Burning  bridges

starting a new life on the other side of the world was all the ·author·Jörg Albietz wished for.

His irrepressible drive for freedom haunted him constantly.

He knew: "If you don’t get on with what you really want to do with your life because of fear or cowardice, you'll regret it eventually and end up totally frustrated."

After trying several times in vain to resist his dreams, he had to give in, knowing that he had a challenge on his hands. Wasting no more time, he booked a one-way ticket to the South Pacific. Due to immigration laws, he flew back and forth between the islands and New Zealand for several years, always in search of a place that was meant for him. He visited wonderful places and made lots of friends. Along the way, due to innate optimism, or perhaps utter carelessness, he got himself into many tricky situations!

About the author

Jörg Albietz was born in the south of Germany in the rural village of Rüsswihl, renamed Görwihl, in 1958, and grew up in Bruchsal, the asparagus capital of former West-Germany. As early as the age of 12, an inexplicable urge led to his first attempt to reach the incredible Pacific Islands,along with with two other young runaways. After adventurous border crossings (Germany-Switzerland, Switzerland – France without passport), the first attempt ended abruptly in a police cell in France!

However, several years later, when he - after many more fruitless attempts - managed to get to the islands of the South Seas, his biggest dream had come true. Whenever he had to leave his paradise, he returned. Like a reliable boomerang. Then fate took a twist. He met an Englishwoman in New Zealand who asked him to move into her paradise. ‘It’s only temporary’ he thought!

What followed was the conventional way of life for most human beings: Marriage, children, house and career! Such matters are not really temporary. But after 14 years of working his socks off, the family decided to bid farewell to Britain and move on to the next place, to Rügen, a gem of an island in the Baltic Sea, belonging to Germany.

Since 2005, the freelance Business-English lecturer, translator and interpreter has lived with his family in the little hamlet of Tribkevitz, located to the north of the island near the ‘Wittower Fähre’. In 2008, the company English-Bus-Stop was hired by the French Company EUPEC Pipeline Services GmbH, a subsidiary of the multinational enterprise KORINDO, which had been awarded contract for the concrete     weight coating of pipes and logistics operations at a brand new factory in the port of Sassnitz/Mukran for the Nord-Stream-Project, the new Baltic Sea gas pipeline from Wyborg in Russia to Greifswald in Germany.