Trafika Europe 3 - Latvian Sojourn

there were coincidences and chaotic stabs into the flesh of fate, I nevertheless said “yes.”

Money frightens, that's another one of its characteristics: it arouses fear. It's as if its very origins evoke crime, despite the bank’s guarantee of cleanliness. The more money, the more suspicion. I sit up, get to my feet, put on my sunglasses, and pause in front of the mirror hanging on the wallpapered wall of room 308, Hotel Hamburg. Who do you look like now? Am I sufficiently suspicious looking? Obviously not to the girls lounging in their usual places on Davidstrasse, who readily toss invitations my way:

“Komm schon, Blondy!”

“Komm schon, wir machen es französisch!”

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The docks of Hamburg, on the banks of the Elba, the largest pontoon structure in Europe. St Michael's Tower with its four clocks – the tallest clock tower in Europe. I

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