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, […]
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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]