive? What about a new combination of plants and do they like each other this year? Have I bought a good plant and will this seed grow and how fast, how much, how big?

Actually if the GDR was still in existence I had no other choice then to become a gardener as I am handicapped and so we only had a couple of jobs we were allowed to learn and practice. Yes, we were second hand citizen. We have been good enough for the worst job and the stupid one. 

But having grown in a time when it was normal to have a garden to plant vegetable, fruits and herbs, I have learned by my grandmother a big deal how to maintain a garden. 

I guess in the next years I will finally have my own garden as going from balcony to roof garden makes it very likely to make this dream come true. 

And then I will always see the little beauty inside a garden, between the leaves, the branches like you can see on the following pics. And if you look closer you'll see that there is always a little changing.

Enjoy and if you like write me your experiences and thoughts about gardening. 

Love & Light

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Make a break!

Yes, that what was needed as I started a new job and had very much to do and get used to.  Working at a new place is mostly exhausting and in nursing and leading a group too it sure is. But after all it went well but gave me also much to think about what do I want and to remember that patience is important until you are really used to the new working place. Expectations are always high, especially when you're not the youngest. In the same time I just had moved and got used to a new lifestyle, as I used to live alone.

Living in Berlin is always a challenge and as things there always change, so your own impressions and feelings. But it is very interesting for me to see how much my own view on the town has changed in the last years and how far away I got and the result is that I am going to move to another town and place in the next years. Not sure when this will happen, as I just start to make my B.A. in medicine.

The new situation also made me think twice about working in Sweden again and then make it like a half year there and a half year stay in Berlin. But then it would be just to study and live and no work.

But as love life seems to work I also have to think about what happens with us...? Will he come with me? Where does he wants to live? 

Lucky as I am, he also wants to move away in the next years. Not now but in the future. But will it be Sweden? I am not that sure as he never was in Sweden himself and so when I made my break and traveled back to Gothenburg and visited my friends and second family I tried to see and find new things and ways to look at this place I knew. 

Some places do really look very similar to places in Germany and maybe just the roof is different. In town they build a lot these days and so you can discover a new tram line and again that old and new are mixed and next to each other. Also it is something special to have an amusement park in town you'll see when you come from outside Gothenburg by highway.

It is for sure much quieter to live in Gothenburg as in Berlin, thought it can be very lonely too there. And I don't know but I am a bit over the way of living in Berlin and ready for a live with less stress- or better less negative stress. 

Summer in Sweden can be very nice and of course visiting the islands is a must, as there it is really beautiful and peaceful to take a walk. But don't wonder if you won't be the only one.

I saw many friends on these three days and had some wonderful conversations. It always feels like home. And this break was appreciated as it seems I had worked such a long time- thought it was not that long ago that I started the new job. But then I am sure part of the need was, the so called wanderlust and that I was already so over Berlin. I do not feel home any longer there. 

Now I feel much better and hope you can enjoy my pictures and get an idea how wonderful it can be. This town has culture, food, ways to walk, nature and sun and even nice people living there. It is a bigger town as you may imagine and calm but not to calm after all- a bit traffic is always going on. 

Love & Light

first day I arrived late afternoon to have dinner with my dear colleague

second day I started with waiting in the bus station and enjoying the luck of sun and warm weather

in town and around you'll find those big rocks... actually they are no rocks it's what the ground is made of in many parts - stone

the blue bus who always brings me to town as I used to live at my second family in Landvetter and I do really love them

tram and buss stop - Brunsparken- in the centre of Gothenburg

I did well mention some things seems familiar...

a look to the centre from the river... or better from a bridge over the river

just on the other side the harbor and the new tram line

the opera house and the "lipstick" a office block

like I said- old and new next to each other

marine ships next to the harbor

click on the pics to get them bigger :-)

finally some typical houses.. 

the amusement park and the big ferris wheel and the three Gotha towers...

How could I not get some cake and coffee and a newspaper !

an international sailing competition took place

there is always another boat and you should make sure to be on the right one

your own little boat next to your home- how about that?

a view of the island Styrso Bratten 

inside it look kind of blue

bad  weather- no just salty water!