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Manfred is creator of ThisFabTrek.com, travel photography, a travel blog and a photography blog (a journey since 2004).

I try to understand, report and photograph, enjoy, live and inhale different conceptions of life (all that TV [and the web] cannot give). I reject jealousy, animosity, bigotry. Be free!

Manfred in the desert of the Western Sahara

The mind, when pondering at night had always asked those questions. What am I doing in corporate wonderland of bank, university, office or church? Who is the other animal asleep deep inside, the thinker, punk, creative, or Indian, vagabond and healer, maybe artist, writer, photographer, traveler, globetrotter? Oh God, dare you to think. When seeing the lies, gambles and manipulations I follow the old dream and set out for the real journey, the one that is call life lived.

During years on the road that I have taken the turns as they came along I have realized one thing: Only such a small part of the planet can be explored and such a vast land and sea mass will always remain unknown, to me; many swamps, jungles, deserts and oceans will never be travelled. But then I am father of twin boys, Daniel and David, my most important, and I show them some of the wonders that are out there. ThisFabTrek, is ongoing. Photography and Journey, Stories from the Road and Life around the World, Love and Peace.

Current vehicle.

G20, Gladiator.

Chevrolet Gladiator G20, Christina in Southern California.
Current Journey, Americas.

Every truck needs a lady. The G20, the vehicle that came to me for the Americas adventures.

6 wheeled Land Rover.

Land Rover Defender 6x6
Link to Foley

The vehicle of the Africa adventures, a Foley 6-Wheeled Land Rover Defender.

Before, the MB307.

Manfred and MB307
Journey, Middle East.

The vehicle of the Middle-East and North-Cape Journies. See all vehicles.

Daniel and David with nanny Aisha, the best we ever had, black African Woman carrying white twin babies, in Bamako, Mali.

Travel Blog

contains Festival/Art photography.

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it, to tell the tale." Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel García Márquez.

"They never taught wandering in any school I attended. ... they never taught the art of writing a book, either. It's all so mysterious."
"Wandering is an art in itself. Wandering and writing don't mix"
"Writing demands commitment and if one thing your wanderer is allergic to is that very quality of commitment, for once one is committed he runs that very risk of failure ..." Wanderer - Sterling Hayden.

"Photography enables you to grasp a place first time round. ... Photography is a means of exploration, it's a vital part of travel, almost as essential as a car or a plane. " - Wim Wenders.

"The worst prejudice we acquire during our youth is the idea that life is serious. Children have the right instincts: they know that life is not serious, and treat it as a game..." , Egon Friedell.

"How far you gonna go. Before you lose your way back home" - Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World, Achtung Baby, U2.

"If you want to be a hero well just follow me." - Working Class Hero, John Lennon.

"When I think of all the things I have done, I know that it's only just begun." - I love you, Lou Reed.

"One does not escape the Sahara - the Sahara let's you go or not" - Touareg.

"Planet earth is blue and there`s nothing I can do" - This is Ground Control to Major Tom, David Bowie.

"Glory for the crazy people/in this stupid world" - Ahmed Fouad Negm.

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Home, what home?

Map of Europe.

Europe Travel Photography.

Florence cathedral, deatil front.
Italy, spent 3 months.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Scotland, spent 1.5 months.
Cliffs of moher, Ireland.
Ireland, spent 2 weeks.
Orthodox country church, Dreptu Romania Bistrita, wooden with guilded domes.
Romania, spent 1 week.
Midnight sun Norway.
Scandinavia-Finland, spent 1 months.
Salamis.
Cyprus, spent 2 weeks.
Beach in Rhodes.
Greece, spent 1 months.
Twins in Torun.
Poland, spent 1 months.
On pebbles in Latvia.
Baltics, spent 2 weeks.
Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg.
Russia, spent 1 week.
St. Remy boys.
France, spent 3 months.

Added a few more European countries, 2009 and 2010.

  • Scandinavia Finland - Denmark, Sweden and Norway, the "Scandis" and Finland.
  • Russia - still so unknown.
  • Baltics - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia all so different.
  • Poland - Love of mine.
  • Cyprus - Scandalous, divided in Europe.
  • Turkey - Istanbul, Black Sea coast.
  • Greece - Blue, blue. The Mythos of mythos.
  • Bulgaria - Belgrade to Sofia, Iron Gate.
  • Romania - Danube delta, Carpathians. Was Ceauşescu the worst of them?
  • Ukraine - L'viv is spectacular, gruesome history.
  • Hungary - This is the start of the India journey.

Time for another European adventure. May, July 2007.

  • Italy - Florence, Bologna, Rome, Perugia, Napoli, Palermo. And a lot more. Journey with 3 month old twins.

Being European .... July 2004 to Feb 2005.

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