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Dresden: jewel in the Saxon crown
“All time is time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.” Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five Dresden was not on my list. Berlin, Krakow, Prague – they…
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Berlin: dual city duality
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.” Christopher Isherwood – Goodbye to Berlin Berlin’s influence through the past two centuries, it’s hardly controversial to note, has rarely been subtle. Similarly, from Berlin emanate the themes which would shadow my travels through that corner of central Europe once hidden behind…
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Tom the Curious
…ambling and rambling. “Travel is useful; it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue.” Louis-Ferdinand Céline, ‘Journey to the End of the Night’. Pretentious prittle-prattle from my solo travels; questionable puns all my own work. Including postings from: Berlin Dresden Dresden to Prague by train Prague Krakow, including Auschwitz Zakopane and the…
