Category: life

I saw the pope in Rome today! Well, I saw a little dot in a massive window high up in a giant building. It’s true, there is an “uuhh” or “aaah” at every corner of Rome.

Today I enjoyed legendary pizza in Napoli’s most famous pizzeria “Da Michele”. Well, famous for locals. It is a tiny inconspicious shop that doesn’t look any different to any other of the hundreds of pizzarias in Napoli. Accept this one exists more than 200 years and has a massive crowd queuing for a seat infront of it most of the day. Da Michele refuses to expand their business or even to fix up the place a bit. They do good pizza and that’s it. They only offer two types of pizza and of course it’s really cheap. See this guide for more information.

..and here I am, city of Napoli. Andrea (a friend from Dublin) and his family gave me a warm welcome in their city. I shared last night’s accomodation and todays train with two guys from Mississipi. Hi Lucas, hi Gerald, nice meeting yous. 🙂 The train journey was nicely slow and scenic. On the first sight Napoli looks quite industrial. I will have a look at the historical city centre tomorrow.

Just arrived to Pescara/Italy. Had my first pizza and learned my first essential Italian words: “ostello” and “mangiare”. 🙂 I flew with Ryanair from Frankfurt-Hahn. Btw.: When you are coming from somewhere in northern Germany the best way to get to the airport is a “Bohr” bus from Cologne central station. It’s only 5 euros and takes 2:15h. Off to Napoli tomorrow..

I went by weekend train ticket to Rosbach in the southern Rheinland to stay at my family there before I fly to Italy. Thanks to the lovely weekend ticket people and to Regine for hosting me.

500,000 and 1 participants in Berlin at the big protest for a peaceful solution to the Iraq issue – yeah! “Hoch die internationale Solidaritaet!” 🙂

Happy birthday to me! 🙂

After being in Berlin, some places in Poland and Rostock over Chrismas and New Year’s I’m now working away in my hometown Schwerin/Germany for a while. Maddin and Kev host me and my laptop in the mandarin/Friko office. Thanks!

I’m in Düsseldorf! Thomas who I used to work with at Giga TV in 1999 celebrates his birthday. For fixing their Linux internet router they let me stay in their flat and give me food.

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