To the subjects of the Queen Elizabeth Battenberg-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in light of your continuing failure to choose whether or not to creep away from the EU, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today. The Dogger Bank shall be rebuilt in order to end your island status and continentalise Britain […]
Size Matters
Yeah, that’s one thing I learnt in the States. Let’s get through its first week’s lessons. The passport controls were nothing special. I mean, I was checked like, one time in Warsaw, three times in Zurich, and nothing less than 6 times in Los Angeles (further on, LA). But all of them were routine. First […]
The Rats
We first noticed the rat two weeks ago. These days it’s believable that winter is upon us. Grass and rooves stay covered in hoarfrost all day long, and we stay inside in front of the hot fireplace. The living room has got the last single-pane window in the house, a large panoramic one into the […]
Et tenebrae lūcem non conprehenderunt
Leon, I have more arts for you. If you really want to see Kraków for real, you should come to visit me – once more. Now, after you wrote such thing as… Oh, wait, you wrote it on Juanjo’s reference! That thing about me of knowing every corner of Madrid and now of Kraków, you […]
„… A to Polska właśnie…”
Leon, I have something for you. Do you remember Mehoffer? And these things? Well, now compare to this Turns out that these artists just make the drawing sketches, and then a glass expert produces it. You know, chain production. And I found the original sketches alongside plenty of other stuff you – English plural you […]
Between Adventures & Routines
My normal life is like living on holidays. And everybody needs holidays from their normal lives. So, maybe sometimes I need holidays from my holidays? Or do I need normal holidays? Or a normal life? Or no holidays? No holidays from holidays or from life? Oh dear… Last bike trip gave me a lot of […]
Drawing ugliness
A few days ago I was having a conversation with Stefan about stained glass windows, like those jewels of my and Nelson’s friend Mehoffer in Fribourg or the less readable ones in the Sainte-Chapelle. At one point we were both fumbling for a word – what do you call the space between four columns, several […]
È fatto
For weeks have we been silent: No time to write in these hurried last days of the trip, no ideas what to write after having returned home. Yes, we are back: Nelson in Małopolska and I in Westfalen. This trip has been harder than the one we did from Münster to Kraków in 2015: Physically […]
Sono – ma no siamo – arrivato
N: 40km done so far, now I have some easy 30km, then 10–15km of shit and I’m in Arezzo. There I’ll have 100km of pure flatness so I’ll check how much time I have before sunset. Now I’m eating in a spagetteria, fabulous carbonara for 5€. How are you doing? L: Food is scarce, […]
“Che cazzo guarda!?” – Cruising through Toscana
Last Monday was a very memorable day. What an absurdly long, mountainous, surprising, gruesome day, so exhausting that my quadriceps halved their length out of tension, my brakes boiled eggs out of heat, my water bottles expanded out of pleading for water, my sweat glands digi-evolved into fountains, and I’m going to stop with the […]