Frohe Ostern!
Happy Easter!
Христос воскрес!
المسیح قام!
Χριστός ανέστη!
Whether you are Christian or not, and celebrating it or not — at the root of this holiday lies the universal spring celebration of renewal, regeneration and rebirth, so this is what I wish you all.
Traveling alone
(photo: me at Berlin-Tegel airport, 1982, five years old and getting ready for my first international flight alone)
In 1981 I was four years old. My parents decided to send me to my grandparents to a small town in Western Germany, south of the Ruhr coal basin. Getting me there was a logistics challenge. West Berlin was sealed off except for a few official transit routes through the GDR. There were so-called interzone trains, but they were slow and it would have meant changing trains in Hanover, which made it impractical for an unaccompanied child. Air traffic was difficult because, according to the Potsdam agreement of 1945, West Berlin could not be served by German airlines, only by those of the Western allies. But there was British Airways, who had a special agreement to operate flights between Berlin and West German airports. My parents decided to put me on a plane, overseen by a stewardess. After our life in Sudan my parents were confident that four-year-old me would manage. They took me to Tegel airport, I went on my first domestic flight alone to Düsseldorf, where my granddad would pick me up. I was scared and lonely, but the flight crew looked after me a bit and cheered me up, and everything went smoothly.
Renting skis in Berlin with @samulischielke , going from Schlachtensee to Teufelsberg in Grunewald, and then on the frozen Havel river all the way down to Wannsee. This was in February 2012, it had been under -10 for a few weeks, which in Berlin is not that bad because the air is finally dry. It was the last time skiing on the lakes was possible, and with climate change it may well never happen again
Немного Приозерска вам в ленту. Накануне Дня независимости мы переночевали здесь по дороге. Википедия все еще называет его закрытым городом, и все еще машин с российскими номерами на дорогах много и телевизор в квартире только Путина и готов показать. Но по факту город открыт, сюда ездят летом на пляж и зимой на остановку, хотя шлагбаум на въезде все еще безлюдно стоит и о себе напоминает. Тоже по своему деколонизация, маленькими шагами.
С днем рождения, Казахстан! Все у тебя получится, иногда медленно, иногда со скрипом, но все будет.
Объявлен Бишкекский первоапрельский конкурс современного искусства 2025 года «СВОБОДНАЯ ТЕМА»
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