Archive for July 8th, 2009
My dogs are barking…
I walked 14 Kilometers today, to and from Westerland, Sylt’s main town. Most of the journey was along the bike path, but I did take a detour through the dunes so that I could walk along the beach for a while. It’s all quite gorgeous. And once in town I took a stroll down the main drag like any other tourist. eventually I found Woyton’s the local, semi-funky wifi equipped coffee shop. I have the homing instincts of my tribe. that being the tribe of louche caffeine-swilling screen gazers. I didn’t have the laptop with me, but as I sipped my latte and ate my sandwich I saw my fellow patrons intently pecking out their various communications. The laptop has replaced the blackbound artist’s book that so many of us regarded with great seriousness in previous decades. Then the joke was that we were all working on masterpieces of solipsism, projects so twee they would never be published. Now everything is published, and to what effect?
This post could have been written there, while I was looking out at the encroaching storm clouds, but instead it’s being written here, back in my tidy apartment. I managed to beat the rain back and I’m about to grab some dinner.
Tags: cafe society, Sylt, walking