Marteinn Haraldsson founded the microbrewery Segull 67 in Siglufjördur in 2015 as a career changer / © Photo: Georg Berg

Iceland and the beer

Every year on March 1, Icelanders celebrate Bjórdagurinn. This day of beer commemorates the legalization of beer in 1989 after 75 years of prohibition.

Angel with beer crate in front of the Pope. A living statue strides through the Roman Gate in front of Cologne Cathedral with a beer crate, which it will use as a pedestal. In the background Pope Benedict VI waves in survival size from a poster / © Photo: Georg Berg

Cheating during Lent

Not angels, but monks once sent beer to the Pope in Rome. His blessing for a fasting beer was quickly granted, because it tasted so awful after the long journey that he found it worthy of a fasting drink and granted the monks 5 liters per day. Here now more cheating of the clergy against their own fasting laws.

Tail fin of a humpback whale. Numerous boats depart from Húsavík (Iceland) for whale watching. The highlight is the tail fin when the large mammals dive / © Photo: Georg Berg

Experience whales in Iceland

There is no whaling in Iceland anymore. Instead, whale watching is booming. The Whale Museum in Húsavík participates in the exploration of the gentle giants

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

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

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

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