Published in the Studenpaper of the University of Iceland, November 2013.
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Out for coffee with a Young Pirate Iceland was wowing the German press, as well as dozens of commentators on the big newspapers’ websites, with their seemingly very basic democracy. They are working on a constitution for and by the people, holding referendums on bailing the banks out and even have the Pirates in parliament. …
It’s been a while since my last post and that is mostly due to the visit of my beloved. Another reason is the fact that I feel the last two posts were pretty good – and I do not feel able to achieve that again at the moment. Still, it is time to get back …
That Russia is not the upholder of human rights is generally known. Just last night the director of the privately owned “museum of power” in St. Petersburg, Tatjana Titowa, was put to jail and interrogated the whole night before she was freed today just to be arrested again a couple of hours later. And this …
I was on a camping and hiking trip through the outback of Iceland so that is why my post took a while and will be quite long. Two couchsurfers (if you don’t know this great hospitality and travelling platform check it out: www.couchsurfing.org) joined me, one American, Greg, the other Swiss, Anselm. We rented a …