South-West Gets Scholziger

Last Sunday I visited Dr. Knoch again, this time with different and very interesting people! Great, I won’t tell much because I can’t always tell everything. This week is quite chaotic because my boss from Konstanz (Germany) is currently here, I have to organise many things and the coming weekend I will go hiking in [...]

I can shit certificates like you need authorisations to shit. The last two conference days have really been great and resulted in much paper stuff and many maps. I will give you a short summary because I don’t want to translate the topics of all interesting (all) projects from Spanish to English: In general everything [...]

This night I spent at Jens’ house, a German teacher. What a great house he has, located on top of a hill, country house style with much wood. Great view in direction south of Caracas, if you walk a few metres you will get an even greater view over Caracas at the summits of Avila [...]

Adventure! Again I have material to fill half a book but I will not tell anything yet, just post the most prevailing stuff. On Friday I visited the Venezuelan seismic institute Funvisis where I met Michael, a German geophysics professor who lives here for many years and who wants to convince me to write my [...]

Today I’m going to beef. If you have problems with emotional outbursts of fury, dirty words or other vulgar expressions, you should better leave this page by clicking the small “x” in the top right corner. I don’t know what the problem is in this country, but something smells really bad. Carlos talks the whole [...]

When the last observation is taken, The theodolite stowed in its box, An the surveyor’s coffined up also And his soul at St. Peters gate knocks; Then this surveyor, not understanding That all of the earthly troubles he’s rid, Says to Peter, ‘Come over and tell me What projection you and what grid?’ And Peter [...]

My dear! Today I had a date at 10 am with a guide in Anare, I arrived on time and his wife directly approached: “He’s not here today, has to work till Friday.” … But I talked yesterday evening with him if everything gets clear. That’s Venezuela! Further on the gallery view of my posted [...]

Yeehaaw, WW2 in front of my door. Some person had the glad idea to build a new sanitation for whole Camurí Grande and now the whole gravel path in front of my house is ripped, you are not able to get in and out very well. Until now each house had an own pit for [...]