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Tag Archives: Berlin
Erfurt excursion – Berlin briefly – Leipzig living
I began writing this in transit on the way to the capital having missed the Flixbus and worked up quite a sweat in the process at the tail end of a week of consistently 20-degree weather. The switch to Deutsche … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged Berlin, Deutsche Bahn, Erfurt, Flixbus, Hamburg, journal, Leipzig, life, Thüringen
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Luther, Lyrik, Lieder und Leipzig
Trees increasingly denuded, the mulch on the path starting to settle, I find myself stumbling into the final third of November. Since my impromptu excursion to Manchester at the end of October, Hamburg’s schools have gone back, but of course, … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Life, Music, Personal experience
Tagged 1984, Abitur, BadBadNotGood, Berlin, Bremen, Canadian bands, Ein Sommer in London, electronica, European, folktronica, funk, George Orwell, Girl Ray, Hafenklang, Hamburg, hip-hop, identity, jazz, Leipzig, Mac Demarco, Martin Luther, Mojo, national, papacy, poetry, Poetry slam, protestantism, Public Service Broadcasting, Reformation, regional, Sylvan Esso, Theodor Fontane, UK-German Connection
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The rise of hyphenates and the demise of icons
As the concluding hours tick down on what to many has seemed a fairly dismal lap around the sun politically and in terms of “iconic” deaths I thought it was time to add my evaluation to the numerous top tens, … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Life, Music, Politics
Tagged 2016, Berlin, Edinburgh, exams, flats, Frankenstein, Fringe, German, Glasgow, Honeyblood, journalism, life, Motion Poets, Orkney, St Magnus Festival, Twin Peaks, Warpaint, We Were Promised Jetpacks, work
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Reise nach Deutschland
For the past fortnight I have enjoyed the pleasures and borne the anxieties of solo travel. I’ve always considered myself an uncultured swine for not having seen enough of the world, nor consumed adequately of its literature to compensate. My … Continue reading
Posted in Personal experience
Tagged 2016, Berlin, Brandenburg, Burg, Cottbus, German, Germany, journal, journey, Prague, Spreewald, travel
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