A feeling of hope

We’ve pulled the raw footage from the Mare Nostrum concert out of the archives and are releasing it on our YouTube channel. “As artists, it is our task to keep hope alive and give people courage.” Jordi Savall For many decades, the central element of Jordi Savall’s musical work has […]

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Fortune Seekers

An event shaped by the spirit of Lannavaara that embodies a deep human need: the search for happiness. «Some day before the Swedish Gold Panning Championships took place, Jürg and Veronika turned off towards Lannavaara to stay overnight. They had no idea they would end up right in the middle […]

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La Chaux d’Abel

A brief overview of a beautiful world in the Jura October 2022 and May 2023 Year by Year – Johr y Johr usSpring is one of the most beautiful things we still have in the world. Winter must give way to spring, even if the snow is still deep. So […]

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low tide

A walk along the “Plage de Tréompan”, Ploudalmézeau, Brittany – France

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Power of Nature

On the road from Les Bois in the Jura to Portsall in Brittany. From October 2022 to April 2023. Powerful encounters, wondrous figures, plays of color, pearlescent shimmer, and fairy dances.

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Alpine Dishes: Blueberry Bread

Early-summer office in Winterthur. A shipment of organic blueberries from “gebana” has arrived. I remember the collection “Alpine Recipes” that was gifted to us at the Werdenberg nursing home. It includes blueberry bread. Time to try it out.

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Amoco Cadiz

PortsallDigital nomad life keeps bringing us to the most wonderful places. A happy coincidence takes us to Portsall in the Finistère department, in the westernmost part of Brittany—the end of the world (or the gateway to a new world). Nothing suggests anymore that forty-four years ago, one of the greatest […]

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The Rauhnächte Wishes

Bidding farewell to the old year and inviting the new, December 25, 2021 to January 6, 2022, the magical time around Christmas and New Year, the time between times – the Rauhnächte. As was tradition in some regions of Austria for these nights, I also baked Buchteln. Various ideas and […]

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Buchteln

The summer abundance of apricots at Hauerhof 99 in Kritzendorf still provides us with delicious jam here in Andalusia. Pure apricot flavor. In the travel cooking box, I discover another packet of Viennese baking sugar. It has a recipe on the back. Buchteln. Childhood memories. Memories of mother and grandmother. […]

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A view across the sea to Africa

campus vivant’e – what a powerful educational initiative, an email from Morocco “…this year I had to think of you particularly often – doors are currently opening in the country and to the highest educational levels, which we could not have dreamed of…our designation as the country’s only model school […]

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