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One of the things I’m often asked is "How on earth did you get started with all this?”

For as long as I can remember, I've loved to both travel and share my passions, peeves, and points of view with others around me. For the last 5 years I have had the privilege of a job which brings me to interesting corners of the world.

Businessandbackpack is a new project that aims to provide a single home for all the impressions from my travels, both work-related and personal. Explore my site, and enjoy.

La Bombonera

On Tuesday I went back to Boca, a quarter in the South of Buenos Aires (I was there last weekend to admire the beautiful colorful houses of the former dock workers - quite touristic but pretty, will try to write a short post about it in the coming days). But this time I was not drawn by the brightly colored homes but rather wanted to visit the home of Boca Juniors, one of the most iconic football clubs in Argentina. Their stadium is called "La Bombonera" because it is shaped

Not quite a marathon/ Nicht ganz ein Marathon

On Sunday I went back to Tigre - if you read the previous entries, you know that I went there to row on Wednesday and could not fail to notice posters around town advertising the “Tigre Maraton”. Marathons are not quite my distance but it turned out that 42km were not actually on offer but the two distances to chose from were 5 and 10km. So of course I picked the latter, registered online and tried unsuccessfully multiple times to pay the entry fee by card and then equally un

Rudern in Buenos Aires/ Rowing in Buenos Aires

Nachdem ich diese Jahr schon in Venedig, London, Oslo und Bern gerudert bin konnte ich mit Tigre/ Buenos Aires meiner Ruderweltkarte einen weiteren Ort hinzufügen. Dank einem guten Freund aus München wusste ich vom deutschen Ruderverein Teutonia in Buenos Aires. Ein paar Mail- und WhatsApp-Wechsel später war dann ausgemacht dass ich am Mittwoch nach dem Spanischkurs mit dem Zug raus nach Tigre fahre bzw nach Beccar (ein paar Stationen vor Tigre) wo mich Alejandro der Captain

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