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On my last day in Berlin I visited at last the Museuminsel, Island of Museums. It feels strange to ride an arched bridge onto an island on your bike. The island being castled with stately ...read more
My arms are full of scratches from traveling among the trees along the river. It's interesting how so much of what we see is due to attention. A woman passed behind me as I was ...read more
Entering the park at dusk we passed four very drunk men with maybe three full sets of teeth between them, squatting round a fire in a little glade of trees. Their enjoyment was loud and ...read more
Are ignorance & arrogance the same thing? I think they are. My friend and I argue. He says, ignorance goes inside, arrogance goes towards the outside. Yes I say; but as you destroy your ignorance, ...read more
Favourite German-English idiomcy of the week: a friend confesses to 'bunch-watching.' That's when you borrow an entire season of some tv show on dvd and watch the lot. Favourite personal neologism of the night: idiomcy. ...read more
Under the trees I saw two people riding side by side, holding hands between the bicycles. Not far away a duck plunged earnestly beak-first into the water, its tufted tail and downy bum held upright ...read more
Today I'm having ale and potato chips for lunch. Last night, ice cream for dinner. I was planning a little ice-cream-shop crawl but the first (pistachio with hazelnuts) was so rich and creamy it did ...read more
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Heart-curdling rage in the city today. I was in a crowded shopping street when a man began to roar at his son. He was bantam-weight, wiry, blond, apoplectic: the boy looked six or seven at ...read more