Conscientious

This is going to be the first entry about my most recent traveling, to Germany and France. It's a bit more personal than the other ones which will be (slightly unusual) travel photos only.

sketch-book n.
1. A pad of paper used for sketching. Also called sketchpad.
2. A book of literary sketches.
(2b. Conscientious' new category in the spirit of 2.)

If there ever was an art of travel I'm afraid I'm not familiar with it (likewise for the art of attending a conference). Calling it the art of travel implies there is a technique to it, something that you can do to make traveling enjoyable. But what I've found is that traveling is mosty enjoyable when I do absolutely nothing to prepare myself for it; and then I do absolutely nothing that could take away from anything that might and, inevitably, will happen (however, note to self: In the future, avoid US Airways, the worst airline in the world, even if it is just one flight out of four).

There's nothing that embodies the kind of hotel I'm in better than the smallish TV set, which is made to hover in a corner of the room by means of this kind of suspension. Since the last photo I took of one of these already disappeared in what one might imagine to be the depths of the internet (reality is much too mundane for modern man or woman), I had to take a new photo, somewhat fittingly this time a digital one. I still have the old Polaroid, though, somewhere at home, and I have the nagging feeling that it will continue to exist, physically, beyond the digital life time of this new photo, and I'm not saying that because I'm old-fashioned or a cynic (even though, deep down, I might be a bit of both).