More notes from my recent trip to Central Europe. Prague is amazing, but the touristed zones are hard to enjoy due to being heavily overrun. I feel like the real Prague is sort of hidden, would take some further digging to get to.
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Berlin Diary
Notes from my recent trip to Central Europe. Berlin is amazing: in a state of beautiful decay and vigorous reinvention.
Prague: Pictures
Took some pictures while in Prague. Left my battery charger at home so no pictures of Berlin. I’m editing my travel diaries and will post excerpts from them soon. Two weeks in Europe gave me a lot to think about.
Ocean Beach
Sparrows in the pooled water by the storm wall. Graffiti on the storm wall, the long curved smooth concrete.
Big Basin
There’s a green empire just 90 minutes drive down the peninsula from San Francisco, in the Santa Cruz mountains. Big Basin is a retreat into the archaic woods.
Venice Freakshow Barker
Listen to this man: he is alive. Got this audio snippet while checking out Venice Beach, where I was last weekend.
Venice Freakshow Barker Audio
Iquitos!
The sun goes down on the Amazon. Stilt walkers stride long, on tiny baby shoes. A multitude of white herons on the floating vegetation. The water stretches out like a lake, to the ocean of green beyond. A woman bears a cross of balloons. A tile gateway frames the towering sky. Electric blue lights turn [...]
Museum of the Inquisition, Lima
Wax inquisitors sit at a covered table with claw feet. A wood cross like a gnarled tree rests on the table. Here is the place where people kneeled. Further into the building, they were interrogated by men licensed as holy.
“Con este tormento se combinaba el castigo del agua que consistia en colocar en la boca [...]
Lima Notes
At the traffic light a boy with long dreadlocks juggles, spinning batons high in the gray air. When he finishes, a girl with facial piercings doffs her fedora and runs from car to car, collecting soles and centimos in her brown hat.
The Lima freeway is like an American freeway in many respects, but between the [...]
