Unusual baker's tool. A shovel is used to bury the baking molds and also to dig them up again / © Photo: Georg Berg

How Icelanders bake bread

In Iceland, you go to bake bread with a shovel and rubber boots. The oven needs no electricity. It bubbles and hisses and is right by the lake

Greenland shark meat cannot be eaten without special preparation. It contains trimethylamine oxide, which is broken down during digestion to trimethylamine, which can be hazardous to health / © Photo: Georg Berg

Hákarl. Shark snack from Iceland

Hákarl is considered a culinary test of courage on a trip to Iceland. Only processed the meat from the Greenland shark loses its toxic effect

For the Avignon theater festival, many window dummies are gradually painted with dramatic scenes / © Photo: Georg Berg

Avignon – all just a facade

If you walk attentively through the streets of Avignon, you will discover street art from different eras. From MifaMosa to the house Madonna

Les Halles market hall in Avignon. Patrick Blanc's plant wall has a sophisticated irrigation system and triggered a boom in vertical urban greening worldwide. 20 plants grow on one square meter / © Photo: Georg Berg

The market hall of Avignon

Les Halles, the market hall of Avignon with the vertical garden of botanist Patrick Blanc and delicacies from Provence.

Recent research on the design of the crowns, swords, and costumes in Royston Cave suggests that the carvings were made around the middle of the 13th century / © Photo: Georg Berg

Mysterious Royston Cave

Five theories still vie for interpretive authority over the Christian and pagan graffiti in a cave under the sidewalk in the village of Royston near Cambridge

The old town of Avignon with the Papal Palace / © Photo: Georg Berg

Avignon, the popes and a lot of theater

A visit to the Palais des Papes is worthwhile. The Unesco World Heritage Site offers a vivid look at the time as a papal residence, also thanks to modern museum technology

In the beer garden in Lana, you can taste the product range of the Pfefferlechner home brewery from tasting glasses / © Photo: Georg Berg

France and the desire for beer

The Auvergne – Rhône – Alpes region is home to a particularly large number of breweries. Why France is discovering a love of beer, tells a brewer from the Drôme Valley

Lützerath is occupied by climate activists. The previous owners have given up and sold their properties to RWE / © Photo: Georg Berg

The home and the climate

The small village of Lützerath rarely had more than 100 inhabitants. Thanks to climate activists, Lützi has become internationally known and a symbol. Several hundred places in the Rhenish lignite area have already fallen victim to the hunger for energy and the lignite excavators before

Today's perimeter path around Twickel Castle dates back to a design of 1890 by the German landscape architect Eduard Petzold / © Photo: Georg Berg

Hiking around Twickel Castle

In Twente, a visit to a park in English landscape style and walking through cultural landscape can be condensed into a perfect day trip.

Austernplatte mit Meeresfrüchten im Strandpavillion Le St Pierre Tarbouriech. Hinter der Lagune liegt die Stadt Sète / © Foto: Georg Berg

Mediterranean oysters

Oysters are a popular appetizer in France. They are hardly filling, low in fat and carbohydrates, but contain many vitamins and minerals.

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