{"id":110,"date":"2016-04-30T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T08:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/07\/april-palaces-a-trip-to-milan-and-one-decade\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T01:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T23:20:37","slug":"april-palaces-a-trip-to-milan-and-one-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/2016\/04\/april-palaces-a-trip-to-milan-and-one-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"April: Palaces, a trip to Milan, and one decade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This blog turned 10 years in April. What the?! It started out as a crappy Blogger blog called \u201cBlogski Christowski\u201d, then I moved it to WordPress, and eventually ended up on Tumblr, because I once thought mobile blogging would become a thing. It didn\u2019t though. Micro-blogging became a thing, and all the blogs I used to enjoy as a teenager disappeared. The only things people really blog about these days are green smoothies, fashion and the death of blogging. Everything else is on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, you name it. But I like it here. I like the old school flair the word \u201cblog\u201d pours. And I am glad some of you are still around. Thanks for that.<\/p>\n

April was packed: I went to Milan for the first time. It\u2019s a nice city (even though my friends mentioned through-out the trip how different Milan was to other Italian cities). What I don\u2019t really understand is Italy\u2019s coffee culture: You enter a caf\u00e9, order at one counter and pay (even if you haven\u2019t decided for your type of croissant yet), then walk to another counter and choose the croissant, and finally order again \u2013 at another counter \u2013 the coffee you initially ordered. You have to drink it while standing in everyone\u2019s way though, because if you sit down, the coffee gets really expensive. I don\u2019t know. If you\u2019re used to Berlin\u2019s artisanal coffee-brewing craftsmanship, Italian coffee simply is nothing special.<\/p>\n

We went to the furniture fair, Salone di Mobile, but realized that 24 halls full of chairs and brass side tables are too much to handle. We mainly were fascinated by the first halls; the \u201cClassics\u201d. Everything there was a bit too much (understatement of the year): Gold, marble, heavy curtains, a champaign bar that electrically rises out of a palatial wooden table. There is so much luxury in the world that we can\u2019t even imagine.<\/p>\n

More Milan: 150 years after Da Vinci finished his gigantic and famous mural \u201cThe Last Supper\u201d, someone cut a door into it, and Jesus\u2019 feet were gone. Like, who would do that? In German museums, you are likely to be expelled by the museum attendant if you don\u2019t keep a safety distance of two meters from an exhibit.<\/p>\n

Three more thoughts that popped up last month: <\/p>\n

Always leave with the mindset of leaving for good. If you are a nervous traveller, do not think about the fact that you have to go back again. That thought pollutes the whole trip. Travel and think, Ok, I\u2019m going to stay here.<\/p>\n

Concerts are poems, really. I went to see Akua Naru, without knowing her, and I was sure that her music wasn\u2019t really my kind of music. But her show was brilliant: A mixture of rap, jazz, mellow and loud, connected by a well-crafted narrative. Which is really the most important thing for a concert (and the reason why I hardly go to any concerts anymore).<\/p>\n

All palaces are temporary palaces.<\/p>\n

April was not only busy, but also decision-heavy. I wondered: Can decisions really be wrong if you decide to always make the best out of it? May will show us. I\u2019m off to catch some sun now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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