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Bremerhaven: Waiting
There will always be someone who quotes that old chestnut "patience is a virtue" but who, like most of us, has no patience to wait when a delay effects them personally. I admit to being one of those without adequate patience when it comes to things that I cannot change, where the influence of a third party makes a difference to an arrival time,
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Bremerhaven: The Hidden
The Christopher Street Day parade in Bremerhaven is only three years old, one of the newest to join a massive following of Pride celebrations in Germany, and proudly taking its place among all the others as the movement grows, as more people show their true colours and come out onto the streets.
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Travelling: Tickets I Have Known.
I have been a traveller since the early Seventies, beginning in England, travelling and working in Wales and Scotland, exploring Northern Ireland and, later, Ireland. At a young age I made my first trip overseas to France where, mouth open in amazement, I discovered that the French, and other European foreigners, looked and acted much the same as we did on our small island. My first trust issues, especially of a specific teacher in my North Yorkshire school, began to surface.
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Friendship
It doesn't matter where you are, the signs are clear: friends out together. Two people, sharing time and experiences. It is said that women can hold far better friendships to one another than men can, but with the caveat that each has its own level, its own expectations, and often its own gender specifics.
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Schwerin: The Parade.
Christopher Street Day, celebrated across Germany as in many other countries, and a time when countless people of all persuasions come together to show their colours, to celebrate, to campaign for improvement, to be seen and to be counted.
