The cable car took us steadily higher and higher up the mountain. The view was spectacular on one of these last-days-of-summer. Showing guests around I too got to see the city from above for the first time. The new…
Du-du-du-du-da-da-desperate
Merging with my eardrum is my new favorite song (BRONCHO – Class Historian). It makes me so ridiculously happy it is beyond silly. I concur: ’til now I’m doing great doing well is pretty vague Happiness is currently…
Hunting the Carolina Reaper
Today was one of those perfect days. The warming sun was mildly hot and accompanied by the sweetest of summer breezes. On our bikes in the South Tirolean country side we were on a mission: to acquire the (according to…
Homeless in Bolzano
Once again the sun shines over the mountain ridge. It is a beautiful day and after a couple of days of rain, my skin immediately reacts to the radiation, leaving a blushing band over my cheeks. Sitting on the balcony…
The journey continues
Germany lay behind me as the train once more heads down south. For the first day in weeks I feel I have a moment to breath. The past week too many things were on my plate. Mind occupied, I did…
Touch wood
You know that feeling when everything is changing and you know everything is going to be alright? I am not entirely there yet. Avoiding doing anything really useful I instead started on unfinished-business I planned already last summer: A…
The shackles of online freedom
Just yesterday my blog reached 4000 individual visits (blogger is probably overestimating it with about 50%… still). Flattered – I think it is number higher than it deserves. Unsettled – I think it is number higher than what is comfortable.…
Prima accommodation-huntress assoluta
A week ago I arrived in Italy on a day that started after about three hours of sleep at 03.30. It was due time to head to the airport. Disguised as a ‘Risi-Frutti’ my lethal-death-ray-of-mass-destruction was confiscated at the airport…
Hundred percent
When I on my trip to Sweden unfortunately ended up spending too long at the airport, I seized the opportunity to do some “beauty shopping” in the tax free shop. Completely absentminded I behaved like the most wanted in between…
Pixar and mental illness
“Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life’s problems.” – Sadness Watching the latest Pixar masterpiece – “Inside out”, I found myself almost dying of laughter. The core idea: in your brain lives five little characters…