Balloni

A long time project entered into its next phase on December 31st, 2010! I am a happily married man!


We celebrated our wedding at a very nice venue in Cologne, called "Balloni". It was a great party into New Year 2011 and into a new exciting and happy life. Many of our friends from all over made the effort to join us in Cologne and celebrated this wonderful event together with us. We both appreciate the time with our families and friends very much and are very grateful for having such a nice wedding party.


Just on the next day we left for our honeymoon to Namibia. We picked up our 4x4 camper in Windhoek and went straight into the dry Namibian desert, spending the first night of our honeymoon in our camper at a fire, where we barbecued some veggies and lots of meat. For the next two and half weeks we drove thousands of kilometers through the desert, slept somewhere in the wilderness and had neither Internet nor cell phone access (the latter at least occasionally). Just in the middle of our honeymoon desert trip, my new married wife Annette surprised me with a wedding gift: a ballooning across the mighty red dunes of Soussosvlei at sunrise. The balloon took off just 20 minutes before the sun came up behind the mountains and illuminated the giant dunes with a deep red light. What a view! And what a wonderful experience! We went across the desert during sunrise, having an awesome view on the mountains, the desert and the dunes. We even spotted a lot of game from above, spreading long shadows on the ground, which made them look like rock paintings. After landing the pilot served a very well prepared breakfast including champagne in the middle of the desert.


We will definitely return to Namibia (latest on our planned world trip) and we will visit all the places that we needed to leave out this time. However there will be also places where we will return to. You can imagine that I have taken a few images during our trip and I guess, I will post some of them either here and / or on my flickr site.