On Monday night, I hosted my first ‘Global Freeloader’ — Silvia from Munich, Germany. If I had been more with-it at that early hour yesterday morning, I would’ve taken a photo of her IN the apartment instead of just a tele-photo from my balcony as she was leaving for the airport! Anyway, we had a good time for the short time while she was here. We went up Davie Street for some nosh at the falafel place, then headed back to the apartment. Then I had this sudden craving for bubble tea, so I left Silvia to her own devices and picked up some bubble tea and brought it back. She liked it, but the “pearls” were a bit too filling, and we’d had a lot to eat at the falafel place.

Hopefully I’ll meet up with Silvia maybe in Munich, if she’s still there, or wherever she decides to live. She was saying that Munich’s a pretty snooty place, and she doesn’t really feel like she belongs. She’s originally from a town near Cologne (ah, home of Kolsch), but she wanted to break free from village life, and ended up in Munich to work in high-tech. That was her career after a turn at being a nanny in England… she must’ve been there for a while, because her English is superb!

Silvia (taken from my balcony)