Canoeing on the Regen

Family & Friends, Germany, Hobbies, Travelling

This week, we went canoeing on the Regen river. We started at the Blaibach reservoir, which is located at kilometre 107, and paddled all the way to the Danube junction in Regensburg.

Spread over five days, we covered around 20 kilometres a day, totalling 107 kilometres, and spent the night in Cham, Roding, Nittenau and Ramspau (Regenstauf). We got the four-person canoe from Zankl and enjoyed four wonderful stays at the Hotel am Regenbogen, the Gasthof Hecht, the Campingplatz Nittenau and the Ramspauer Hof, respectively.

While it wasn’t exactly relaxing, being surrounded by nature and staying in nice places with good food at the end of the day made it a very enjoyable experience overall.

You can find some pictures and a map showing the route, places where we got or could have gotten off, and more below.

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Partnach spring and the Reintalanger Hut

Family & Friends, Hiking, Hobbies

This weekend, we hiked through the Reintal from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to the Partnach spring and back. The route, which is approximately 32 km in total, follows forest roads and hiking trails along the Partnach river through absolutely stunning countryside.

We stopped at Bock Hut for drinks and spent the night at Reintalanger Hut. Both are great places to rest and/or spend the night. Our stay at Reintalanger Hut was made even better by a delicious ecological dinner and breakfast.

I would definitely recommend the trip/tour.

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Quantum Coasters

Design, Munich Quantum Valley, Outreach, Physics

As part of our outreach activities at Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) to celebrate the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, we decided to participate in this year’s Munich edition of Pint of Science in May by opening the MQV Quantum Pub.

In order to adapt our merchandising and educational materials to the pub environment, I came up with the idea for a set of quantum-inspired drink coasters. From coasters with Schrödinger’s cat dead and/or alive and a drink inspired single-qubit-gate coaster, to a full set of quantum-circuit gates to build and discuss your own quantum circuit while having a drink, our media designer Flavio did a great job putting together the visuals for this nice little project.

So look out for one of our upcoming public events and you might just come across our new educational quantum coasters.

Archery club website

Archery, Computers and IT, Munich, World Wide Web

With the start of the new year I created a new website for my local archery club TFBS München e.V. [German], adding it to the growing list of websites I set up for clubs, schools and outreach activities.

A simple WordPress site along with some scripting to display calendar events and views, which I might extend with some interactive content and event-registration scrips at some point.

That said, we are always looking for new members (younger and less young) to join us [German] …