Martin um die Welt

Sonntag, 13. November 2016

Autumn in Leipzig with Emilia

We started Franzi's birthday (29.09.) eating breakfast with friends, followed by a visit to our wedding location in Kahnsdorf and finished the day with a bbq get together.

breakfast with Cons&Lea at our terrace

visiting our wedding location in Kahnsdorf

bbq party at our terrace

October 2nd, we visited Leipzig Zoo togeth with my sister and her family. The zoo was super busy due to Sunday. Yet, it was fun to see all the animals and my niece and nephew were happy to spend a day with their little cousin Emilia.

a meerkat was on the watch for enemies

the giraffe stick out it't tounge

my sister's family

the seal and the heron enjoyed the sun

the chameleon was hiding...

October 16th, we placed the love lock that we were giving at our wedding from friends.

Franzi placing our love lock

Emilia enjoys the sunny autumn day

October 21st, we attended the wedding of Benni&Anja and I had the honor to return Benni the favor and be his groomsman.

Anja & Benni

Franzi, Emilia and I

October 23rd, Emilia was visited by Franzi's friends Lisa and Bine and we visited lake Zwenkau.

Lisa, Franzi, Emilia and Bine

October 24th, we had a photo shooting for Emilia with our wedding photograph Ralph.

November 6th, we drove to Wechselburg and hiked to Rochlitz Hill and from there back to Wechselburg via Sörnzig and Fischheim. The autumn colors were gorgeous and the view from the hill was great. Wechselburg is also a cute village.

View from Rochlitz Hill...

great autumn colors and a wide view

November 12th, we went on our first little bike tour with Emilia to lake Cospuden.

November 13th, we met Franzi's friends Mone & Martin in Halle and went for another hiking trip. We hiked from Giebichenstein along the Saale river and finished our tour at the castle. Dressed in our hiking clothes, we then visited the kinda fancy restaurant Alchemistenklause and we were indeed the only people dressed like that^^

Martin, I, Franzi and Mone at the Saale river

Castle Giebichenstein

Sonntag, 25. September 2016

Seefeld in Tirol, Austria

End of September we went on our first trip as family. I was invited to give a talk during the EMBO workshop "The modularity of signalling networks and proteins". Given that Emilia was so young, we didn't want to be separated and so Emilia and Franzi joined me in visiting Seefeld in Tirol in Austria. On Tuesday (20.09.) we drove from Leipzig to Seefeld with a short rest in Ingolstadt. We stayed at Hotel Viktoria, which was very pleasent. The next morning, we explored the beautiful landscape of Seefeld before I attended the conference at the afternoon and evening. I gave my talk at Thursday morning and in the afternoon we hiked to Reither Jochalm, which was quite a way with the stroller. Friday noon, we visited nearby Mösern. From the bell of peace we had a great view across the Oberinntal and the Möserer lake was nice too. At late afternoon, we visited the Leutascher gorge, which offered a great walk over the steep gorge.
And at the end of the trip, we visited Franzi's sister in Augsburg.