Category: Travel
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NYC – WDC – NYC
A trip to the US: going through New York to get to northern Virginia, for my mother's memorial service; and back to New York for four busy days. From the beginning, the sheer ease of things was startling: the flight to New York, the early landing, an almost unbelievably efficient and relaxed JFK – I almost…
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Last night in Zürich
After a month in Zürich, lectures and seminars and parties at the Jung-Institut, sharply cold weather shifting to rather warm weather (for which I have proven unprepared, still stalking around in my grand black coat and sweaters), I'm – packing, somewhat fussily and ineptly (isn't this supposed to be vastly easier on the way home,…
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… wenn es schneit
Zürich. Snow. Küsnacht. Jung. Green tea, clear cold light, scarves, and the realization that when I blithely think I can get away with wearing heavy cotton rather than wool I'm just fooling myself. This time, studying at the Jung-Institut seems well-defined, sharp-edged, demanding but utterly in focus. We will see how that develops, or shifts…
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Last night
The last night in Zürich… after my final interview, and a very rainy day. The interview went well, I thought – in fact I'm hoping that all six went well; we will see, of course. I was tired and a bit dazed afterwards, wandering the city in the rain, trying to find a place to…
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Genève
On Sunday, after three weeks of classes at the Jung-Institut, I took a train to Geneva to spend the day with Barbara, another student who has been counselling refugees for some years. (It always seems as though the German name for the city, Genf, is an irritable attempt at vengeance by the German-speaking on the…
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Lingue
A good day at the Jung-Institut – the middle one of three hot days. Tess's writing seminar was very good – why in fact doesn't she do this for four hours a day for three weeks? that would work – and when people chose to read their work it included a man with a beautiful…
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As in a dream
Küsnacht/Zürich: classes, seminars, meetings. Although everything is very organized and conscious, especially the way I do it (iPad at the ready, taking many notes and tracking various things to do), we sometimes mention to each other that there is something strangely aware and resonant about things – we may dream more, we all get into…
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Zürich, noch einmal
I've been here in Zürich for a bit over a day now… a small apartment up in Asylstraße (Asylum Street – yeah yeah very funny I know). Very, very pleasant to have a small apartment, as opposed to the small hotel rooms without baths or kitchens I've taken for the past two years – and…
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City, city!
A trip to London: good – the weather was unusually pleasant, I saw wonderful people (Chris, Alfred, Sophie), hung around in bookstores and bought books. Not so good: the usual – transportation (waiting half an hour for an underground train that never came because practically the entire line is cancelled on weekends – London is…
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