Indian Pride

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I heard from a friend that Delhi would hold its annual pride march on November 30th. Of course Mallory and I had to try to find it, and we did, after a little odyssey through the center of Delhi. We missed the march itself – due to our prolonged Thali lunch, but then saw a […] Read More

Occupy Hong Kong

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Everybody asks how it is in Hong Kong, about the protest of Occupy Hong Kong. My mom warned me not to go to places with many people (a difficult task in a tiny city state with 7 million people…) Fact is: I haven’t seen or felt anything of the protests. Strictly nada. Ok, I heard […] Read More

Interesting times

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‘May you live in interesting times’  is said to be a Chinese curse, that we all have heard at one point or the other. Seeing the protest that have sprung up in Hong Kong over the organization of somewhat free elections promised for 2017, I came to realize that I have ‘escaped’ a few political […] Read More

Bazaar

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Finally, the last thing on our list of big tourist stops: the Great Istanbul Bazaar. It’s a nice stroll through an old complex of buildings and corridors, halls and domes, all interconnected and basically turning a whole neighborhood into a market, an ancient shopping mall, so to speak. You can buy most anything a visitor […] Read More

As time goes by…

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Sabine and I strolled into a most interesting art exhibition today, more or less by accident, looking for another gallery. We saw Christian Marclay’s The Clock today. He made a 24-hour-movie, assembled by countless snippets of other movies, in which a scene indicates a certain time, shows a clock, wristwatch… The movie is shown around the clock […] Read More

Marcha del Orgullo

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Saturday I went to the LGBTIQ Pride March in Buenos Aires, called the Marcha del Orgullo with some friends, old and new. It was held at the Plaza de Mayo, Argentina’s central square in front of the presidential Palace, the appropriately named (and later lit up) Casa Rosada – the pink house. It was a crazy […] Read More