the gas station philosopher
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two days in Valencia
two days in Valencia
Valencia seems big but not too big, modern but not too modern, opulent but not too opulent, burgeois but not too burgeois. It has it all…
Tarragona and a look back
Tarragona and a look back
here I look back almost 50 years at the same streets, houses and windows of Tarragona were I grew up. The little park-inside-a-roundabout…
Kochel am See and The Franz Marc Museum
Kochel am See and The Franz Marc Museum
The frozen dew in the late autumn covers the fields and trees around the Kochelsee and melts as the sunbeams light the morning. The last…
Audio Testing Area and Michael Galeza duo
Audio Testing Area and Michael Galeza duo
Audio Testing Area Andreas of the 5 days bed in and Michael Galeza play an experimental duo music session. Andreas in the guitar and the…
The Glindower Alpen in Potsdam
The Glindower Alpen in Potsdam
Not far from Berlin’s tumult of trafic, people, concrete and graffiti, the Glindower Alpen in Potsdam soothes us with forests of autumnal…
Berlin and the Kreuzberg
Berlin and the Kreuzberg
The Berlin Ostbahnhof north of the former Berlin Wall sets a pivot point between the DDR time pre-fab concrete buildings on the north and…
Berchtesgaden and the Watzmann
Berchtesgaden and the Watzmann
the Watzmann smiles to us with missing teeth from his high stand over Berchtesgaden like an unworried playful teenager. As we gain…
the end of the warm season and the last punch
the end of the warm season and the last punch
as the warm season is gone and autumn is well underway, nature makes a last stand, and send us a last punch of vitality and color before…
a slow stroll through Munich and the afternoon sunlight of autumn
a slow stroll through Munich and the afternoon sunlight of autumn
slow and aimlessness strolling through the centre of Munich on a quiet Sunday afternoon as the sunlight of autumn brings textures and…
old Bahnhof main building and demolition
old Bahnhof main building and demolition
pale yellowish daylight used to come through the glass panes on the facade of the old main building at the main Bahnhof in Munich. A light…
THE BEAT OF THE PARTY AND THEIR PEOPLE
THE BEAT OF THE PARTY AND THEIR PEOPLE
A gigantic heart in the centre of Munich pumps millions of people in and out of its party grounds through blue veins of concrete and steel…
it cannot get worse
it cannot get worse
so why not voting to the party of Beppe Grillo in the next Italian elections? hypothesises the patron of my dearest luncheon place.
fall to the bottom with Primo Levi
fall to the bottom with Primo Levi
Born in 1919 in Turin, Primo Levi was captured on December 1943 by the Italian fascist militia, delivered near Modena to the Nazi regime in…
scaffolding the corporation for the 2030
scaffolding the corporation for the 2030
in still many corporations, young arrivals would, after a time, come to realise that the only way to make a career is to work up the ladder…
becoming invisible
becoming invisible
In former times, the worst possible punishment a society could impose on an individual was being sentenced to invisibility. Ayla was thus…