Category Archives: Summer

The Beguinage Movement in Western Europe: Berlinsights Visit April 2025


Traveling to visit the Beguines in the 22st century meant to learn about the spirit of faith without being confessionally reilgious or bound to a specific church in Europe.

Looking back at times between the13th–16th centuries, we learnt that Beguinage members lived in partly monastic communities, yet without formal religious vows “as long as they lived as Beguines” according to an early Rule of Life. They understood themselves as part of a larger spiritual revival movement of the 13th century, yet most importantly, they were able to leave at any time. Voluntary poverty, care of the poor and sick, and religious devotion were meant to be the glue of their spiritual belief.  Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beguines_and_Beghards

 

Lahore August 2022

Lahore is Pakistan’s second largest city, afterKarachi.

It is great fun commuting by auto-Rikshaw taxis (so-called ‚ChingChi‘, named after Chinese manufacturer Qingqi). Seated in rapid 3-seaters, I have not yet seen major accidents here that happen between cars, trucks and a motorized Rickshaw that replaced the earlier pulled Rickshaw. Continue reading

Women’s UEFA Cup Finals 2022

Here in Lahore, Pakistan, rarely anybody notices that women in Europe and all over the world play football. It is a pity that games here are mainly followed by the news.

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Germany’s recent assault on women in European football has its roots, see https://www.dw.com/en/euro-2022-whats-holding-women-coaches-back/a-62371045

For Europe as such, not much better, see https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/62238520 – wishing great summer days in and around Berlin with #berlinsights

Lahore Berlin July 2022

Downtown market place along Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan

Lahore, not Berlin these days, tells the story of its Walled City around the Fort of Moghul times. Today, this small downtown place hosts some 200 000 inhabitants of
a total of 12 million living in Lahore.

Tourists are of course rare in this heat of 35 – 44 C in July 2022.
The donkey is no longer there since Holy Ramadan has its sacrifices …

BER is IT


https://www.berlin-airport.de/de/presse/presseinformationen/mitteilungen-archiv/2021/2021-07-02-verkehrsbericht/index.php?bezuggrd=CHP&utm_source=cp-vollversion Have a walk along the Humboldt Forum area near U5 opening shortly (July 09, 2021 = coming SOON).

In the meantime, scroll around ‘Kreuzkölln’ area near Hermannplatz: Hasenheide park allows you to visit ‘Turnvater Jahn’ who is known to having conducted hate speech in his awkward sportivities see https://facettenneukoelln.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/buecherverbrennung-tempelhofer_feld-schundliteratur-museum_neukoelln/#more-112242