The last time I’ve been telling you about my adventures in english dates a long long time ago, to the end of January just before I left Ankara. I couldn’t leave it like this, but I also do not have […]
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The tale of 100 and 1 night
It almost looked like that after three weeks I finally gonna get out of Ankara (however comfortable it was), but on the road to the station I heard some whining mournful sobs coming from the rear wheel and when I examined their origin, I […]
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Farewell to Europe
As my days in Thessaloniki were coming to an end, I was becoming more and more restless, because the ax of Christmas, clenched inexorably into the days of the upcoming week, insisted on me doing someting with it. Every single […]
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Nights in the Balkans
The time had come to say farewell to Italy: The lonely apartment, an extensive count of empty wine bottles, piled up on the kitchen counter, last breakfast (filling up a plastic bottle with oil for the journey), shaking hands with everybody, […]
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My days among the olive trees
How the last three weeks looked like and why did it take so long before I finally posted something: You get up at six o’clock in the morning, work until twilight and then go to the press. Free weekend? Nay! […]
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The diversity of Italian South
Today it’s exactly one month since I left my old life behind and with the chain rolling on the large cogwheel, I had started to move away by leaps and bounds. A month on the road is quite a while, so it was time to breathe out […]
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Towards the eternal city
It’s hard to believe that everything that has happened this week occurred in just seven days. It could very well be two or three weeks, at least that’s how it seems to me. Maybe I just visited three parallel universes and now amazed, I […]
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Coming to terms with the journey
When one embarks on such a long journey that its end lies beyond the last sheet of the current calendar, its impossible to absorb this fact immediately. It’s almost unbelievable for it means derailing from the tracks you used to […]
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The Manifest
Let me paraphrase Hamlet and say that my universe, out of all its joints just went crazy. But probably not even in the bad sense – rather just that there is something enormous in front of me and I crawl out of the Platonic cave, blinking […]