Trafika Europe 3 - Latvian Sojourn

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It is worth noting that this city, with one foot in the sea and the other in the river, has strange pigeons. At first, you mistake them for northern sea gulls, but they are actually pigeons, they have a white or dark gray ring around the neck. A sign of something familiar, native, like back home. Here’s the other thing that made an impression on me: As I was wandering around at night, next to the manicured green lawns on either side of the navigation canal, I saw light shadows jumping on the grass. Because of their size, I first thought they were rabbits. But then I saw that they were rats, nonchalantly passing by on some path of their own. Hamburg – a river town, a sea town, northern and very rich. Rats, prostitutes and the Reeperbahn: they didn’t give the impression of seediness, but quite the opposite, the feeling of stable Saxon comfort, which made it almost fitting to pay for pleasure with his money.

Of course, when I think about that money, the pleasure can only fade, nothing more.

I couldn't give in that easily, however. I tried to find somebody to blame: the mechanized environment, the change machine, the video player that projected the films

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