Habanero (Chilisorte):

Basilikum

Eine andere Chilisorte:

Nach dem Dr. Oetker Backbuch:

Das Wetter draußen ist nicht so schön, aber dafür sehr abwechslungsreich. Folgendes Bild von heute ist nicht nachbearbeitet:

Well, as you might have noticed, I somehow gotta lot to do at the moment, even though it’s not only work. In between i’ve been on the polarstern again, but only in the harbour, in bremerhaven. actually just to reinstall the thingy we installed when we came from las palmas, just in a better way. (the hair is way shorter now, btw …)

the way back we got quite shitty weather, kind of the whole time since then, very varying weather conditions, some days with 30°C, some with below 20°C and rain …

And of course we went climbing – in the stone pit and inside in the climbing hall …

Beginning of July it was also my birthday, we had a nice barbecue next to the dormitory with 10-15 people, ages ranging from 1-30. The weather wasn’t perfect but afterwards there was even the usual Heidelbergs castle fireworks ‘Schlossbeleuchtung’ which I saw now the first time from a position where it’s actually visible. bridges far away or viewing points somewhere in the woods might not be as crowded as the philosophenweg, but hei, there might be a reason

Birthday presents: Obviously people fear that I might starve, or they just wanna get more cakes and stuff. and in the back there’s a backpack for the rope for climbing …

and yesterday a flatmate got married and our flat and a couple of friends were invited:

The first day, on May 14th we arrived at the R.V. Polarstern in the harbour of Las Palmas by Taxi in the morning. All the other scientists were watching us arriving, we just caring about our luggage and equipment and more or less ignoring everything – must have been a funny sight for them

This sign can be found at different places:

The first day we stayed in front of Gran Canaria because some tecnicians had to test some equipment and went back to Las Palmas in the evening on a small boat.

During the whole trip the crew worked on the ship, they painted one thing after the other.
I had some problems the first days working, since the horizon was moving, the screen wasn’t, it was kind of hard to concentrate on the data. Or fixing screws outside on the deck wasn’t easy either.
The waves there were around 4-4.5m high and quite regular. My favourite place to stay that days was in bed, sleeping always worked there, and outside was ok too, so the first day was more like 5 minutes of work, five minutes of calmly watching the horizon …

The color of the evening sun was always impressive …

One day we all were invited to watch the propellers through a small window. we had to crawl down a small service tunnel after which there was actually a bigger room were a member of the crew gave instructions and we had some minutes to watch.

On the deck where the labs were and the crew’s working places, some tourist stuff from home:

Somewhere western of Portugal we had a barbecue evening instead of normal dinner, a great variety of meat, salads and deserts as well as beaverages.

(work in progress, more text to come)