3. September 2018: Heute morgen ging für Pascal nach dem Zusammenfluss von der Krimmler Ache und der Salzach die Suche weiter nach der Stelle wo er das erste Mal sein SUP zu Wasser lassen konnte. Doch vorher gab es noch an der Salzach für Pascal eine sehr wichtige Begegnung mit [...]
2. September 2018: Die Salzach – Ursprung auf 2.300 Meter und nach 225 Kilometer mündet die Salzach in den Inn. Das sind die Zahlen. Doch ein Fluss hat viel mehr zu bieten als nur Zahlen. Die Salzach erleben, fühlen wie es der Salzach geht und den Menschen an der Salzach [...]
On his journey Pascal always goes back to thinking about the life of Herta Müller who grew up in Romania and was persecuted by the Securitate. It makes his own physical suffering on the journey more bearable. http://www.hoerbuch-hamburg.de/hoerbuecher/mueller-immer-derselbe-schnee-und-immer-derselbe-onkel-2117/
A good book on the history of the Sinti and Roma, which can help build a better understanding of the often supressed people group. http://www.chbeck.de/Fings-Sinti-Roma/productview.aspx?product=16567028
07/09/2017. Imagine a large island in the middle of the Danube. It's one of the most extensive across the whole course. There aren't any people on the many islands. Finally a place that is only for animals and plants. It is an area that is constantly flooded. And as [...]
06/09/2017. She grows up in a small German village in the Banat, in the middle of remote hill country in Romania. In her loneliness she begins to speak to the plants, and they become her best friends. Later on she moves to the city, wanting to learn Romanian, speak [...]
05/09/2017. Right from the earliest stages of their evolution people have been drawn to water. They settled at rivers, lakes, and seas. The water provided them with something to drink, and to eat; it watered their livestock, enabled farming, and ground grain. It is the ultimate lifeline, and it's [...]
04/09/2017. If we think about Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and the rest of the Balkans, regions that Pascal has been paddling through for weeks, then you can't avoid one particular topic, the treatment of the Sinti and Roma. Headlines on the topic are generally thought-provoking or sad. And somehow we [...]
03/09/2017. 500 years. No other European country was ruled for so long by the Ottomans as Bulgaria. Until 1878 the half-moon flag flew on the countries roofs. For a long time Bulgaria was considered unexplored by the Western Europeans, foreign, even, oriental, the very edge of the civilised world [...]
02/09/2017. Pascal heard of him through an ARTE documentary that Pascal watched a few months ago. He is a famous Romanian poet and writer who apparently built a cultural centre and guesthouse on the Danube in Cetate, and lives there today. He was one of Romanian literature's great hopes, [...]
