• Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 52 2023 - Early morning light

    Between the years

    Those special days between Christmas and New Year… you look back and at the same time wonder what might come, hoping everything will be getting better.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 51 2023 - Silhouette of Basel cathedral

    Winter solstice week

    Winter solstice at last! In contrast to the summer solstice, this dark time of year fills me deep down with anticipation for longer and brighter days.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 50 2023 - Trees and hedges

    The diversity of December days

    I have to admit, I didn’t start the new week very enthusiastically, which had begun gray and dark. I had the feeling that all days consisted of nothing but night.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 49 2023 | Snow covered Black Forest hills

    Rules of Life

    This week I involuntarily received a refresher course on how life works and that it doesn’t always go the way you want it to. But what you can do is make the best of it.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 48 2023 | Hiking symbol on winterly trees

    Déjà vu – yet different

    After I thought I had overcome my cold, the cold started all over again at the beginning of the week and shaped the rest of my daily routine.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 47 2023 | Roche Towers in shortly after sunset

    November Days

    I always have an ambivalent relationship with the cold season. Some years I hate it, the cold and especially the darkness. The gray, dreary days and endless nights. Other years, however, I don’t mind it at all.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 46 2023 | Basel Cathedral and Houses on the Rhine

    From the big city to my small bedroom

    How quickly everything can change. After starting in New York on Monday, the week came to an end for me in my bed in Basel.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 45 2023 | Jacqueline Onassis Reservoir

    A week to myself

    While the weather in Basel is rainy and windy, I’m enjoying another sunny week in New York before my return journey.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 44 2023 | Hudson Estuary

    The city that never gets boring

    Due to the visit of our friends from Germany, I have explored many places this week that are normally on the tourist agenda. Including places I didn’t know yet. I realized once again how diverse New York City is.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 43 2023 | Midtown at sunset

    Changing Pages

    Here it is – a new breeze in my life. From rainy Basel to sunny and warm New York. Leaving is at the same time a coming home and always feels so good to change perspective.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 42 2023 | A lonely tree in the fog

    Enriching ordinary days

    Finally a more versatile week in terms of weather and a week that feels more like October than the previous ones. Also, a week of preparation and a week in which I realized how beneficial little escapes from the daily grind can be.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 41 2023 | Messeplatz through a fence

    Caught up in everyday life

    Another unexciting week that has come and gone without leaving much of a trace. With everything else that’s going on in the world right now, I have to admit that it’s not the worst thing if everything is still the same at the end of the week as it was at the beginning.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 40 2023 | View on Mount Loner

    An Alpine Monday escape

    After two jam-packed weeks with many tasks that I could mark as done (and more tasks that were added), I started this week with a hike in the Bernese Oberland.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 37 2023 | Meadow by Alexandra Kehayoglou

    About bringing order into chaos

    Colors, shapes and structures…the components that make up our environment. Be it in nature or made by humans. This week’s photos of things that inspired me deal with this topic in architecture and nature.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 36 2023 | Sunflowers on a sunny day

    Endless Summer

    Basel welcomed me after my return from the mountains with another hot summer week. Still packed with impressions of last week’s hiking tour and a small cold, I started into rather sluggish days.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Lake Toma

    Snow in August

    It’s an open secret that life gets interesting whenever you step out of your comfort zone. That’s what I did this week, going on a 6-day hike that brought an incredibly diverse August to an end and a fresh September to begin.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 34 2023 | People drifting down the river Rhine on a hot summer evening

    August Heat

    Completely in the sign of the heat, this week was characterized by a rather sluggish course. The fan was my constant companion and I was actually never surrounded by temperatures below 30°C/86°F. Except while swimming in the Rhine.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 33 2023 | Flight over the Atlantic

    A very warm welcome

    A relaxed flight back to Switzerland, which welcomes me with a heat wave. Due to this, a week of slightly sluggish but satisfied days, in which I can fully absorb the heat of summer again.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 31 2023

    The power of goodbye

    A week completely in the sign of the farewell. First the goodbye to the beach life at the beginning of the week and then the experience of the last days in New York, before the return trip to Basel.

  • Matthias Maier | Blog | Week 31 2023

    Island Life

    An entire week on Fire Island. Days that glide along carefree, like the ocean waves on the beach. And the rest of the world so far away. Switching off once more before the end of what could have stayed like this for a while longer.

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