Today a new realisation started to unfold. I realised that sometimes we need to escape not only from pasted bad things, but from the loss of the best of things. To my disappointment I realised that it appears easier to…
Death Row Relationships (short version)
Suggested Soundtrack: Once in a while I do some “window”-shopping at IKEA’s online shop. Not having purchased any furniture (except a mattress) in… actually, I don’t think I ever bought any substantial furniture at all.. it is a rather pointless…
A perfect day hiking next to Mt. Marmolada
For about a week, Pandabear and Bambi came to visit. It was that pleasant peace that comes in the company of good friends. We decided that one night we should stay at a mountain refugio which turned out to be…
Pleasure Pressure or The Colour of Cheese
Suggested soundtrack: Desperate to follow my life’s motto of ‘better do anything than nothing‘ I ended up at possibly one of the mediocre-strange of art-music-gadgets show I’ve seen in quite a while. Kandinsky, nazis and model trains in a wild…
Visit from far away
Visiting from far away for a weekend was Mickey Mouse. After the mandatory: “these are the mountains, this is the city, this is pizza and beer and wine and apfel strudel”, we spend the late nights drinking (not nearly enough)…
The 30+ club
Suggested Soundtrack: About a week ago I returned to an apartment in an as messy state as I left it: dirty dishes, unmade bed, in the refrigerator moulted vegetables and soured milk, a cockroach in a glass jar (it’s a short and just-as-pathetic-as-it-sounds…
Like something out of a Woody Allen movie
Suggested soundtrack: Artie Shae – Moonglow, Dooley Wilson – As Times Goes By, (Eagle-Eye Cherry – When Mermaids Cry) It was Midsummer’s eve and I woke up two hours after I went to bed. Unable to fall asleep again, I…
Levelled with the birds
Sneaking out from work on a Wednesday, me and Amelia Earhart took the opportunity to go to Rode di Vael to do the Via ferrata Majare/Masare. It was a wonderful day with perfect weather. A really thrilling but fairly easy climb.…
Staring at butts – climbing the Heini Holzer ferrata
A while back me and Amelia Earhart climbed possibly the most spectacular ferrata we have ever done: Heine Holzer. It is a new ferrata, only two years old, but already the crumbly Dolomites has taken its tole on the path. Scar…
17 hours of fruitless German queuing and training
Suggested soundtrack: Imagine Dragons – Thunder The woman on the other side of the counter could feel my panic. The room could feel it. With sweat like a second skin, I could feel it. The train was two minutes late,…