About me

My name is Michael Zinreich and I am a German born in the middle of the golden 80ies of the last century, that also marked the end of a quite exciting millennium according to historians.

After I’ve graduated in Computer Science in 2009 I felt the urge to leave the office behind and go traveling this world instead, I read so much about on the Internet. So I quit my job at the German Webhoster 1&1 and Internet portal Web.de to see what’s going on out there.

Of all these places in the world I’ve chosen New Zealand to be my new home base, which is probably because sailing is just a second nature to people down there and something I really fell in love with. Even so much that I went on a circumnavigation of New Zealand that took me over 5 months on a leaky wooden boat built by two crazy Kiwis and turned out to be a live changing experience.
I felt like being beyond all barriers and that nothing could stop me conquering the world or becoming what ever I want. Maybe a sailor or a brewer master (2nd attempt).

However, once I’ve put all the dreams of becoming a sailing master brewer aside, somehow I got back into the programming business, which was not 100% intentional but certainly a really good decision.
Writing software in New Zealand felt like a restart that enabled me to regain that writing code was once my big passion and still is.

So now here I am at the end of the world writing code for a French Company.
One day I will go traveling again and that time programming will go with me, to write the code that makes the world go round.

About Elchzone.de

The idea of the Elchzone existed for many years and was used to gain basic knowledge about web and graphic design when I was a teenager. But then the project fell asleep for a long time, which I revived in 2008 as a little blog about everything and nothing. Just as my own little place to fool around.

When I started traveling in 2009 this website gained a little bit more of a meaning as I started to share stories about my journey and a little bit of photography. However, it remained a little website that is nothing more than a side project that helps me to evolve my skills in writing English, photography and blogging.

I will show it to my grandchildren one day, so they can see what their old man was doing when he was offline.