Author Archives: billybaba
DECEMBER 3, FRIDAY
HOME I’ve been back two days and slowly I am shifting to sleeping till 4 and going to bed at 9. But jet lag means that your body is on one rhythm and is being forced into another and is
DECEMBER 3, FRIDAY
HOME I’ve been back two days and slowly I am shifting to sleeping till 4 and going to bed at 9. But jet lag means that your body is on one rhythm and is being forced into another and is
DECEMBER 2, THURSDAY
JET LAG, CULTURE SHOCK AND TWITTERING I am up at 4 a.m. in Swannanoa in the dark. The December temperature today promises to be 72F/22C with sunshine all day but with chillier days ahead. Jet Lag catches up to me
DECEMBER 2, THURSDAY
JET LAG, CULTURE SHOCK AND TWITTERING I am up at 4 a.m. in Swannanoa in the dark. The December temperature today promises to be 72F/22C with sunshine all day but with chillier days ahead. Jet Lag catches up to me
DECEMBER 1, WEDNESDAY
MY KAFKAESQUE, MAGIC FLIGHT HOME I was driven by Oliver, my landlord to the Celle train station at 6 in the morning and got there in plenty of time. By bus I would have had only three to seven minutes
DECEMBER 1, WEDNESDAY
MY KAFKAESQUE, MAGIC FLIGHT HOME I was driven by Oliver, my landlord to the Celle train station at 6 in the morning and got there in plenty of time. By bus I would have had only three to seven minutes
NOVEMBER 30, TUESDAY
TRANSITION COMPLETED My last day in Winsen I let go. I wrote a daily response to the trip in which I compared the transition of going from Winsen to Swannanoa to the transition from life to death, then I said
NOVEMBER 30, TUESDAY
TRANSITION COMPLETED My last day in Winsen I let go. I wrote a daily response to the trip in which I compared the transition of going from Winsen to Swannanoa to the transition from life to death, then I said
NOVEMBER 29, MONDAY
RULES, TRANSITION AND DEATH I went to Heinrich‘s and Elke‘s house yesterday evening after going nowhere on a gloomy day. They are going to a funeral today of a childhood friend of Heinrich‘s who Kathe also knew. It is at
NOVEMBER 29, MONDAY
RULES, TRANSITION AND DEATH I went to Heinrich‘s and Elke‘s house yesterday evening after going nowhere on a gloomy day. They are going to a funeral today of a childhood friend of Heinrich‘s who Kathe also knew. It is at
NOVEMBER 28, SUNDAY
FAMILY Here it comes again, another transition. This trip has been full of transitions. To Athens, then Naousa, then Athens again, then Aschaffenburg, then Winsen all with new and interesting people and old friends. Each dislocation brings something new. And
NOVEMBER 28, SUNDAY
FAMILY Here it comes again, another transition. This trip has been full of transitions. To Athens, then Naousa, then Athens again, then Aschaffenburg, then Winsen all with new and interesting people and old friends. Each dislocation brings something new. And
NOVEMBER 27, SATURDAY
CELLE WEIHNACHT’S MARKT Saturday was a gloomy day with light rain in the morning. I had been planning to go to Celle to photograph the Christmas market but misread the bus schedule and thought there were not buses. But in
NOVEMBER 27, SATURDAY
CELLE WEIHNACHT’S MARKT Saturday was a gloomy day with light rain in the morning. I had been planning to go to Celle to photograph the Christmas market but misread the bus schedule and thought there were not buses. But in
NOVEMBER 26, FRIDAY
SO WHAT TO DO? Today Elke and Heinrich had to go to a funeral and a meal afterwards of a good friend. They will have to do that again on Tuesday. So I had the day to myself, a gloomy,
NOVEMBER 26, FRIDAY
SO WHAT TO DO? Today Elke and Heinrich had to go to a funeral and a meal afterwards of a good friend. They will have to do that again on Tuesday. So I had the day to myself, a gloomy,
NOVEMBER 25, THANKSGIVING THURSDAY
NEBENAN On Thursday I had potato pancakes with applesauce for lunch with with Heinrich and Elke and for supper Schnittbrot, bread cut up with cheese of several kinds and wurst of several kinds on top, for Heinrich and Elke the
NOVEMBER 25, THANKSGIVING THURSDAY
NEBENAN On Thursday I had potato pancakes with applesauce for lunch with with Heinrich and Elke and for supper Schnittbrot, bread cut up with cheese of several kinds and wurst of several kinds on top, for Heinrich and Elke the
NOVEMBER 24, WEDNESDAY
Yesterday Heinrich and Elke took me to the Deutsches Erdolmuseum, the German Oil Museum, in Wietze, to the village close by where we visited the Stechinelli chapel last week. I didn’t expect much. I knew that oil had been discovered
NOVEMBER 24, WEDNESDAY
Yesterday Heinrich and Elke took me to the Deutsches Erdolmuseum, the German Oil Museum, in Wietze, to the village close by where we visited the Stechinelli chapel last week. I didn’t expect much. I knew that oil had been discovered
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 