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Jar of Dreams
“You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.” - Italo Calvino in Invisible Cities I spent some time this weekend re-looking through my...
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To travel or be “travelled”
Stefan Zweig, in 1926, echoed my sentiments on package holidays: “And yet, is it not the most mysterious aspect of travel that will be lost in such a fortuitous arrangement? Since time immemorial,...
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Qui si mangia bene e si spende poco
This line from Frances Mayes’ A Year in the World had me containing a laugh in the subway today: “The first sentence uttered by Italian bambini must be Pasta, mama, per favore, pasta.”
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Support Japan – Travel!
Just came back from visiting my sister-in-law in Japan. We spent 2 weeks in the country, a period long enough for us to explore quite a few cities in the Kansai region (Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Nara),...
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The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain on tour guides: “These are the people that make life a burthen to the tourist. Their tongues are never still. They talk forever and forever, and that is the kind of billingsgate they use....
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Die Welt liegt mir zu Füßen
Für das Dach über meinem Kopf bin ich dankbar. Trotzdem habe ich keine Sehnsucht nach einer festen, ersten Heimat. Mit 15 bin ich aus der Wohnung meiner Eltern ausgezogen. Seitdem lebe ich als...
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Chilly Awakening
October And the trees are stripped bare Of all they wear What do I care October And kingdoms rise And kingdoms fall but you go on. - October, U2 Classes are starting tomorrow and I still have a...
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‘Tis the Season
One half of my first semester in Freiberg has finally come to an end. Autumn’s gone, winter’s getting ruthless, fluffy white snow is piling up on the ground. The learning curve in the university has...
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S for (the nearly over) Spring
Summer is officially arriving in 24 hours, but I’m not quite ready to leave the current season just yet. This is why spring has been so awesome this year: 1. Skittish, but mostly beautiful weather It...
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Ach, was für Zeiten waren das…
Es gibt Reisen, an die ich mich zärtlich erinnere. In den meisten Fällen liegt es nicht an bezaubernden Sehenswürdigkeiten, sondern an winzigen Erlebnissen oder begeisterten Reisegefährten. Dank der...
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