A circular space hotel – you get dizzy just looking at it.
At this point, Oliver Graue, editor-in-chief Business Travel at fvw | TravelTalk, reports on his week in Business Travel.
Monday, July 19, 2021
Space instead of a luxury vacation on the beach: Hand on your heart, dear readers – would that really appeal to you? The British billionaire Branson recently reached space with his private spaceplane – Bezos plans to follow him tomorrow, Tuesday, along with three other people on board. A passenger paid a good 23 million euros for this flight. And that for just an hour.
No, quite honestly: As unique as the experience of weightlessness may be and the view of our planet earth from above is fascinating – such a “vacation” would not be for me. Too short, too expensive, too cramped, too hostile to the climate, oh, and in general. Even an all-inclusive week on the international space station ISS, which the US entrepreneur Dennis Tito booked 20 years ago (for “only” 17 million euros), could not be tempting.
I go on vacation because I want to relax, because I’m interested in great landscapes and cultural highlights, because I want to learn more about the history and the people of my holiday region – and because I want to eat deliciously. Astronaut food from a tube? Hmm Always only blue sky? Well Narrowest conditions in the space capsule? Nope. And the history of space? I don’t need it, I know from Star Wars.
And even Mars would have to be preheated vigorously before I would set off to the Red Planet. The maximum temperature up there is minus 17 degrees, the lowest temperature is minus 95 degrees. If you enjoy it, you can harden yourself beforehand in the freezer at home.
I’m waiting for the first aliens to land on earth. Perhaps you will bring a travel catalog with you – with the most beautiful hotel facilities on the asteroid B-612. Then maybe I would pay a little more. Of course, only if the local alcoholic drinks are included in the price.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Before I set out into the worlds of other solar systems, I first explore Germany and other short and long-term destinations. And that includes the Lüneburg Heath – that region south of Hamburg (roughly speaking).
The author Sven Bremer with his new travel guide “Lüneburg & Lüneburger Heide” really whets your appetite for this northern German area (published by Michael-Müller-Verlag, 288 pages, 18.90 euros). Bremer defines the region, which is difficult to define anyway, rather generously: In addition to the city of Lüneburg and the official Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve, he presents the areas between Celle and Wolfsburg as well as those directly south of Hamburg and the Wendland around the beautiful Elbe town Hitzacker.
All of this happens in the tried and tested Michael Müller Verlag tradition: After a brief overview with the most important facts about the respective region, individual villages are presented – along with many practical tips and hiking recommendations. Again and again he sprinkles interesting facts about the background, from the Heidschnucken as a special breed of sheep to the Heide “national” hero Hermann Löns to the nuclear dispute over Gorleben in Wendland.
An all-round successful declaration of love to a fascinating region!
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