Back in the city of the Jedi Council. Interesting trip. En route, stopped off in the capital of the old Republic to make the pilgrimage that was blocked earlier, as the national church had been celebrating a pontifical liturgy when I arrived, and wanted only those of that nationality inside the building at the time. No matter. Some odd dreams in the interval. An interesting visit to a favorite city. But traveling by bus in summer does have its peculiar difficulties. Must find a magic carpet or something.
The rooms here are a bit pricier than the usual budget for these travels would allow. Some financial shenanigans forced me to book relatively last-minute, off the price curve. Had wanted to return to the theatre festival in Transylvania this month, but all of the places in the old Saxon capital were outside of the budget. As it turns out, with the last minute booking, what I'm paying now would have put me in range of a cheap set of rooms timely booked there, so that's a mite frustrating. But he moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. Mainly arm-wrestling the invisible hand of the markets, it seems.
Hoping for a productive month. It is familiar territory. Hopefully the shadow of war in the Western Balkans will recede once all involved realize that everyone else in the world is panicking over trade routes and there's very little support for vindicating claims of ethnic right. A peculiar world. For my part, I just read philosophy and visit the theatres.