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it was quiet here over the summer while i was busy with the move of golegrand.de on blogger, or with life offline. those who track us on the iCloud shared album or by checking the photo page are already in the picture, for the rest here comes a recap of the last months. the guns n' roses played in munich mid of june and we were there too – the olympic park was crowded by far much more folks than the merano population counts! slash ran the show while axl rose showcased a line of clothing. at the turning of june/july we spent some days in hamburg. fun time back with friends, as well as a 50th birthday on 7-1-17. for the rest however it was... too rainy. too cold. too noisy. too crowded. too rat race style. a scratchy throat got me after two days – something not seen since our move to merano. and there were no mountain around… so at the end, we've been more than happy to get in back home. summer in south tyrol is made of days and days of sun and heat. one day you may...

today’s featured image: la mescla – where the verdon and artuby rivers meet. a detour off the martel track in the verdon gorges. so, this is what's been up since that awesome night with my friends the foo fighters in hamburg… june rocked hamburg. slash featuring myles kennedy & the conspirators were playing here too, and obviously we went to the show. great gig. july didn't brought us the summer as expected. hamburg was mostly stormy and felt cold. the fact remains that now, we're trained to run under pouring rain ;) we had an aussie migration consultant evaluating our chances for a permanent residency visa in australia, but the assessment results were not too optimistic – meaning a race against time (let's face it: we're too old), a lot of money and stress, and at the end no guarantee to be welcomed to stay – so, sadly, we've decide to abandon the project of spending the rest of our lives down under. instead, we switched to plan b, also...

grey-in-white-in-grey – damned winter. it makes me so apathetic and sick. soooooo painful. unbearable. heavy. bloody. boring… sometimes it's snowing, so the sky is white, the ground is white, and then it's raining, the sky is grey, the snow melts away, the ground  is grey… the sun has left hamburg behind a heavy compact cloudy layer for a longtime now. the Deutscher Wetterdienst reports 22 hours of sunshine for hamburg in january 2013!!!!!! february may even trash that.  anyway. this month ends with two highlights: last monday we went in bremen to see slash featuring myles kennedy and the conspirators on stage – it was loud and awesome. tomorrow, we'll take off on 11:30 am to miami, florida. i'm going to absorb its light and sunshine.