Author: Peter Hilden

…and other 5 reasons why I never found time to visit Buckingham Palace in London.

…and today 5 reasons why I never found time to visit Buckingham Palace in London. All photos Hackney/London East.

…and again pictures from the Columbia Road flower market in London.

I have been to London several times. I haven’t seen Buckingham Palace yet – instead I preferred to visit the Columbia Road flower market on Sundays.

The market is in operation every Sunday from 8 am to 3 pm. Traders arrive from 4 am to set up their stalls. A wide range of plants, bedding plants, shrubs, bulbs and freshly cut flowers is available at competitive prices. Many of the traders are the second or third generation of their family to sell at the market.

…and again about very special travelers: the World Turbo Youth. Besides the music, the exchange among each other is an existential part of the meetings. Gladly with a beer in hand. I met travelers from all over the world, even from Texas, Australia and Indonesia.

…and again about very special travelers. Today about the very special music – the reason for the Turbojugend sailors to visit Hamburg in late summers.

For me, this concert by the group “Hot for Death Punk” was a real challenge. One hand for the camera, the other for the crowd surfers while standing as stable as possible in the crowd. I didn’t notice when my glasses were knocked off my face. Later, after the concert and with a new pair of glasses from the drugstore, I found them again, undamaged. This concert was a blast!

and again about very special travelers. A short story in 8 pictures.

What I’ve learned: You should always think very, very carefully in which company you go to sleep – and in which ones you don’t.

And I swear: no people, animals or objects were harmed in this series!

And again about special travelers.

A fixed item on the program at the World Turbo Youth Days is the mini golf tournament on Fridays. Called: Minigolfwar.

And this time about special travelers.

Once a year, Turbojugends from all over the world meet in St.Pauli, Hamburg, Germany to celebrate Turbonegro themselves as well as punk rock in general. This three-day event is called Welt-Turbojugend-Tage (“World Turbojugend Days”) with concerts and meetings in different clubs. In recent years, the Punk Rock Bowling festival in Las Vegas has served as meeting point for Turbojugend chapters Worldwide, too.

For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbojugend

And about Hanoi. Night market.