Where The Sun Never Sets
We were a long way from anywhere. A long way from the modern world – no phone, no internet, no electricity. The absence of electric light wasn’t an issue, of course: this far North, …
Category: Miscellaneous
A Summer Souvenir
Has autumn arrived with you yet? Has it brought a cool crispness to the air? Have you pulled your jacket a little tighter around you? Let me warm you, then, with this summer souvenir. I …
Where words and colour were lacking
There were not enough words to describe Russia. They flowed effortlessly onto the page, they overflowed: first onto paper, every day, something of a stream of consciousness; and then onto the screen, this time with …
København
Walk through the city. Use your feet, your eyes: see the sun sparkle off the water: reach the harbour, the sea, the space. Boats trace paths across gentle waves; and the sun, chased by careless …
Addicted
Bleak, bog-ridden, beautiful. Here I am again. I said I would not return, I would never return, but here I am. Too late, I ask myself why. The roar of the cannon is still ringing …
A Café with a Difference
Schön, dass du da bist! Can you hear the music? Can you see the happy faces, the warm light glowing through the window – just there, beyond the archway, across the courtyard? Come closer, have …
Row, row, row your boat
Pain was never like this before. Pain that whips your breath away, that snatches all your energy from you in a matter of seconds. You can’t think, you just hear the screams. Three – two …