~Deutsche Version unten~ The stories in the two semi-biographical books I have written, "Siberian Shadows - 3 Short Stories with Illustrations" and "Siberian Shadows - A True Tale of Necromancy", are almost all set close to the location shown in this photograph that one of my relatives, who has recently visited this part of Siberia, has sent my mother this morning. The sheer otherworldliness, the serenity and but also the somewhat oppressive quality of the scenery reminded me

~ Deutsche Version unten ~ Monday mornings have a certain slumber to them - one half of your mind is still celebrating the weekend while the other half already enumerates all your daily worries. As I was sitting in this bar in El Puerto, I couldn't help but remembering that this quaint little town was once home to one of Andalusia's most famous poets - Rafael Alberti. Therefore, here a poem dedicated to the dawn: "Naming the Dawn With gentle red assaults, Dawn, I was granting