Some spots you may never find on your own. You'll only find them with locals you have made into friends. This lake is hidden away from the tourists. You need to drive fifteen minutes over a gravelroad

Being on the road normally means getting your stuff from one hostel to the other. But I decided to do it differently this time. At the moment I'm staying with a family and am helping out a bit. In return

This view captured my mind, because I wondered how the people living in those two houses get there. And why they would want to live there, high up on that hill in between all those trees with a view over

Why do I love Vancouver? Even if it isn't as old as european cities by far, the skyline integrates old and new buildings into a very interesting mix. This is just one example, I could have drawn many more.

Sitting at the beach and not having to worry about someone stealing your bike is a good way to relax. But on a crowded beach, you probably wouldn't have needed to have it locked to something right beside

Without words. all pictures and words done by the author

As I told in my last post I was sitting on the beach, waiting for the fireworks to start. When I first sat down there were a reasonable number of people around. But as it got later, the beach really filled

Every year Vancouver City organizes the celebration of light. Three different countries compete and I was lucky enough to see one of the shows. Sweden would be providing this evenings fireworks, and they

Another day walking around Vancouver downtown and passing through Cambietown. I already saw the posters all around Vancouver with the rainbow and pride written on them, but this crossing blew my mind.

Sometimes, not only while travelling, it is hard to get out of the bed, to start the day. I had quite the travel schedule before Vancouver and this one day I had a very slow start. so while watching the

I just love cities that have a beach directly in their city - just as Wellington in New Zealand, Vancouver has several of them. One is called Sunset Beach, what a fitting name. The first time I've been

While exploring Downtown Vancouver I discovered Yaletown. Just some streets with lots of cafés, bars and restaurants and a very chilly atmosphere. And just when I thought the city couldn't get any more

Wandering around downtown Vancouver you'll pretty soon find yourself in Gastown and this Gasclock is the first of just a few in the world, being build in 1977. It works with steam and every quarter of

I drew this on my first day in Vancouver. I had an overnight flight from Tokyo and was pretty jetlagged, but to early to check into my room. So I went for a walk just around the neighborhood and guess

In this last picture of Tokyo, Japan, I tried to catch the atmosphere in my hostel. But it and the right perspective eluded me. Kaisu Hostel in Akasaka, near Roppongi is a small hostel with a public bar

Imagine uncountable people running around me, glimpsing over my shoulder (being very not impressed by my drawing) and thousand clicks a minute on all the surrounding cameras. I wanted to do the opposite

Walking from one place to the other you always find unexpected things on your way. Just as the little statue of Gozilla, which is really little compared to the original. And when I was there, they were

So as I am just wandering around (no, actually I was looking for a venue, which would be playing Metal Macbeth!!!), I came upon this old/new Mix and just had to stop and sketch it. I hope you enjoy! all

Schrein allein Just five minutes after abandoning my place outside the fish market and having finished the drawing, I came across this situation and had to stop again. I know it is difficult to decipher,

Everyone who has been to Tokyo should have been to the famous Fish market - at least my guide book told me so. So one day I got up really early and ate my way through the delicatesses of the fish market.