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Accommodation We (three fellow students from Regensburg) changed our bed & breakfast from The Times Hotel to South View Hotel. Only 20m down the road, but worlds apart. Finally clean bathrooms without the remains of the previous guests in, on and around the toilets/bathrooms. No breakfast there, but compared to the mouldy toasts we had [...]

I’m sitting on the stairs in the Times Hotel in Swansea. It’s the only place where the “free wi-fi” is effectively accessible. The fact that I’ve left home and am going to stay in Wales for the next three months hasn’t really sunk in yet… Still listening to Lagwagon’s Violins. But at least “Farewell” instead of [...]

By the way, all my term papers are written, printed, and handed in. By the way, my skateboarding is impressively bad. By the way, After the Fall‘s ‘Fort Orange’ is unbelievably great, and I’m looking forward to their upcoming album. By the way, I’m writing songs again. By the way, the pictures below have little [...]

I do not write about my thoughts. I do not write about my feelings. I do not write about my opinions. I do not write about my political views. I do not write about my actions. It is not that my thoughts are shallow. It is not that my feelings are inexpressible. It is not [...]

One week in Prague. A course called “Sites of Everyday Life In Socialist Czechoslovakia”. A good friend as a roommate. A guitar and a harmonica. A supermarket and vegetarian/vegan restaurants. A concert of a Romani-folk-jazz musician. New people to meet and get to know. Who would ask for more? Well, to be honest, less rain [...]