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Heike Blümner

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Why am I driving a Jeep in Bordeaux near the river La Gironde? It has to do with wine. I didn’t drink any before getting into this car...but surely after

A landing strip in Phaplu, Nepal, not for the faint of heart. Here I followed the epic lifestory of a German/ Mongolian couple, who revived the traditional craft of weaving in Kathmandu and looked after the former house of Sir Edmund Hillary.

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In 1989 the young architects John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin teamed up for their first and only collaboration in Mallorca. The Neuendorf House has become one of the most famous architectural landmarks on the island. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary I met it’s creators on location.

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Coming up next:
Article in the NYT about Kunsthandel Inez Stodel, Amsterdam. Article in ICON about the Bukhara Biennal/ Uzbekistan. Article about artist Giuseppe Ducrot and another one about Maria Grazia Chiuri for Neptune Papers and trips planned to Portugal and Morocco.

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Can the peak of luxury tourism support meaningful social and ecological change? I traveled along the East Coast of Africa and visited some serious marine conservation projects.

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I followed the traces of John Steinbeck’s consequential essay “Positano” from 1953 to find out what changed and what didn’t

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How to cure a hangover, where to eat duck and how to differentiate different types of Chinese cuisine: A tour with twelve chefs – some of them Michelin starred – through a Hongkong streetfood market.

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