: About Me

I'm Malu, short for Marie-Luise. I'm German and I live in Germany.

I studied English and Russian at uni in Heidelberg and have taught English for nearly 40 years at a secondary grammar school. I taught Russian there, too, for about 20 years, but, strangely, after the fall of the Soviet Union the interest of the students in this language dwindled to zero. The staff of our school decided not to offer Russian any more but introduce Italian instead.

I took over teaching Italian although I hadn't studied it but I'm married to an Italian and have learnt the language travelling and visiting family, I've learnt enough this way to teach beginners.

I like writing on travel and literature with occasional excursions into the fields of Food&Drink and Health&Beauty. I've been active on two British opinionating sites (dooyoo and ciao) for more than nine years and am now hooked on writing! Hopefully the members of Helium enjoy my articles as much as I like writing them.

My passion is ...

Reading, travelling, writing

I know too much about ...

Trivia

My parents always told me ...

Can't remember, it was sooooo long ago . . .

My childhood ambition ...

To become the director of a zoo

Why I write ...

To satisfy my hunger for appraisal and monetary greed, of course, like everybody else here on the site. :-)

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

A book by a Bengali author

My first job ...

Harvesting potatoes

My best moment ...

I've had several

Travel > Europe Travel Diaries Travel experiences: Lisbon, Museo do Oriente

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Lisbon has a lot of shabby grandeur. This is not the place to tell you why the grandeur has became shabby but where it came from, at least in parts. A visit to the Museo do Oriente (Orient Museum or Museum of the Far East) provides some answers. It’s located in the port area, next to a yacht marina, between the main road and the railway line and the river Tejo. The address is Av. Brasília, Doca de Alcántara, it can be reached by public transport, the buses 12, 28, 714, 73, 738, the trams 15E, 18 E and the trains to Cascais stop there (station Alcántara).  Op...

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