Category Archives: Germany

Acquarello – Cucina del Sole

Cooking, Germany, Munich

This week, with the kids on holidays and out of town, we finally managed to redeem a one-year-old birthday voucher for Mario Gamba’s Acquarello and had a very nice a-la-carte dinner for two.

Here’s a a few verbal and optical impressions of our very delicious self-made menu …

  • Fagottini amatriciana
  • Agnolotti del plin filled with Fassona beef on sage foam and sage butter
  • Veal chop with potato gratin and rosemary jus
  • St. Pierre fish fillet with asparagus
  • Transparent lemon fruit ravioli with yoghurt lime ice cream and coconut foam
  • Pineapple carpaccio / Mango / Coconut / Pina Colada ice cream

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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Quantum 2025

Berlin, Germany, Humboldt Universität, Munich Quantum Valley, Outreach, Physics, Quantum Science

Today, I had the pleasure of attending the official opening of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology in Germany, hosted by the German Physical Society at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

For me, it was not only the beginning of the celebration of 100 years of quantum science, but also a return to the place where I started my physics studies back in 2001.

Apart from that, we are also working on a number of events and activities within the Munich Quantum Valley to celebrate the quantum anniversary. You can find our ever-growing program for the general public on our dedicated MQV Quantum 2025 website.

Here are some impressions from the event, which included a talk by Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle to set the stage for the year:

My corona live life blog

Family & Friends, Germany, Munich

Given the certainly very unique situation caused by the current corona pandemic, I decided to set up a little live blog to document the next couple of weeks representing a mixtures of home office, home schooling, home day care and whatever is yet to come …

First of all, for those of you that are still wondering about the why, here is two interesting reads: Tomas Pueyo at Medium.com and Harry Stevens at WashingtonPost.com.

In the following live life blog, I’ll focus on a few specific, mostly non-work, activities whenever something comes up …

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