Here's what I saw in February and March ...

 

 

Happy April!

 

KIKI

 

 

 

 

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Tây Ninh, Vietnam

 

Angkor, Cambodia

 

Killing Fields, Cambodia

 

Tokyo, Japan

 

Bagan, Myanmar

 

Kiev, Ukraine

 

Milford Sound, New Zealand

 

Las Vegas, USA

 

Central Kyrgyzstan

 

North Shore, New Zealand

 

Inle Lake, Myanmar

 

Angkor, Cambodia

 

Berlin, Germany

 

Hong Kong

 

Saigon, Vietnam

 

North Island, New Zealand

 

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

Tonga

 

Tasma, Kyrgyzstan

 

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

 

Nevada, USA

 

Jeti Oguz, Kyrgyzstan

 

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

 

Kiev, Ukraine

 

Tonga

 

Mount Cook, New Zealand

 

Tasma, Kyrgyzstan

 

Southern Vietnam

 

Mandalay, Myanmar

 

Lake Dunstan, New Zealand

 

Angkor, Cambodia

 

Hong Kong

 

Kiev, Ukraine

 

Yangon, Myanmar

 

Rural Myanmar

 

Hoi An, Vietnam

 

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

Inle Lake, Myanmar

 

Mandalay, Myanmar

 

Rural Myanmar

 

Inle Lake, Myanmar

 

Istanbul, Turkey

 

Ticino, Switzerland

 

Rural Myanmar

 

North Island, New Zealand

 

Shanghai, China

 

Inle Lake, Myanmar

 

Mandalay region, Myanmar

 

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At the beginning of October I was participating a wine harvest in the Mosel/Saar region, a very beautiful, lush and picturesque part of Germany in between the rivers Mosel and Saar, close to the Luxemburg and french border. We were invited by vintners Matz and Jonas Hild to help pick their special Elbling grapes, the most famous of a collection of home made wines. We spent a whole day on their vineyards and followed the first steps of their production line. It's a small over 100 years old family run business and they are shipping their bottles around the world. A New York restaurant owner calls the Elbling wine, this special grape of the southern wine Mosel, "Mineral Water from Heaven", and I can only agree with that ;) It's been a very interesting weekend. Check out the photos ...

 

 

The grapes get all hand picked in the vineyards.

 

When the mini tractor stops working due to a bursted oil hose you have to go carry with classic baskets ;)

 

Jonas and Matz Hild with one of the workers

 

You can of course try and convince yourself in the field :)

 

And even try some wine during a break.

 

We filled six of those tubs this day.

 

Perfect grapes

 

It's much easier with the tractor.

 

Jonas Hild in the vineyard

 

The crew

 

The harvest goes onto the scale.

 

We collected 2,5 tones of grapes this day. And the relatives liked it.

 

The grapes will be pre-hackeled and go into the winepress next to it.

 

From there the fresh juice goes straight into the wine cellar to be further processed.

 

A really old tank from inside

 

Work done

 

That's it for now. I of course got a big box of wine shipped to Berlin and I'm eager to try the bottles that we picked.

 

Check out their website or facebook page and make sure to try a bottle of Elbling one day, it's worth it!

 

See you later

 

KIKI

 

 

 

Full-on ...

 

 

See you next year :)

 

KIKI