Swabian Christmas cookies

Check out the new issue of "Servus in Stadt und Land Bayern" (12/2012, www.servusmagazin.de), Mrs. Breumairs homemade cookies and biscuits are really delicious! And if you want to buy some: look around or ask in Affing, a little village near Augsburg, she sells her traditional collection of Christmas sweets in her farmshop...

Vienna and Melk...

It´s been a long time since I posted something on this blog. Yesterday I came back from a kind of research trip to Vienna and some other places in Upper Austria, including visits to the headquarters of the UN organisations, to Kaisermühlen (public housing areas, built in the Twenties and Thirties of the 20th century in Vienna) and to some villages by the Danube near the city of Melk. This has to be reason enough to show some photographs from the last five days...

Situation at Puerta de Hierro is deteriorating

The situation at the settlement of Puera de Hierro in Madrid is deteriorating after the last actions of demolition on july 17th. I forward here an article published last month by Amnesty International a, emphasizing specially the mediacal condition of Shakira, the girl in the picture, serously ill and diagnosed with cerebreal tumor a few weeks ago: http://www.es.amnesty.org/actua/acciones/desalojo-puerta-hierro/

Exhibition Puerta de Hierro, Madrid

Organized by the Commission of Social Issues of the Popular Assembly of Moncloa, the people still living at Puerta de Hierro invite interessted people to visit their homes and see some of my photographs. Two weeks ago, I heard yesterday, another house has been demolished at Puerta de Hierro, where many families already leave in very bad conditions. All the best to my friends Mila,, Antonio, Carmen, Mari Carmen, Merche and all of you who offered your generous hospitality to me during my stay at your homes. Stay strong!

More information: http://asambleapopularmoncloadebod.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/difusion-expo-puerta-de-hierro/

Corpus Christi in Fischbachau

Last Thursday, June 7th, the catholic worshippers of Fischbachau celebrated their Corpus Christ processions through the streets and fields of the village...

Puerta de Hierro en Diagonal

Photo essay on the Roma community in Puerta de Hierro (Madrid) in Diagonal...

Putting up a May pole

A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of Bavarian spring celebrations, usually the first day of may. Here are some pictures taken this year in Geitau, near Bayrischzell...