Poorly sick

I am a bit poorly sick. Guess when it started … Correct! The first day of my holiday. My General Malaise, as we called it, went up and down – sometimes hour to hour – and ultimately turned into a sinus infection, for which I’m now taking antibiotics. It pleases me that the tablets are [...]

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Böttcherstrasse

Böttcherstrasse is one of those tourist attractions that is quite possibly full of tourists wondering what it is they’re meant to be looking at exactly, but there are signs pointing you into the street and everyone else is going that way, so you follow them. That’s not to say there aren’t things to look at, [...]

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The characters of Bremen

Bremen has its very own Grimm’s fairytale: The Town Musicians of Bremen. A statue of the four animals of the story, a rooster, cat, dog and donkey stands by the town hall and the front feet of the donkey are shiny from thousands of people touching them to make their wishes come true. Just like [...]

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Stained glass and fishy cherubs

Set back from the Domhof, the cathedral square in Bremen, stands the Liebfrauenkirche, the Church of Our Lady, which is a good bit smaller than the cathedral. I have absolutely no memory of deciding to go in, or of crossing the threshold, only of exploring the inside of the building, so it’s quite possible that [...]

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Bremen Old Town

I took only hand luggage to Bremen in March, so I was trying to keep weight to a minimum. This meant that as in Saarbrücken, I took only the 24-70mm f2.8 lens for my camera, the lens that I would need for concert photography. While it’s just the thing for concerts, it’s not quite so [...]

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Bremen

The trip to Bremen was a weird anomaly. You know why? Because we didn’t get stranded in the middle of nowhere, or have to trek across Germany to get my flight, nor did a big storm hit, cancelling the concert. From leaving the house to returning to Stansted 38 hours later, everything went just dandy. [...]

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