So, I’m here in Stusta with Manuel (he’s correcting my Italian). Mike Stone is missing since approx. 9 hours and a half ago. He was supposed to go to Oly Dorf to find a place to sleep since a funny Chinese kid is staying in his apartment (ah, the beauty of entrepreneurship… he rented out …

Giulia is the kind of girl who gives you a large empty book and expect you to write things in them. And then she mocks you. She held a going-away party last night together with Maggie, her Polish roommate, at their Oly Dorf bungalow. Delicious cuisine of the Bavarian-Italian-Polish variety was served, with a good …

München. Snow. In February. After an unseasonal period of great weather, we get this shitty snow thingy again. I hate snow. Unless I’m skiing. Then it’s fun. I’m not skiing. Snow is currently not fun. And I can’t seem to find a reliable free web host. I hate not finding reliable free web hosts. J-Dawg …

Matthias brought the mail in this morning, and two postcards from Hong Kong. Mike and Maria, en route and at the airport. Pre- and post-takeoff as Mike flew to Thailand and Vietnam. Guess my German and American pals would have found me out by now and that everything I’ve told them about the Chinese are …

She was the first to go. Scratch that, sounds a bit too ominous, what? Anyway, Belinda will be returning to London this coming Tuesday. Basically my first Munich friend to depart from this fair city. (Many more in weeks to come: Giulia, Giorgio, Marco, Donatella… we’re running out of Italians fast!) So we did what …

I’m 24 today. According to the Chinese Zodiac anyway, which, rather unfortunately, is completely ignored by the authorities everywhere, almost with a vengeance. The Year of the Horse is upon us, and nothing will ever be the same again. You wish. Instead, I just woke up from a long and luxurious afternoon nap, feeling rather …