If there’s one thing that travel has taught me, it is that experiencing a new city or country will always rest on where you are in life. How old you are. How much of this life have you seen. Whether or not you are in a good place, heart and head wise. And if health is on your side. These are small things but you carry them with you everywhere you go. They are permanent baggage, heavy and weightless at the same time

xI had a very different idea of Berlin in my head. I’d say to my friends that if I ever were to kiss another woman, I’d do it in Berlin. I am not sure why, but to me, the city was always this lit-up, hip, graffiti-laced place that stood out in the books for its most dramatic and consequential historical events from a past not very long ago. It was (and maybe it is), in my head,

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