“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy at home.” Anton Chekhov A reasonable drive ahead of us today. We head out for a run and get in some breakfast and a few coffees. On the road at 8.30 am. It is a six hour drive to Budapest. About half an hour…
Year: 2025
Schlafen
“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense” Franz Kafka I sleep and sleep. I slept through the night. When dawn broke through the curtains, I went back to sleep. When Shell held me, I went back to sleep. Dreamless, deep sleep. I can’t remember sleeping like this. “Sleep…
Running Man
“Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight” Vladimir Nabokov I slept poorly. Our air conditioning system kept turning off, making it a particularly hot night. It’s a cool, overcast morning, and all I want to do is run. An odd feeling for someone who does not enjoy running. Or…
Demographics
“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.” Simone de Beauvoir I wake up with a slight hangover. It is early, and Shell wants to go for a run before it gets too hot….
Bad Füssing – Germany
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” Henry Miller Up early for a run. It is a warm morning and it is tough going. I can’t be bothered with breakfast. We walk to the town square and I order a coffee that comes…
Guebwiller – France
“They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.” F. Scott Fitzgerald I slept well. Our place has floor to ceiling windows on two sides, and I thought the light would keep us awake. Somehow, in the heart…
All Roads Lead to Burgundy
Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen. Prince Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord It shocks me how quickly my body loses conditioning. It probably shouldn’t. I am old, I am eating terribly, and I have been drinking mightily. It is devastating what regular alcohol does to the body. Still, I am only a week…
Sondrio – Italy
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.” Jack Kerouac It’s a strange feeling leaving a place you visit often. Not just the village, but the apartment. It’s easier to leave knowing you’ll be back. I slept well with…
Ročka Konoba
“Morning brings back the heroic ages. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting vigor and fertility of the world. The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some…