Travel

Let’s inspire not impress each other

September 21. A real friend.
Tonight I'll be my own good friend. No other options. But I'm looking forward to it. This way, I can be the friend I want to be. Talking about interesting topics, asking deep philosophical questions without portraying his own theory, looking me into the mirror into the eyes, going to a movie we really agree ...
September 11. Luxury, Experts.
Luxury - a very harch critique is the title of what I want to write today. I want to analyse the infantile causes that make people strive for luxury, and tell them in sevenhundred relentless words how despicable everybody is who even points with his finger at a golden watch. I want to produce a ...
September 8. Smaller and smaller people.

How big. To me, people appear too small for the enormous decisions they might have to make. They might have to decide about the gender of their child, yes about its right to be born at all. We will see small persons pondering those impossible questions and at one point seeking assistance. The machine ...
September 7. Maculate drawings.
How about this: "for ONCE in your life NOT to be constructing that life around your own future. For once, o dear god, living this life as a self that has the goddamn luxury to have wider interests than his self." It is a quote from the writer Fleyms, who is hardly known these days. ...
September 6. Berlin attracts me again.
Night I spend on the highway Szeged - Budapest - Bratislava - Brno - Prague - Dresden - Leipzig. The car smells of bell peppers, four big sacks of Serbian bell peppers share the back seat with me. I am happy. This is the father and his son. They take me kindly to Leipzig, and ...
September 5. Faster than your shadow.
The world is big
Friends, tell me her story to-night
May be she is listening
Sing not about how small you are
Sing not about how frail you are
Friends, tell me her story to-night

This saturday I say goodbye to my Greek friend who takes me to what turns out to be the ...
September 4. Murky waters.
This is the land of the Great Alexander (356BC-323BC) and we feel like visiting some tombs. Not his of course, since his remains were lost after his death somewhere in India, but the tomb of his father Philip of Macedonia and it is a very impressive structure. A round hill contains several tombs of the ...
September 3. Thessalonikiiiiii.
Waking up on the Acropolis, walking around through downtown Athens, fetching a liter of milk, drinking on a bench surrounded by pigeons foraging. A bus takes me to where the highway is supposed to begin and from the moment I take that bus a real chain of friendliness is hunting me. The woman in the ...