Welcome to my page - katrin-ziegler.de

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
Doubts – Power talk for myself…

Two weeks from now, I’ll already be in Toronto, or rather, I’ll be arriving soon. It’s kind of scary… I’m not feeling so great right now… I spent the whole week clearing out my apartment and everything was fine.
Today, we moved the first big pieces of furniture into the basement and suddenly the apartment feels really empty.
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22. April 2010
Less than a month……huaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh……….

No idea what kind of sound that last bit was… maybe something like when you’re trying to lift a piano… well, maybe more horror-like … Like when you realize that the piano you just had in your hands is now moving towards your big toe at a high speed… probably something in that direction…
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14. April 2010
What’s new….

….so, one month from today I’m already in Canada – hopefully the weather then is better than the weather here is now: grey, rainy and temps around 10°C…. after one single day of remindeding us how spring’s supposed to be: warm, sunny with blue skies…

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8. April 2010
If you really wanna annoy me….

… please tell me over and over again how fantastic it is that I’m going to Canada, you would love to do that yourself but you could never do that. When I answer that it’s not THAT complicated “just book a flight, quit your job and leave your flat” please say “oh no… do you have a job there or at least know anybody?”
When I tell you that I actually don’t have a job, not even plans for it, and I absolutely know anybody there, please repeat over and over again how absolutely brave I am until you can see it coming out of my ears – then you really made it.

Besides: don’t you never ever take me too serious but puhhhhhhhhhhhhhlease just tell me how envious you are and that I should buy I guest house so that you can come and visit me – and keep the other thoughts to yourself 😉

26. March 2010
Fantastic end of a nervous day….

…I just ran 8ks and actually enjoyed it!!!!

Thanks to my boys, Matthias, Barry and the guy from the bookstore who always make me feel special 🙂 And a very special thanks to Mario who asked me this afternoon when I told him about running “Why don’t you just run an hour?” I looked at him and said “Because I already torture myself with 30 minutes”. And then I just did it. The first 8 minutes I was absolutely dying: every single muscle in both feet hurt like hell. After 10 minutes I couldn’t run anymore and I started walking for the next two minutes. Then I started running again and only stopped about 38 minutes later in absolutely fantastic shape because I got faster the longer I ran.

Tomorrow I’m going to have dinner with Petra and replace all the lost calories and on Thursday I’ll see if I can do the same miracle again 🙂

23. March 2010
Short update….

….The flight is booked, so there is now a fixed date:

on May, 6th 2010

I’m headed West.

Directly from Frankfurt to Toronto, just under 3 hours flying time… if you ignore the time difference 😉

Well, apart from that, I’ve been super busy: I’ve got my visa, I’ve quit my job and given up my apartment, I’ve booked my flight, half an hour ago I became the proud owner of long-term international health insurance with Victoria, and I’m working on finding a new home for my furniture and cat.

Still more than three months to go and almost nothing left to do… man oh man… and two weeks ago I still felt like I was sinking into total chaos. That’s how quickly things can change.

Next weekend I’ll probably try out the “couchsurfing” project for the first time, and then nothing can really go wrong 🙂

4. February 2010