Take a break! On the way to the Var department in southern France, we drove to the beautifully situated town of Percy in search of a lunch stop and were served a formule of the finest in the only restaurant in town / © Photo: Georg Berg

Menu for lunch break

A perfect stop in France for anyone on their way south. Café de la Page serves very good food with fresh and local products

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Alpabtrieb in Hittisau. The youth fetches the cattle from the alp and the most beautiful cow is decorated. The bus shelter in this photo doesn't get a beauty prize - but in the neighboring community of Krumbach there are bus stops with world-class architecture! / © Photo: Georg Berg

Bus stops and architecture

In the Bregenzerwald there is top architecture in unexpected places. 7 bus shelters bring together culture, economy and architecture of the Vorarlberg region. Bus shelters in cosmopolitan design.

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At the liquefied gas loading point in northern Australia, the deep-sea tankers can be filled directly / © Photo: Georg Berg

War and energy

Fossil fuels should not be promoted as sustainable and natural gas should not be obtained via pipelines. Independence from despots would be another goal.

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Redemption on the wedding day / © Photo: Georg Berg

Wedding

Where is the shoe pinching? Hardly any celebration is as enriched with rituals and gestures as a wedding ceremony. A guest at a Bulgarian wedding.

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War - always a theme at documenta. Seating modules in stain camouflage are assembled into a full-size tank twice a week in a performance / © Photo: Georg Berg

The tank Polemos

At documenta 2017, Andreas Angelidakis’ installation was a game. Tanks mutated into seating modules. The return to diplomacy is the greatest wish.

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The busy entrance to Fortnum & Mason department store on Piccadilly Street in London / © Photo: Georg Berg

Fortnum & Mason – Department store in London

Tom Parker Bowles writes about the legendary Fortnum and Mason department store. Illustrations from the historic catalogs convey a British attitude to life

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Reinhart Collection, founded by Oskar Reinhart in Winterthur, Switzerland / © Photo: Georg Berg

Oskar Reinhart Collection in Winterthur

Picnic with Picasso – How a small museum in Switzerland charmingly encourages its visitors to linger with a creative and Corona-worthy idea

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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

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Bonsai master and garden owner Toshio Ohsugi in portrait with a 500-year-old care case. According to records, the tree was taken from a rock in the mountains around 1920. Its roots had driven a fissure into the rock / © Photo: Georg Berg

Typical Japan – Professions and Vocation

In Shizuoka Prefecture, we met people who have dedicated their entire lives to a profession and have no problems with work-life balance

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Hands as stencils for white paint that has been sprayed on by mouth and Reckitt's Blue, a detergent additive made from ultramarine and baking soda that used to be added to laundry detergents in Australia / © Photo: Georg Berg

Indigenous People Day

There are about 5,000 different cultures that are threatened by the destruction of their habitat, climate change and the disregard for their rights

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Parthenon of Books, by Argentine artist Marta Minujin at documenta 14 in Kassel. Every day the construction, which in its dimensions is a replica of the temple on the Acropolis, became more massive and filled with more books. In the background, the installation "Expiration Movement" smokes in the Zwehrenturm / © Photo: Georg Berg

View to Kassel for documenta14

Every five years, Kassel is dedicated to contemporary art. Installations, performances and lectures take place at a wide variety of venues

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Street in Kenema with diamond dealer stores from Sierra Leone / © Photo: Georg Berg

Diamond Rush in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, Pastor Emmanuel Momoh found a 706 carat diamond in the muddy broth of the Woyie River. He shares the proceeds with his country

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