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Jul 31, 2010
Greifensee, CH

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Call of the North (29): Auschwitz

7 august

I had thought of various titles for this post, but after being there I felt there is no room for any metaphor, or any subtlety.
Yes, we all know the story. Nazis killed ~6 million Jews and other nationalities in concentration camps during world war 2. Problem is, we cannot think in numbers. Or actually, [...]

Call of the North (28): Krakow, Pearl of Poland

Aug 7th, 2008
In the movie “The Termina”, Tom Hanks plays a Polish man who gets blocked in an airport terminal because in his country a separatist group declares independence of the “Republic of Krakozhia”, with guns and turbulences. I still don’t get it. Is it a joke on the Polacks? If it is, i think [...]

Call of the North (28): Ćeść, Warszawa!

Aug 5th, 2008
Expectations and “first contact” were pretty grey, but changed radically as soon as I left the hostel. I had no idea where I was, so I went to the right, where the Medias-fan at the hostel told me that i would find tourist info.
And up the street it was – wow.

Large, clean, shiny, [...]

Call of the North (27): The Warsaw Pact

Aug 5, 2008
Scandinavia is no adventure. Not even the Baltix are an adventure. What sounds more like adventure is arriving at 6am, after a torturing night in the bus, to an unknown place, suburb-looking, where almost everything is closed, nobody speaks any language you might understand, the local language has nothing to do with anything [...]