To the early and less enduring snow of late autumn that year followed abundant precipitations that soon covered with a white mantle the mountains around Munich It could have been the landscape printed on a... Read
The daylength was shortening and the winter was coming Autumn with its colourful games was also leaving the pace to the quiet and well ordered mood of the winter A Sunday morning I was going... Read
The exotic and fascinating aura generated by the Islamic community has not spared to influence Munich under different forms The curvy belly dancers of the local burlesque review Kurdish refugees living in Germany for a... Read
I came back quite tired that night riding on the bicycle for more than 50 kms in a day is something I was not accustomed to I am not either during these days Just the... Read
I move around the ruins of an highly classified area paying more attentions to the thriving nature than to the desolated buildings Field flowers are surrounding the place Like in a pre raphaelite painting wild... Read
Ralph had become one of my best friends in Western Germany Sympathetic with my peculiar condition he was so deeply attracted by Italian culture that he allowed me to forget about the political troubles I... Read
I need to relax and play the music of Johann Sebastian Bach on the piano It has been installed on my special request a silent mechanism Just to watch out the reaction of my neighbours... Read
Quite regularly the jewish community offers to the inhabitants of the city cultural initiatives aimed to give to the gentiles a positive perception of its own presence They are always enjoyable mostly organized by gentle... Read
Among the others I have acquired a good sense of familiarity with colleagues moved away from the former Socialist Republic of Romania Some of them are actually Hungarian and still sadly recollect the Treaty of... Read
It is not the same to work with a local company that also hires foreigners to cut the budget still maintaining the habits of the country and to be employed within a multinational based corporation... Read
It rsquo s Monday once more and a new week will start among the labyrinth of cubicles that constitutes my workplace If I could take a slice of the tower that is hosting me among... Read
The sun has risen once more and it rsquo s sunday A day for preaching it were not that I have preferred to declare myself an atheist than to pay the Kirchensteuer An expensive toll... Read
The hardships of exile sound harsh also for those whose spirit would tend anyway to expatriate and explore what lies beyond the horizon What has been left behind is after all a full explored world... Read
It is during one night spent out looking for girls and wasting money on cheap beers that I have met one of the most extraordinary creature who has so far populated my adventure She appeared... Read
We gather close to the city centre A friend of mine and I are looking for some seductive glance from young ladies Especially those who have just ended the University and are looking for a... Read
Environmentalism is a science or a religion or both of them As much as marxism has been for more than a century and Scientology claims to be Adepts of environmentalisms as well as of Scientology... Read
He had experienced my fears and understood my feelings he had lived my obsessions much more than I had done so far He is a colleague of mine and comes from Erfurt from the former... Read
I reach the office quite early as usual Germans do The schedule is quite flexible and even full time employees enjoy some freedom that is seldom allowed to freelancers in other countries Like that I... Read
When I wake up I usually roll peacefully in my bed I seldom had such sweet dreams before for so many nights in a row nbsp It rsquo s like to qualify first for the... Read
I suddenly stand up and move in the direction of the next door aiming for home A slim and tall man who has followed the conference leaning against the wall without speaking raising a question... Read
I wake up at 6 o clock I have not already left the habit to reserve the most precious hour of the day before getting ready to go to work to my favourite activities Reading... Read
I am leaving the office for half an hour of fresh air As someone condemned to a long imprisonment charged of a terrible crime My exile is however sweet as the water of the Promised... Read
Thinking at the lifestyle I have left behind me there are seldom any complains I will have to start from the scratch the project of a new established life but no alternatives are available in... Read
A greater game was indeed progressing outside the borders of the Democratic Republic After a couple of generations the cleavage with the Free World would have been so evident that even those few opposers survived... Read
Recovering a morale stormed by uncontrollable and adverse events is the hardest task members of humankind could accomplish Injuries of a life spent under the influence of a witless potentate are the most nefandous effects... Read
The bright rays of the sun entered the open space in that early morning The engineer hardly realized to have successfully digged an hole under the wall of the KZ chosen for him by the... Read
Although image manipulation with the help of an open source tool easily available from the web as well as the design of a virtual professional profile resulted to be quite trivial harder was to create... Read
Day and night the engineer had to work on his new identity Italy was still at least nominally a European nation he had no reason to behave like the subject of an African regime Yet... Read
I approached that decisive night when I definitely decided to settle on the roof of what sooner or later would have become my former company with the most pro active spirit that any consultant should... Read
As the time went by the world became to welcome petty employees all around me Most of the chatting about the last TV shows wired the previous evening Others just striving for a cup of... Read
Most of the ICT companies rely on workers hired by agencies that according to the professional gossip are causing too many redundancies and quite an unsustainable raise of industrial costs per unit The practice was... Read
The gentle light of the morning penetrated the blinders to hit the screens of the few desktops left in the office Nobody was there and I could enjoy my loneliness Perhaps the secretary had already... Read
It was so quiet out there Apparently no noise was produced in the hearth or the metropolis during the night when just few workers were active and most of the students spent the money provided... Read
I entered the supermaket and looked around me I was quite unnoticeable among the mass I collected some provisions mainly edibles that don t require cooking fruits and vegetables off the shelves Some sushi as... Read
The day after the meeting I m welcome into the office by the gloomy light of the lamps Quite a large open space in which 60 people nbsp have got to work together side by... Read
A purposeless meeting is the one I m going to face or at least what I m expecting of it Meetings and committee are the best subject for financial humorist even in the Anglo Saxon... Read
The deadline is approaching That s the deadline of the project lead by a bunch of managers whose number is by far higher than the technicians involved That s the deadline for the last of... Read
I ve got to type as fast as possible avoiding that someone could spot me I m not working on the main project I m assigned to I m not reading the documentation of the... Read