AdventsZEIT: Es ist Zeit, Zeit zu haben!

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Und schon wieder ist der 1. Advent da, die erste Kerze brennt, das Türchen geöffnet oder das Säckchen geöffnet und vielleicht schon Plätzchen gebacken. Alles wie immer? Ja alles wie immer, denn wir haben keine Zeit. Nicht für uns, nicht für andere, wir sind gestresst. Unsere Kommunikation ist gestresst und stresst.

1. Advent, WhatsApp von Lulu an Dudu (Namen erfunden):

"Und wie sieht's aus mit Weihnachtsmarkt? Wenn nicht, is auch nicht schlimm...regnet ja eh :)"

Free tap water for everyone!

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Greetings from the Netherlands. The first thing I get is free tap water. Great!!! Why can't they just serve it in German restaurants, too?!

Land der Kontraste - Arm und Reich sind (noch) Nachbarn

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InsideMarocco.Die Westküste von Marokko in der Nähe von Agadir, ungefähr 4 Autostunden von Marrakesch entfernt, bietet immer wieder krasse Kontraste. Zum Beispiel karge, traditionelle Fischerhütten neben weiß-strahlenden Luxus-Touristen-Unterkünften. Seite an Seite. Wer weiß, wie lange diese Fischerhütten dort noch stehen dürfen? Gentrifizierung am Strand.

Masters of improvisation

InsideMarocco. Bonjour le maroc, waste collection is coming! Here in a small Maroccan town at the seaside it's a bit different, well it's rather different than in Germany: an old rickety car with a driver and one guy slowly somehow sorting the garbage on the open load area while the car is standing. It seem to be rather meditative work, as if the guy had all the time in the world.
That waste collection doesn't have anything in common with the German one which is efficient and timed perfectly.

And altogether, in Marocco time seems to play a less important role, at the least in some parts of the country, while in Germany everything must be "schnell schnell."

Strait of Gibralta

InsideMarocco. Just blue and white...? The narrow strait connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. It separates Gibraltar in Europe from Marocco in Africa.

Now many migrants are rediscovering the route, across the hazardous Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco to Spain. It's a strange feeling to just fly over that path of hope and fear. 

And me, I could fly over, without any struggles. Just because I'm lucky. Lucky, because I'm born at the right time, at the right place. 

Moments before Surfing

InsideMarocco. Don't fight the wave, be the wave.

Trash and the ocean... don't fit together

InsideMarocco. Marocco should preserve its nature, its beautiful sand beaches and became aware of all the trash laying all over thebeach, between the bushes, beside the streets and drift on the surface of the ocean.

Pictures: SF