Hello dear friends, Now it's here again, the time that is the hardest for me year after year. January and February are pretty gloomy here in Tauberfranken this year, as usual. The sun rarely makes an

Hello dear friends, Last weekend, when the weather was nice but also really cold, I felt like going for a little walk in Tauberbischofsheim at dusk. Tauberbischofsheim is located - as the name suggests

Hello dear friends, My last post on HIVE was about the moated castle of Mespelbrunn, the architectural landmark of the Spessart. Unfortunately, the castle was closed and so I could only take photos from

Hello dear friends, I hope you have all landed safely in 2025. I'm glad that the huge amount of bureaucracy that gets on my nerves every December seems to have been dealt with. Now I can devote myself

Hello dear friends, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas or just a wonderful time. Luckily, some of the stressful things have disappeared before Christmas. So nothing stood in the way of us having a few

Hello dear friends, A few months ago I told you here on Hive about the ‘Schnatterloch’ in Miltenberg. This evening I had to go back to Miltenberg to buy new water filters. Of course, I took the opportunity

Hello dear friends, As I reported in my last article, I was out and about in the district town of Karlstadt am Main last Saturday. During my tour of the town, I had a brief conversation with a sprightly

Hello dear friends, Yesterday the sun finally came out again. Of course, the sky was clear and it was bitterly cold. Nevertheless, I seized the opportunity and took a quick trip to Karlstadt am Main. Karlstadt

Hello dear friends, The last few days have been a dreary gray in gray here. The cold was already creeping through all the openings in our clothes. Light is in short supply. Darkness is the order of the

Hello dear friends, I'm back on HIVE. Over the past few days, I've been away in the recording studio finalising two important projects. As I'm still doing everything by hand - without all the new ‘little

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Hello dear friends, The funfair in Wertheim is now history again. And I'll repeat myself at this point, it's getting cold here. It really warms my heart when I remember my visit to the fair in the neighboring

Hello dear friends, It's the beginning of October and the year is clearly entering the home straight here in Tauberfranken. Just as the Tauber does in Wertheim after flowing 130 km through southern Germany.

Hello dear friends, It looks like it's going to be a very good year for porcini, too, after the gigantic summer of chanterelles. I've been to the forest three times in the last few days and have found

Hello dear friends, Summer is coming to an end and it was obvious that we should make the most of the last warmer days. So last weekend we went to the quarry pond once again. The water was already quite

Hello dear friends, I have fond memories of the time, especially in the early 90s, when I used to party on the dance floor to the latest techno tracks as a guest in various discotheques in the Frankfurt

Hello dear friends, on September 06, 2024 my uplifting trance single Andy Jay Powell - “Healing Stream” was released on Klubbstyle Records. The release is available on all common platforms. Of course also

Hello dear friends, Last weekend the Miltenberg Michaelmas Fair 2024 came to an end. We visited twice again this year. However, it was really extremely hot and stuffy on the fairground this year. The sweat

Hello dear friends, Circumstances beyond my control have meant that in the last few weeks we have also become a family with a dog. Unfortunately, the owner of this lovely dog was unable to look after the

Hello dear friends, On June 21, 2024, “Behind The Sun”, one of my classics from 1999, was re-released on Klubbstyle Records. For this I completely remastered the original version and also produced a new