Links

Some Stages of my Life

→ Gelsenkirchen: The city of my birth, which has a lot more to offer than industry and football - even though it is the home of FC Schalke 04 and one of the cities of 2006's FIFA World Championship.

→ Locom: A logistics consulting company where I did an internship in the beginning of 2005.

→ Aschaffenburg: The “Bavarian Nice”, my new home since January 2006.

→ DPD: A europe-wide parcel network and the company I work for since January 2006.

Buses, Trains and Trams

Links to lots of public transport companies can be found on the photo index pages for every country. Of course not all of the pages are available in English.

→ Deutsche Bahn Travel Planner: This page contains every train timetable in Germany and most other European states. Additionally, most of the public transport timetables in Germany (buses, trams, undergrounds) are included.

→ TGVweb: Fan page concerning the French high speed train TGV. Although it hasn't been updated for a long time, a visit is highly recommended. There are even TGV models available to build on your own.

→ Trainspotting Bükkes (partially German): This page contains various info about railways, especially the procedures at border crossings (different electricity systems, rolling stock in use etc.).

→ European Railway Server: A collection of various info and lots of photos concerning the European railways.

→ UrbanRail.net: An encyclopedia of the world's underground (metro/ subway) networks, partially with maps, photos of vehicles, info about history and technology etc.

→ stellwerke.de: A page about German signalboxes.

→ BAHN: A software to simulate the operation of railway networks, for which I designed some network files, too.

→ The Train: Freeware extensions for MS Train Simulator.

→ Zusi: A freeware rail simulator.

Music

→ Alizée: Home page of the French singer who produces a kind of nice “bubblegum pop”. On this page you can find the lyrics (which are - in the French version - full of plays on words), videos and updated info.

→ Lucy Woodward: This American singer isn't yet very well-known in Europe. She sings “rocky pop” that can easily get stuck in your head. On her website you can listen to her first album.

→ Pet Shop Boys: This English band has been successful for over 20 years with electro pop songs. Their unconventionally designed home page offers an area where listeners can comment on Pet Shop Boys songs.

→ P!nk: The American singer became internationally famous with “Lady Marmalade” and “Get the party started”. But of course she's got a lot more to offer: on her page you can find lyrics, photos and a big fan area.

→ Roxette: Since the release of their song “Joyride” everybody knows this Swedish band that plays some kind of “poppy rock” or “rocky pop” music.

→ Blood Brothers: Fan page concerning one of my favourite musicals that runs as a permanent production in the → Phoenix Theatre in London's West End.

Languages

→ travlang.com: A collection of different tools for learning languages, e.g. on-line dictionaries and language guides, the latter often with sample sentences for listening.

→ Verbix: An automatic verb conjugator available both on-line and off-line. The software knows more extraordinary languages like Breton, too.

→ Tongue Twisters: Tongue twisters and long words in over 100 languages from Acholi to Zulu.

→ Language Identifier: Type a text in (nearly) whatever language and this tool will recognize it.