Category Archives: Munich

München

What This Is

This is not sorrow. It looks feeble, this sadness, but I assure you it is not benign. It may not have the ready strength of a murderer, but it will smear its malignance all over you nonetheless. It is slow, but sure. It is not a clod of dirt you can scrape off the sole

Das Experiment

I was experimented upon. It was the last day of last April, while I was checking emails in my lab, when a nice lady came in a desperate flurry and pleaded me to help her. How could I refuse a damsel in distress, flushed and blustering as she was? Turned out she wanted me to

Last In Line

Here’s some lyrics from Placebo, from me fav song of theirs called “I Know”: . I know, the past will catch you up as you run faster I know, the last in line is always called a bastard . Well, I was the last in line this morning at the Royal Haymarket Theatre when I

B O W I E

Imagine this: There I was at Stusta, having just left Lefteris (real name Elefterios, but they never seem to use their real names, do they?) and run all the way to the U-Bahn station just to miss the last train that would offer me any chance of going home in time to grab the ticket

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

Okey, I am in Blue Mike’s old room, which thanks to its new occupant, our Greek friend Lefteris, is spanking new and white. Yes, white. Clean. And it smells clean. Can you see how amazed I am? Of course, not everything changes. I dropped by at about half past three waking Lefteris up. He had

Touched By An Aneurysm

“Yesterday” is playing as I write this now so it explains my mood somewhat. Gets me all… I would say this about my friends – they really care about me. Those who know about my upcoming madtrek are worried some form of mugging or dismemberment will happen to me on this madcap backpacking trip I’ve

Before A Month of Solo Backpacking Around Europe…

Right. Ain’t life grand? I spent the most of yesterday lining up at train stations, banks, and other shrines of bureaucracy. And the result of trying to Plan a Spontaneous backpacking trip is that it is near impossible. I changed my battle plans so many times I am going cuckoo. Right now, my latest city