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  • Travels
    • 2004 New Zealand
    • 2010 Working Holiday Canada
    • 2011 Canada
    • 2012 Cargo ship to the Caribbean
      • Cargoship Travel – FAQs
    • 2018 Cycling through Germany
  • Photographs
    • Close-ups
    • Landscapes
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    • Back pain
      • Long term & prevention
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    • Cycling
  • About me
  • katrin-ziegler.de
    • 2004 New Zealand
    • 2010 Working Holiday Canada
    • 2011 Canada
    • 2012 Cargo ship to the Caribbean
    • 2018 Cycling through Germany
    • Close-ups
    • Landscapes
    • Instagram
    • Pixelfed
  • Life hacks
  • Links
      • Long term & prevention
        • General
        • Upper back & shoulders
        • Lower back
      • My Training diary
    • Cycling
  • About me

My travel adventures

& some other stuff

  • Welcome to my Website!

    Hello and welcome to my page 🙂

    I’m Katrin and I used to travel a lot in my 30ies.
    Currently (2026), I’m working on including all my old travel blogs to keep all these good memories alive.

    I’m also adding some new things, e.g. DIY recipes and content about my current photography and sports activities.
    So you’ll find a pretty colourful mixture here 🙂
    And maybe there’s something interesting in there for you as well.

    Enjoy!
    And please let me know if you find any errors or inconsistencies in the contact form. Thanks!

    28. April 2026
  • Day 2: 1st full day aboard

    Day 2: 1st full day aboard

    Saturady, 23rd June 2012 9:50 AM:

    Alright, the first night is over and after initially battling hunger,
    cold, headache, and general discomfort (basically everything except seasickness), I ended up sleeping reasonably well.
    I woke up pretty sweaty and extremely hungry. Since I’ve been
    on board, I’ve been hungry all the time, even more so than at home.

    I was also an hour late, as it turned out, because my cell phone, which I used as an alarm clock, apparently was already in the next time zone.

    (more…)
    23. June 2012
  • Day 1: Boarding in Le Havre, first impressions on board

    Day 1: Boarding in Le Havre, first impressions on board

    Friday, 22 of June 2012, 10:28 AM (Le Havre)

    Once again, I feel like an idiot and wonder whether this feeling will ever go away this year and how I ever got the idea to go on a ship sailing under the French flag of all things???

    (more…)
    22. June 2012
  • Pre-Holiday jitters, part 2

    I’m sure you’re curious how my day yesterday ended …well, in short: I didn’t do anything from my list 😉
    I went up to the village center in order to go to the new arrivals meeting. I was a bit early and strolled through the big antiques market which was here for the weekend. I heard some French, a lot of Swiss German and saw soooooooooooooooooooo many things (about 80% of the stuff they were selling) which only serve to fill up a house or a flat. And I decided, I’m not going to buy anything at all  to just clutter up my flat, more likely the opposite and that it’s very likely that I’m gone before I’m concerned by any of the things they are going to tell at the meeting. So, I just skipped it….BUT… at least I did my grocery shopping while I was already at the mall…yay :-))

    Back at home I started to read two books… I started with “If nobody talks about remarkable things” by John McGregor…wooooooooooow…you really have to get used to his style but the book is super exciting and has a suprising end… after 2-3 hours I had to change to something lighter and found “Wishcraft” by Barbara Sher which I had downloaded from her website in the morning. Yeeah…I know, it’s one of these “selfhelp” books…but they usually work fine until I’m back on my normal enthusiastic level ;-))

    And it had its motivating effect on me as well (that’s probably why she already sold a few thousand …or million??…copies) and so while most of my neighbours spend their evening beside the BBQ, I did a 7.5km (roughly 4.6 miles) run and finished the evening off with “The mechanic”… So after all not a too bad day…. :-))

    17. June 2012
  • Pre-holiday jitters

    When I woke up, I was already in a bad mood (a good sign that I’m nervous)… the plan for today was:

    – 8:30 AM: cycle to the animal shelter and take a look around, take a dog for a walk or just see where it is
    – 2:00 PM: go to the meeting for new arrivals in our village
    – 6:00 PM: go to the Grizzli’s match vs. Biel (American Football)

    (more…)
    16. June 2012
  • Excited

    Excited

    So, this was it: my last phone call to my parents before they go on holiday and before I face my new big adventure this year.

    (more…)

    6. June 2012
  • Lunch wisdom

    Some days ago a collegue from work mentioned Dr. Seuss and his poems full of wisdom to me and this is one I especially like:

    You have brains in your head.
    You have feet in your shoes.
    You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
    You’re on your own.
    And you know what you know.
    You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
    ~Dr. Seuss



    well, I supposed the same applies to girls…tsssss…..tssss…… Dr. Seuss… ;-))


    ….wait….here I found another one:




    “be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind”

    6. June 2012
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