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I’m back in Amsterdam where they celebrate the Saint Nicholas’ eve today. This guy is the basis for the more familiar Santa Claus, but originally this eve was the celebration of Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children.
Exactly twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall was opened and Germany was reunited about a year later. I remember reading about it in the newspapers of 1989, perhaps a bit too young to fully grasp the impact of this monumental event.
Nice is nice, but after walking along the beach of Promenade des Anglais and spending a few hours exploring the city I felt quite done with it. If you got the time I strongly recommend exploring the surrounding area.
You don’t need to visit Arrakis to experience massive sand dunes. A few days ago I was driving around in Denmark with friends. We saw an unusually large dune by the horizon and drove there.
I guess most people visit Denmark for the friendly atmosphere and nice food. But then again, I’m not like most people. During this road trip across Denmark, the main topic was German bunkers from World War II.
It was a magnificent day for departure with clear skies and 11 degrees Celsius. Me and Frida donned our heavy backpacks at the Central Station in Gothenburg and boarded the first train of many to come.
I walked alone in the streets of Tokyo and felt like a benign Godzilla. Everywhere I went, people stopped in their tracks and stared. I started humming on the song “Big in Japan” by Alphaville as I was a six-foot-five gaijin in a sea of people shorter than me.
It is a strange sensation to wander around in a Japanese town as a six foot four gaijin, a foreigner excluded from the language and everyday rituals that everyone within sight silently obeys.
The name of Hiroshima will forever be connected to the horrible event in 1945. On August 6, the first nuclear bomb to be used against mankind detonated 580 meters above the city, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
I am currently sitting in a dark room at a hostel in Seoul, South Korea. Trying my best to recover from an exhausting day of warfare study. Earlier this morning I looked into North Korea with binoculars, seeing their flag shaking defiantly in the wind.