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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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An Age Of Innocence.
Summer is the time for children to be out and exploring, while they are still innocent of the machinations and dark ways of the world and its people. Parents enjoying an ice cream with their children, talking about what they see and what they know, and protecting against a small dog which had been loudly yapping at the child's feet.
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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
