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Willi is about 21 here

Stockholm / journey home

Closing impressions of Stockholm and the journey home via Copenhagen, Berlin, Frankfurt and Heidelberg

Diary page 38

Translated from Willi's German.

...they take things very easily, and have no all-too-great struggles. Stockholm itself, Sweden's capital, is a magnificent city, entirely set in water. Everywhere you go, there is water and there are ships. The city is very clean, has magnificent buildings and very good theatres. I did not do a great deal, as I had to save, but I was never bored. I made very good progress with the language in Stockholm. When the confusion in the shop grew ever greater I gave notice, and at the same moment the police came and expelled me. So I travelled on to Malmo, and from there to Copenhagen, which I now had a chance to look over - a fine harbour city. The fish market was interesting. The crossing to Germany was somewhat stormy, but I liked it very much. In Berlin I visited Salborn, where I was given a fine welcome, though the circumstances were difficult. By way of Frankfurt and Heidelberg it went home, and in the first hour of my coming of age I stepped over the threshold of my father's house. I had now been away from home continuously for nearly three years.

People: Willi Distel, Salborn(?)

Places: Stockholm, Malmoe, Copenhagen, Berlin, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Villingen

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