Beautiful Lake Starnberg in Bavaria

Hanover - the center of the world

All clocks in the same time zone here... ;-) good to be home though- if only short...

Great invention for travelers...

Wish I could have taken a nap at Munich airport- was soooo tired...

Thanksgiving craze and its origin

The other day one of my colleagues asked me if we celebrated Thanksgiving in Germany  - and although we do not in the classic sense, it got...

Very modern and spacy @Bloomberg Tower

Awesome office...

In this country everything can be delivered

As I just read even burger king is starting to deliver in the city...

Xmas season starting- too early for me

Setting up a little Xmas market on my street- curious about the level of kitchyness ;-)

But - like Obama said- new york will prevail!

Manhattan will prevail!!!

Again- the power of nature... I

Sandy is still everywhere...

Some buildings may remain closed for a while....

And my favorite shop seems get rebuilt though...

Deserted on a saturday afternoon...

Doesn't look like this one will be up and running for a while...

South Street Seaport...

Still completely blocked off... Shops closed and a lot of clean up to be done...

Nice view from the 42nd floor at the Allianz building in Midtown

Sandy hit Pier 25 too

Just heard that there is no more damage to my pier than I would have thought. Apparently all the sand is gone from the beachvolleyball field...

Ship stranded in staten island

Apparently they have a problem with extracting some of the oil...

The storm has taken its toll at the beach...

Those poor residents - it looked like a fleamarket out there...

No power, no heat, no water - after 16 days...

The storm was two weeks ago but here it felt like yesterday... A lot of clean-up work pending...

More devastation than I could have imagined...

Welcome to the Jersey Shore...

On the way to staten island...

Beautiful day to be outdoors...

The ferry is running but not everything is back to normal here- very few people too

And it looks like it could be a while...

Down here the subway is still not up and running...

Veteran's Day and Sandy Relief Efforts

After having signed up for helping a coat drive at the veteran's day parade and spending most of my Sunday, waiting to actually start w...

Another real veteran with a puppet...

Still trying to understand the whole thing about the parade - definitely a cultural thing... Might blog about it later...

Collecting coats & handing out flyers

But was still too warm- not many people had brought them to the parade. They can drop them till dec 31 at any police precinct or public libr...

National pride- I guess...

Some veterans also came on motor bikes...

True Obama fan...

Great dancing group

Kids in the parade

Waiving the flags...

Marching bands at the veteran's day parade

Amazing pic

Cover of the latest edition of New York magazine... Impressive picture - illustrates the division of the city - those who had power and thos...

Central park in the late fall

Jazz in the park

Nice little concert in central park- loved the area too. Upper west is actually nice...

This is New York too

Loads of trash piling up in the streets these days- wonder if the garbage trucks can't get through or what's going on down here... ...

South Street Seaport after Sandy

Unfortunately I know the shop a little too well - have been dragged in there before. And it's loud and the 'models' are super an...

Recognize the clothes? It's Anne Taylor - just little upside down...

Quite some cleaning up to be done here...

Downtown Manhattan Shops after the storm....

First snow I've seen in TriBeCa

But I am afraid it won't remain the only snow I see here- but it's supposed to get back into the 60's (maybe 10-15 celsius) agai...

Nor'Eastern coming...

So today's lesson is on how nasty a noreaster as they call the freezing, disgusting winter storms that get very wet and snowy here, real...

And the predictions worked

After some free champagne I have come to the realization that NY needed this. Obama had to win for NY in between Sandy and the NorthWesterne...

And all of a sudden it's Barack Obama!!

Congrats to the President who's also the president to be! Great atmosphere in this bar in the eastvillage...

My story - ok, in way too many words I admit

The hurricane is one of these connecting things that brought about not only a lot of suffering and horrible destruction but also a lot of i...

And the streets are still a little wet from the flooding

But it really looks better than I would have expected- the workers are back at the world trade center site and I am also starting to see som...

Now this explains why there are less people down here...