Kategorie: 2016
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One week to go
October 04 – Tuesday Allmählich beginnen bei uns dann doch die finalen Vorbereitungen. Unser Busch-Taxi hat schon seit Wochen einen deutlichen Vorsprung. Am 7. September haben wir unseren Toyo in Mainz (Spedition Frankenbach) in einen 20-Fuß-Container gefahren. Ich hatte befürchtet, die Solarzellen abbauen zu müssen, aber dank Luft-aus-dem-Reifen-lassen ging es gerade noch so. Viel höher dürfte…
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Why LCs are a solid business
How many displays had Livingstone when he discovered the Victoria Falls? No idea what we are going to discover … Whatever it may be, we have the devices to find, document and communicate it. We will be supported by seven displays and their many small liquid crystals. We would be lost without the company which made communication visible.…
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Robben Island
10 Oct, 10 p.m. – The „Maersk Elgin“ approaches Cape Town and has already passed famous Robben Island. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that the container with our car still is on the vessel – or that at least the „Robben“ (Africaans, Dutch, German for seal) have fun with my toy. 10. Oktober, 22 Uhr: Unser…
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Leaving, on a jet plane
… don’t know when I’ll be back again, (John Denver). Full of joy and happiness about leaving – the only sad thing is leaving these two behind.
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Let’s go
Yesterday we arrived on the other side of the world … Here you see South Africas four (4!) Nobel Peace Prize winners (together with another candidate – after having educated three men…)
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Face-to-Face
End of turning upside down … One of these Nobel Prize Laureates was once a guest at the GEC (Merck’s Global Executive Conference) speaking about the prospects for Africa. I had the honour to take care of him for two days: Frederik Willem de Klerk. He ended Apartheid in South Africa transformed the country into a…
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Cape Town – from above
For sure one of the „1000 places to see before you die“: Table Mountain and the view of Cape Town.Recall Maradonna’s face after „we“ have beaten Argentina 4:0? It was in this stadium – built by the German architect Gerkan – that the Cape people never wanted as they have a rugby stadium just a…
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Cape Town – getting closer
Anybody out there who had expected that Darmstadt and Cape Town share the same coffee shop? One of the nicknames of Cape Town is „Tavern of the Seas“ – just think of what sailors did after having been on a ship for months. Another one can be seen in the entrance hall at the airport.…
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Cape of Good Hope
After an earlier than expected customs clearance we drove with our own car to the most South-Western point of our journey: Cape of Good Hope. And saw the first animals: Seals, penguins, ostriches …. and a nice little dragon.