Travel
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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.
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A Slight Disappointment
I always had the impression, and I am sure many others did too, that the Coffee-Bike, from which one can and does buy delicious coffee, drove on its own three wheels to each event where I have seen it. I could well imagine a happy coffee person, bicycling across the country, without a care in the world and plenty of coffee beans
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Hannover: First Impressions
It is no secret that the very first impression a person receives, whether they realise it or not, is the one which will influence them for a while to come. It could be a person, it could be a product or, in this case, a city. That first view settles how the mood is going to be for then rest of the day, and it is very hard to shift, to sway, to dispose of.
