They go to Graz to buy ice cream and it’s her first time on the train. She is amazed. Her eyes register the landscape passing...
Archive for month: december 2013
the S-bahn in Berlin (video)
It’s four o’clock, rush hour is about to start. In a warm carriage people don’t look exactly happy. I ask around who want’s to draw....
In a crowded train
Just ten minutes after leaving Berlin this is the scene. You don’t need that much space. I share the ride with two girls also interrailing...
Mauerpark
It’s a sunny Sunday in Berlin. So what better way then spend it in Mauerpark at the flea market and the bearpit Karaoke. Where 25...
Yuma
A story I formerly shared in the More Beautiful Moments Mailing for supporters: In a park in Helsinki I meet 6-year-old Yuma. He starts drawing...
a moment from a shop owner
I meet her in a park in Oslo. Lying in the sun, she is reading a book. She has a one week holiday, because she...
A reconciliation hug
“My daughter is three. So she has quite some tantrums and often we clinch. But we always make it right. After a big clinch she...
hiking on their honeymoon
A couple on their way back from honeymoon. Unknown to each other they both draw the same moment. After days of rain the sun is...
amazement in the night train from Boden to Sundsvall
Gretchen, a lady from Millwaukee comes to me: “Excuse me, but I was just over there in the other end of the carriage and everybody...
Tallshipraces
The tallships are in town. So together with Maria I head to Suomenlinna. It’s an island just outside Helsinki on which a big fortress was...