Prose

Narrative writings: essays, reviews, polemics, short stories, etc

Helsinki #1. How to grow a Swede.
I got up at 6am (why do I write the 'am'? Getting up at 6pm is not really about the kind of trip I'm making), so got up at six, slipt slyly out of my bed, packed my back, left a thank you note for Ellu on the table, took a banana and sneaked out ...
Tallin #4
And so a few days passed. Hosted by very friendly Estonians that made me feel really welcome, I managed to write some pages and finish the German story I was working on, plus some other stuff. Well, this is not my writer's blog (as opposed to writer's block) anyway. I had a great time and ...
Tallinn #3
Another day went by in peaceful reflection and writing. I stayed at Ellu's place now, a very friendly Estonian whom I met at the party my first night there. I produced enough pages to be content and lie back in complacency at night.
I still saw something of Tallinn though...


Well, that's Estonia: ...
Tallinn #2
The next day I had a lot of coffee and I managed to write a lot. I also began to take this blog seriously. Then I walked through the Old Town, which is really impressive. Enclosed in medieval city walls, there are a few square kilometers of cobble stone roads with beautiful houses. I walked ...
How to get to Tallinn
Now I knew the drill: bus - hostel - bus - hostel - bus - and it already had gotten a little bit boring.
So I decided to travel a bit differently from now on. From Riga I took a very slow train to Sigulda where a nice castle should be located. I didn't see ...
Riga #2
Breakfast was free in the hostel, and I really enjoyed it. It was already 2 PM as I went out to walk around Riga and find a place to write. Once out of the Old Town, I strolled through a park and found the atmosphere vibrating. Suddenly, a black Ferrari showed up, with soaring engines. ...
Riga
The night was short. John took an earlier bus to Riga. I stayed in my bed until checkout time, and went to the bus station at one PM. I missed a lot of the beautiful scenery on the way to Riga. I still was really sleepy and the driver had to wake me up as ...
Vilnius #3
So the next morning we walked around again, enjoyed the beautiful old town. We bought something in a supermarket, again, and I cooked a little brunch for John. He took his guitar and showed me how to play "Blowing in the Wind" by Bob Dylan with just three chords. As I fingered around on John's ...
Vilnius #2
My second day in Vilnius began with a simple breakfast together with the cleaning ladies. They were really working too hard, vacuum cleaning the community room several times, and doing my dishes, despite of a paper on the wall that read Your mum doesn't work here,
so wash everything you use by yourself.
I pointed ...