Grisly Mexican Gods from Aztec to Catholicism
The prisoners are led by a priest through a cheering crowd of commoners towards the towering, 40 m high pyramid. …
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Look at Camera: The United States Immigration
“The computer tells me that I need one more travel document from you.” Sandra Gebhard-Fitzgerald stares at the screen and …
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Lovers in Verona
“There are such wonderful cool hills and green meadows in my home country!” Aida entices her lover Radames. Poor Aida. …
Reinhold Messner vs Count Trauttmansdorff in South Tyrol
„Have you seen everything?” the elderly man in braces staffing the cashier and book stall at the Messner Mountain Museum …
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Hiking in Chamonix – In the French Far East
“After reaching a little pass, you will have to cross several small snow fields,” our French hiking guidebook about Chamonix …
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Hiking in Valais – Half-way to Italy, half-way to France
„To Milano“ is written on the yellow road sign, and a cardboard announcement at the fence of a chicken farm …
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Rice Balls and Raclette below the Matterhorn in Zermatt
Coming up the mountain, we suddenly see about sixty Japanese sitting on the lawn in front of the Riffelberg Mountain …
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The Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers – Are you good at praying?
„Are you good at praying?” Brother Paul asks us, with a disconcerting gingerly smile. “Ummm, not really” we stutter. “If …
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Cherubs and Garden Gnomes along the Isar cycle path
“1500 meters altitude.” The two sun-tanned boys with stubbly faces and sinewy cyclists’ calves in the seats opposite are bent …
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Nice Weekend on German trains
“Letzter Halt: Osnabrück“ roars the automatic announcement through the local train. This train ends in Osnabrück. “Halt” can also mean …
