Tour life - Hello Red Bull, Good Bye sleep

Some pictures i took with my phone on this weekend's tour with the Beatles around Saxony... i think if i go on like that, i need extra weekends after the actual weekends. I broke up with sleep and started dating Red Bull now...

Red hair and The Beatles or : how my life became very surreal

I wanted a change all the time, I was just not brave enough until now - it is a strange thing with me and my hair. Since i could think i always got a new hairdo whenever I felt my personality is changing in one or the other way. This way I have had long hair, short hair, black, brown, even blonde and copper hair and at times, some purple in it. Now that my life has changed again, i needed something to feel more comfortable with, something that describes myself.. and i fell for red. A wild, fresh and exciting color. Because it matches my life. Wild and exciting - that's what it became. Right now i feel like i am living two seperate lifes at once. One part of my life is the ordinary one: my job, getting home, go for swimming, do the things you have to do. The other part starts on Friday afternoons and ends on Monday mornings - and that part rocks. Very funny circumstances let to me kind of part time touring with The Beatles now. Yeh, The Beatles. Well, at least their greatest revival band, which is having a muscial with about 50 shows around Germany now. And this is not only exciting as for getting an insight into the life of musicians - on stage and backstage, but also it gave me the possibility to meet some amazing people, the band and the crew are lovely to talk to and so much fun to hang out with. I haven't smiled THAT much in a while. I still don't know how i got there but that i something i don't think about - i rather do what i am best at: living and loving the moment.

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2012 and New Years tour around Germany

By the end of 2011 i said "2012 can't be even better, that's impossible." I was proved (very) wrong. Not only did i find a new job, which i feel so much more comfortable with, but I also found love, travelled to Ireland (2 times), Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, France, UK and around Germany, I went to brilliant concerts such as Amy MacDonald or Train, made new friends and had all the fun in the world! All of this is incredible and fascinating and i cannot even wait for the future, there is so much more ahead! USA and Bruce Springsteen in June, for example. But the last month of 2012 has really been the best. I have been to Ireland to visit my friend, now he was in Germany which lead me to tour around my own country and see places i have never even seen before, especially up in the north, it was beautiful! And i never even knew how crazy Germans can be. All that time travelling i pretended to be Irish so Pat wouldn't feel too lost and it amazes me to see how friendly and fun Germans can be :-) Cheers to that and cheers to another happy year!

"What are you doing?" "I am looking at Aer Lingus' website, checking for a flight for you"

...and this is literally how it started. I actually took some days off to go to Belgium in order to see a friend...but unfortunately, poor Briseida broke her ancle and we had to postpone the trip. So i thought - well, why not ask Patrick...two and a half weeks later i found myself in Munich, sitting in a plane about to start off to Dublin. Landing in Dublin all i could think was: what the actual fuck are you doing. Now i know, i did the best thing ever. I went there to meet lovely Patrick, who i got to know on a commons friends birthday party in 2008. I visited him in January and that is where the friendship began. By now i consider him one of the most special persons in my life. My spontaenous trip to Ireland was (to say it in Irish words) "the craic"! I have had the most amazing and funny times, met some amazing people, seen amazing things like the Giants Causeway, all up north... got to drive a huuuge car on Ireland motorways, by coincidence found out that my favourite band ( Check them out in the link i put below!!!) are in Dublin whilst i was there and spend two days in the UK - Belfast. Whenever I have been to Ireland, I have been in county Cork only (except for a day or two...) so this was completely new and exciting to me :-) Thank you Pat for the a m a z i n g time...! Best of all: if we are lucky, he will be in Germany with me on friday! If we are not lucky...I will be flying to London on Saturday. I cannot stop thinking about how crazy my life is and i could not love it more! I am thankful to have a good job, amazing friends, the best flatmate in the world, a lovely family...and generally, a good life. Not many have such a life and i know that i can feel blessed about it - and i do, i do...

November - Work, packing bags, booking flights and anaesthesia

I was never the type of person to enjoy autumn very much and it was indeed a bit of a stressful autumn. There are times when you should listen to your body. Imagine someone keeps on shouting at you, shouting "hey you slow down! stop for a while!" well. That is exactly what i ignored. End of story was me ending up in a medical checkup in hospital, knocked out by anaesthestics. Funny how the last thing I remember is calling the nurse "Hey! There is something wrong i am still wide awake..." and the next thing I knew was waking up in a completely different room saying dumb things like "May i ask you a question? Am i already done?" :)

I feel much better now though and it was, again, no kind of negative stress i have been through, it was positive stress. I found a new job and put all my energy and thoughts on it. It has been two months there now and i start to feel really comfortable and good there and able to calm down and relax. Besides work, i booked my flight to NEW YORK CITY where i will go on June 1st with my flatmate Simon, visiting his family in NY, Washington DC and Charleston. Philadelphia is also on our list of must see's. I was never the type to be super excited about travelling, because it became kind of a routine. Every journey is special and exciting to me, the people i meet and the things i see, it is just my greatest hobby - but the thrill of anticipation is not the same anymore. However, it is different with America. You may not believe it but i have never been on any other continent except Europe. Talking about Europe, i will sit on a plane to Dublin in three days, which is incredible. Like, incredible. Because it was unplanned! It was a quick decision made up in a skype conversation with my dear Patrick, who is from Cork - where i used to live. It will be the first time for me going to Ireland and NOT seeing Cork but a completely different part - the north. Wicklow mountains, Belfast, Northern Ireland in general. By the end of the year i'll have been to Ireland, UK, Italy (including Vatican), Czech Republic, France and Spain which is like mind-blowing. It makes me realize that i am blessed with the greatest life i could think of. The people in it, the things i have seen - so much beauty sometimes i think it is more than i can take... I am off for now - i need to pack my bags as i won't get to do it the next two days. Tuesday i am off to Munich and wednesday morning i'll be up in the air... On cloud number nine ;) Last but not least, enjoy my little november collection of pictures...ugh, i need a new camera. My CANON got stolen in Spain and i still didn't manage to buy a new one...

Shooting "Living History"

When Simon (my best friend) and I attented another medieval event in october we met Stephan and Daniel - two photographers, when hiding in a tend as it was raining so much. Somehow we started chatting until they asked to take pictures of us in our customes. So we met - one day later. Now that was a very spontaenous shooting and the first time i ever had an actual shooting and wasn't behind the camera!

Pictures by Stephan Feige and Daniel Bossy

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