The Silk Road in Tajikistan / © Photo: Georg Berg

Pamir stage of the Silk Road

Silk gave it its name. Many things were traded on the Silk Road. The Chinese offered silk to the Kyrgyz in exchange for good horses.

In the jungle of Bougainville still lie the wreckage of the Mitsubishi G4M aircraft in which General Yamamoto Isoroto was shot down on April 18, 1942 / © Photo: Georg Berg

Airplane wreckage deep in the jungle

In the jungle of the Pacific island of Bougainville lies the wreckage of the plane of the Japanese General Yamamoto, who was responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor

Saffron harvest in Switzerland / © Photo: Georg Berg

Saffron, spice and remedy

Saffron gives an incomparable aroma. It would be too bad and too expensive to use saffron only as a coloring agent. About the cultivation in Valais and Morocco.

Reading culinary books in the city library / © Photo: Georg Berg

Cookbooks with added value

About cookbooks that open up whole new worlds, tell of the cuisines of distant countries, or provide entertaining knowledge about our foods

Basel City Hall / © Photo: Georg Berg

Basel on the Rhine

The Swiss border and trading city of Basel is home to Switzerland’s oldest university, 46 museums and has served as a refuge for many a maverick thinker

Dessert

Kunst & Kochwerk Villa Erkens, Grevenbroich

Seit Anfang 2019 findet das Format Kunst & Kochwerk von Angela Berg in einem weiteren Museum statt. Begleitend zu Wechselausstellungen des Museums der Niederrheinischen Seele – Villa Erckens nehmen die Gäste nach einer Führung durch die Ausstellung an den kleinen Bistro-Tischen im Erdgeschoss des Museums Platz und kosten ein Überraschung-Menü korrespondierend zur Kunst: 2019 zur Ausstellung “Helmut Schmidt – Karikaturen” / Unter Wölfen / Magret Schoten-Richter Materie und Objekte. Di. … [mehr]

Children of Panasia Island love the rocks of a cave as a natural diving tower / © Photo: Georg Berg

Meeting in Papua New Guinea

The island nation of Papua New Guinea is considered the country with the greatest cultural diversity in the world. About Polynesian deep-sea sailors and traces of cannibalism

In Sierra Leone herrschen Optimismus und Lebensfreude / © Foto: Georg Berg

Bilder-Vortrag Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone ist für uns ein unbekanntes Reiseland. Ein bildreicher und farbenfroher Reisebericht, der in Grevenbroich beginnt

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