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The Urge to Travel
The season has hardly begun, and in some areas the snow has barely melted from the roads, but the first motorcyclists are venturing out, letting the breeze blow - symbolically - through their hair as they blow the cobwebs off winter-stored bikes and warm leathers. I sit, almost every working day, in my commuter train and dream of places further afield, of packing a small bag with the bare necessities, and just taking off again....
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The Big Gold Nightmare
I met a North American from the United States in a small town in northern Germany a few years ago. He was sitting on a bench under a tree in what passes as the town's main square, where the May Tree is erected each year, and looking very sorry for himself....
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Bremen: Before the CSD Parade
It looked very thin on the ground initially, but then I was there very early with my camera, even before most of the exhibition and information tents had been set up. A few people gathered, meeting up with friends, greeting those they hadn't seen in a while, queuing up for a cup of water or a beer, and it was relatively quiet.
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Lübeck: 17 August 2024
If there is one thing I have noticed about every single Christopher Street Day celebration / demonstration that I have attended over the years, it is the joy and pleasure of those taking part. Everywhere you turn there is a smiling face, there is music and people dancing.
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Sights Seen And Reported
One of the things we forget, as we go about our daily lives, is that what we see, everything that parades itself in full glory before our eyes, is just for us and us alone. No one else gets to see, to experience, what we do in the same way.
