born	in lisbon, portugal	6 - 6 - 66
moved	to wittmund, germany	1968
moved	to and grew up in troisdorf, germany	1969
moved	to and studied in wilhelmshaven, germany	1990
lived	a few months in belize city, belize	9/92 - 2/93
moved	to and ran own business in oldenburg, germany	1994
moved	to dunedin, new zealand	1997
moved	to edinburgh, scotland	2001
moved	to st. catharines, ontario, canada	2002

 
 

trained	to become a travel agent
studied	economics, tourism and marketing
had	my own travel agencies 'travelphone' and 'greenline' with my business partner
taught	part time tourism geography at the university for applied sciences, wilhelmshaven
enrolled	for my ph.d. and taught at the department of tourism of the university of otago
was a	lecturer at the school of marketing & tourism with napier university
currently	assistant professor at the department of recreation & leisure studies with brock university

 

micha's favourites
 

my favourite colour	yellow combined with light grey, green
my favourite food	geesh - almost everything: italian, mexican, chinese, german etc.
my favourite dish	grühnkohl and pinkel, rheinischer sauerbraten, sweet & sour chicken
my favourite drink	white wine (not too sweet), baileys, sherry (medium), piña colada
my favourite beer	früh kölsch
my favourite music	depends very much on my mood: 60's - 90's, classic, jazz
my favourite singer	billy joel, cat stevens, bruce springsteen, madonna, too many actually
my favourite band	the carpenters *wink*, pat metheny group, st. germain, etc.
my favourite movie	i have seen lots of good movies, but my all time favourite is 'cry freedom '
my favourite cartoon	the simpsons, pink panther, die maus, calvin & hobbes
my favourite book	any atlas, lord of the rings (read that 17 years ago!), the physician, smilla's feelings for snow
my favourite author	stefan zweig, noah gordon, ken follett
my favourite actress	meg ryan, calista flockhart
my favourite actor	brad pitt *blush*, matt damon, jürgen prochnow, till schweiger, ben affleck
my favourite museum	museum of modern art (nyc), musee national picasso (paris)
my favourite country	new zealand, sweden, ireland, guatemala, canada, madagascar
my favourite city	new york city, london, sydney, san francisco, melbourne, quebéc, vancouver
my favourite building	sydney opera house, guggenheim museum, cologne cathedral
my favourite beach	a nice secluded beach close to lívingston, guatemala and sandfly bay, new zealand
my favourite airline	american airlines, air new zealand, cathay pacific
my favourite car	vw vanagan, jaguar e-type
my favourite tree	palm tree, cabbage tree, fern tree
my favourite animal	tiger (my black cat)
my favourite national park	np wadden sea of lower saxony, yellowstone np, fiordland np
my favourite sport	scuba diving, skiing, tramping, rollerblading (should do more of all...*sigh*)
my favourite tradition	bosseln in east frisia
my favourite male name	jan, jörn, aaron, gordian, aidyn, nathan
my favourite female name	nadine, sarah
my favourite quote	yesterday is ashes, tomorrow is wood, so the indians say, only today the fire burns brightly (cree, north american indians)
	it was one of those days so clear, so silent, so still, you almost feel the earth itself has stopped in astonishment about its own beauty (katherine mansfield, 1888 - 1923, new zealand)
my favourite fragrance	hugo boss, ck one, ck eternity, joop nightflight
my favourite computer game	dune 2000, transport tycoon

anything else you want to know or are you already bored enough? *evil grin*