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Just another Sunday in Mauer Park – Berlin, Germany

April 12, 2016by Lola Leave a comment
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EUROPE, LIFE IN EUROPE, MUSIC, RECKLESS RAMBLINGS, REFLECTIONS, TRAVEL IN EUROPE

Kreuzberg Kid Photo by Lola Abrera — National Geographic Your Shot

November 21, 2014by Lola Leave a comment

It was 3 a.m., and I found myself wandering around the district of Kreuzberg, Berlin. He asked me for some change. I dropped in a few cents and asked him […]

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EUROPE, LIFE IN EUROPE, TRAVEL IN EUROPE

Pieces of Berlin

April 3, 2014by Lola Leave a comment

“Regard experiences then as if they were about to disappear: what is it about them that anchors or roots them in reality? What would you save of them, what would […]

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Hamburg: The Big Picture Show

March 23, 2014by Lola Leave a comment

“Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance–nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city –as one loses oneself in […]

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Barcelona: Graffiti Hunting

August 1, 2013by Lola Leave a comment

“Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.”  Raymond Salvatore Harmon  

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On the Streets I Ran

February 14, 2013by Lola Leave a comment

Has it really been six years? Has it really been six years since I was wandering the streets, getting lost, riding trains, and hunting down vintage trash, sex and sleaze, […]

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Berlin Stories: Part 1

December 30, 2011by Lola 1 Comment

“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. […]

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Three Women

May 9, 2011by Lola 1 Comment

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.” — James Joyce As the hotel elevator doors opened, I wondered what my mother […]

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EUROPE, LIFE, LOLA 101, RECKLESS RAMBLINGS, REFLECTIONS, TRAVEL IN EUROPE

Wandering Through Berlin

April 23, 2011by Lola Leave a comment

I always looked forward to weekends in Berlin. Those were the days I would allow myself to wander. I’d even purposefully let myself get lost: If the way home was […]

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Berlin Beginnings

April 23, 2011by Lola Leave a comment

I miss Berlin. It’s funny how I ended up moving to a city that I hadn’t even planned on visiting. I was on the first leg of my solo backpacking […]

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