Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: After five or six long years away in Germany, when this writer had just turned thirty, I had just started my first round of freelance writing jobs, and already I had a number of stories in print ready to appear in the literary magazines, but they never materialised. I had not been home since June, that time they turned the house upside down, searched the entire town to find my father’s name among the first victims.
Yet still, at the end of the summer, I had a letter from Paris saying, ‘Welcome, my dear friend!’ It arrived in July. At last, I reached the city in the middle of August.
After the long flight from Berlin to Frankfurt, which took all day, and the long taxi ride to the hotel and then to the train station, I arrived there, and had my first meal outside the hotel—at the _mairie_.
The first thing that struck me were the trees of the avenue around the building and in the street. The plane trees were a long way off in the air, but they seemed as high and solid as the trees of Paris….
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