Sometime in December of last year, right before my heart was about to really be broken for the first time in my life and I was already feeling the decline, a post popped up in my facebook timeline offering an apartment swap in Reykjavík for the whole of May 2017. …
In the early summer days of 2016, H. and I went on a really short trip to Sicily. We booked a tiny car and a wonderfully charming Airbnb surrounded by lemon trees in the middle of the old city of Modica. We had fantastic food and found peace of mind …
Two weeks ago I returned from New York. It was a short and crazy trip (I also went to Pennsylvania for a few days, but that’s another story). Packing, I had expected a little bit of snow and some cooler temperatures, but arriving, I realized that I had totally under-estimated …
As some of you may know, I spent a week in New York from September 3 – 11. I am still battling the jet lag away (and a really bad cold), but New York was just lovely! It had been soooo long and I definitely got back in the vibe. …
So, it’s precisely two weeks (+one day) until my first big journey sans bébé. I’m so excited, you have no idea. New York has a very special place in my heart and if I was forced to leave Berlin, New York (or moreover Brooklyn) would be one of my …
For a while I have wanted to make a trip through my home country and explore the obvious, the unspectacular, and to search for the common and familiar in my surroundings. After traveling so much and so far in the past few years I felt ready for a bit of …
Gebt mir Tipps, für tolle Orte in Deutschland. Vorweg, ich habe mir etwas überlegt: Heute schreibe ich einfach mal auf Deutsch. Mein Blog war in den letzten Jahren ja so etwas wie mein persönliches Englisch-Bootcamp, aber immer wieder wird mir bewusst dass meine Leser ja nun wirklich vorrangig deutschsprachig …
When in Madrid, I took street photos, commissioned by a British client. I am so happy this job made the trip possible and couldn’t be more satisfied with the results. And my client is very happy, too. All photos: Carolin Weinkopf
Istanbul had been on my top travel list for years, but somehow I never made it there. On my way to Macedonia right after finding out I was >>pregnant<< almost two years ago, I actually had a >>10 hour stopover<< there, but hey, I definitely had other things in mind …
When I first landed in >>Oman<< in the middle of the night two years ago, I remember not being able to sleep because the view from my bedroom window was just too exciting. I had never been to the middle east and it was really too bewitching to just sleep. …