Hello, everyone! In times when you might think there’s nothing but bad news, we wanted to tell you about a great idea that put a smile on the faces of all nine of us. Children at the Protestant day-care centre Zwergenland in the town of Girkhausen (North Rhine-Westphalia) made a lovely model of ...[Read more]
Archives for March 2020
After the storm is before the storm
First of all, thanks so much for the flood of responses to our blog. I frequently deliberated whether or not I should continue the current talk about the coronavirus (which has also reached us in the form of news headlines on websites, and personal reports) in the blog. After all, we’re currently ...[Read more]
Turbulent Times
Hello, everyone! The flag’s been taken down on the airfield and the station has once again been prepared for the approaching severe-weather front. All the vehicles – except for two caterpillar trucks, just in case we need them – have been returned to the garage below the station, the massive ...[Read more]
Togehter alone
Hello, everyone! … So here it is, our first entry in the AtkaXpress blog. As I’m writing, there are currently 17 of us here at the Neumayer III station, a multinational community. It includes 8 Canadians with their two beautiful old Basler aeroplanes (two somewhat elderly “ladies” by the names of ...[Read more]