Travels inward, outward bound…
A trip I took through Germany in the Winter of 2018-19
I'm home now, sitting on my deck on this pleasantly warm early morning. The typical Australian summer suburban sounds swarm, magpies carolling and lorikeets chattering amongst other intermittent and other distant birdsong and the fuzzy buzzing of the crickets' and cicadas' crescendos. It is always good to return to home and with the disorienting jetlag [...]
I'm loving being in greater Germany. Although I loved being in Berlin, it is so cosmopolitan and such an international hub that you can easily forget you're in another country, and the Lingua Franca is almost Englisch which also contributes to that feeling of a halfway cultural experience. So when you move out of that [...]
It's been snowing this morning in Göttingen, just as the sun was rising above the wintry clouds on the horizon. There's a dusting still on the roofs and the ground that's not melting as it's still below zero. We arrived yesterday around lunch time after a two hour train trip from Berlin. It was a [...]
It's the morning of New Year's Eve and we've been officially warned by our Airbnb hosts that Berlin celebrations are not for the faint hearted. Fireworks are only for sale for a few days leading up to New Years. The combination of alcohol and fireworks and youth can be an explosive mix. Achtung! The booms [...]
It's 7:30 am and winter-dark outside. I've been awake for awhile due to a random sleep pattern partly attributed to jetlag, partly to a rather annoying viral illness. It's oh so quiet except for the resident cats chomping on their dry food, the other occupants of the Airbnb (my daughter and her boyfriend) are doing [...]
Presence in Place 