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Author Archives: Andreas Moser
Red Star
“OK, we’ll tear down the old houses, put up a high-rise building and sell expensive apartments. Long live capitalism! But don’t touch the monument with the Red Star, comrades!” (Photographed in Tivat, Montenegro.)
Random Thoughts (20)
If you care neither about the deficit, nor about providing public services, it’s actually quite easy to cut taxes. When I saw books by Džon Grišam at the bookshop in Montenegro, I was happy that my name wouldn’t have to be … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Books, Economics, Germany, Italy, Language, Montenegro, Politics, Romania, USA
Tagged christianity, christmas, drugs, Jesus, marijuana, Oprah Winfrey, Vienna
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Harley-Davidson is not what it used to be
Photographed in Funchal, Madeira.
The Cross and the Star
In Yugoslavia, the Socialist star and the Christian cross got along quite well, it seems. (Photographed in the cemetery of Velji Zalazi near Kotor, Montenegro.)
Posted in Montenegro, Photography, Religion, Travel
Tagged cemetery, christianity, church, Kotor, Yugoslavia, Zalazi
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Vrmac – where you get drunk from hiking
Zur deutschen Fassung dieses Artikels. The only disadvantage about Kotor is its location in a fjord, surrounded by steep mountains, which to cross takes the sun a few cumbersome hours every morning while it already warms people and spirits elsewhere … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, History, Montenegro, Photography, Travel
Tagged hiking, Kotor, Tito, Tivat, Vrmac
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Easily confused (65) stable and smart
In fiction: In reality: Heck, even the part about the investigation makes sense in both contexts.
Titograd
Could it be that my map of Montenegro is a bit outdated?
The German passport is the best – and the worst – passport in the world
Zur deutschen Version dieses Artikels. For world travelers, the German passport is the most useful passport: 177 countries can be visited without a visa or with only a visa on arrival. That saves money, time, effort and uncertainty. While holders … Continue reading
Don’t blame the messenger!
This kind of job always ended up with me. Maybe I didn’t put up enough of a fight. Maybe my silent and thoughtful manner got mistaken for sadness, thought to be a suitable attribute for this particular line of work. … Continue reading
Film Review: “The Pirates of Somalia”
The story of a young graduate who wants to become a hot-shot journalist, receives the advice “you wanna make it as some big-swinging dick journalist, you gotta go somewhere fucking crazy” and goes to Somalia to learn and write about … Continue reading
The Happy Hermit 