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2022. Halftime.
2022. Halftime.

If you haven't done it yourself, touring for a couple of months or longer on your own, you probably can't imagine how this feels. Changing places on a daily basis, losing ground both literally and metaphorically. It can feel, or rather it does feel, marvellous. Being free to do what you always wanted to do. On your own, walking across the sunny main square of Maribor, having a coffee in one of those unique, renown Kaffeehauses of Vienna, meeting wonderful, interesting people. Sounds great? Oh it is, but there are those other moments or times, the dark ones. When you realize being on your own is not always a walk in the park, when you realize it's just a nicer expression for solitude.

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Touring & traveling, Diary TravelogMartti Mäkkelätour diary, touring 2022, travelog, Mäkkelä, maekkelae, Semanovice, Scotland, Slovakia, diary, Halftime, 2022 Comment
About some of the good things 2021

Into the wee hours, they tried to convince me of songs. Czech songs, all in a way or another connected with the history of this theatre collective out here somewhere near Melnik. That'd be a corker, they said, if you'd be playing one of them some day.

"Schlaftrunk?", Martin asks. "Schlaftrunk!", I do reply, not the first time during this last evening. And then we're listening to that song about the man, that artist, waking up in the bed of a lady in Olomouc... At least that's what I understand from Mirka's explanations.

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Touring & traveling, Life under Covid-19Martti Mäkkeläblog, blog mäkkelä, Nostalgicka Mys, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, travelogComment
Ein wenig Fluchen und ein wenig übers Reisen 2021.

Sie haben mir bis in den frühen Morgen versucht Songs schmackhaft zu machen. Tschechische Songs, die alle irgendwie mit der Geschichte des Theater-Kollektivs, hier draußen bei Melnik zu tun haben. Das wäre wirklich der Knaller, wenn Du irgendwann einen davon spielen würdest. "Schlaftrunk?", fragt Martin. "Schlaftrunk!", antworte ich.

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Touring & travelingMartti MäkkeläSlovakia, Slowakei, Mäkkelä, blog mäkkelä, Tourblog, Hamburg, Tschechien, Czech Republic, Brno, HMLISTO, Semanovice, Nostalkicka MysComment