About me: soon 70, German, long-time Japan resident
Outdoor hobbies
I like cycling, running and hiking.
Here are a few routes done by my younger me (links go to Google Maps):
cycling 2h, 45 km tour;
cycling 7h, 145 km tour;
cycling 10h, 174 km tour;
running;
running;
running.
For some reason I do not know, I stopped all these activities around 2016. Now that I am retired (June 2024), I have managed to start cycling and walking again. The restart was and is quite difficult, as I had to realise. Hopefully I will be able to do such tours again.
Indoor hobbies
Reading fiction and non-fiction (especially science), writing with fountain pens, drawing and writing, language learning (mainly English and Japanese but a few other languages too)
I try to accompany this with blogging to share what I learned and to improve my writing
It will be all about books:
Travel to the world by books; about my favorite cats:
My cats and me; about Japan:
JapanLive; and about pens and writing:
MKE's view on pens.
During this blogging, I plan to move my Instagram accounts from
@mkeinj to mkeinj on this domain and
@mkepens to mkepens on this domain.
Here is a list of what is happening on mkengel.de.
2024/8/2: Got an SSL certificate to get rid of the "not secure" browser message when connecting to mkengel.de. Rewrote this page.
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