Silivri, Januar 2012 Diesen Artikel auf Deutsch lesen It smells like Cigarettes and fresh coffee. The men on the tables around us play dominoes, cards or a game that looks like rummy. Dursun looks out for another game of dominoes, cannot find any and puts a box with rummy-tokens on […]
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Kavala, Grecia, December 2011 Leer en Español *Filoxenia: greek for hopitality, welcome, shelter. It is December 24th, one day before Christmas. Annika and I are ready with our ingredient list for our Christmas dinner celebration. We flew straight forward towards the cheapest and biggest supermarket to do our shopping. “ […]
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Kavala, Greece, December 2011 Diesen Artikel auf Deutsch lesen When we cross the border to Greece I am excited. It has been nearly five years since I have travelled the birth country of Zeus, Odysseus, Socrates and Homer the last time. We take the first exit on the freeway to […]
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Thessaloniki, Greece, December 2011 When St. Paul visited this city around 52 A.D and wrote what is presumably the first book of the new testament (First Epistle to the Thessalonians) he would have never imagined what it would turned out to be. Today this city of over 2,300 years of history of intense […]
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Skopje, Macedonia, November 2011 Leer en Español I heard the chants that came from the Minaret sometime around noon. I couldn’t make up for the words but I knew it was an open invitation to pray inside the Mosque. The chants created a very interesting mood while I was walking […]
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