Sunday, June 30, 2013

Burning and ....Celebration of Books

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My local branch of the Thalia bookstore chain was offering remaindered books yesterday in the huge Rhein Centre Mall just minutes from t...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Footloose and fancy free

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Several times on this blog, I have highlighted the nomadic life I have lived for the past 22 years – with least 20 addresses during that...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Bulgarian protests get serious

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OK, time for some normal service! I left Bulgaria in mid-April - leaving my nice flat in the heart of the city for the summer months. Af...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

A sado-masochistic canter through some German books on contemporary society

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Everything is going to the dogs, if we are to believe the books to be found on the shelves of average mainstreet German bookshops today....
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

German introspection

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I’ve spent 7 weeks so far in Koln – Germany’s fourth largest urban district. The same time I spent in Berlin in 1964. It is my first real ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

German rulers out of touch?

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As I was wading through last Thursday’s copy of Die Zeit, I was hit with a full-page ad from  a group which is trying to bring a radical p...
Monday, June 17, 2013

June 17 1953 - Electing another people!

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Sixty years ago today, East German workers rose against their government - an event which is being marked extensively in the German me...

Greek freedoms

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The events around Taksim square in Istanbul rather drove the Greek government’s sudden and inconceivable closure of the state media (ERT)...