AT THE CHRISTMAS MARKET

in Duisburg.
Our travelday went well.
One stop after we had get on the lightrail we saw Mischa get on too and we travelled for a while together. Then she went to her work and we took our first train. In Duisburg we had more than an hour to spend and we walked along the Christmas booths, me taking pictures, an unfamiliar subject.
At the end of the market there was a Columbia Rad, a big wheel and Piet Hein asked me if I now wanted to have a ride. I declined. The last time I had been in a big wheel was when I was 14 years old and it was in the Prater in Vienna, the wheel there has big trams. I can recall every second of how I felt that time.
Famous because it had appeared in the movie The Third Man. In the film the protagonist had opened the door, imagine high in the air.
Spoken of fear of hights!
The news of the death of Peter O'Toole had some impact on me and I had brought the movie How to steal a million and watched it on my laptop in the trains.
In the dark we reached the Weserbergland. A quick meal and time to catch up.

My haiku:

I am not a bird
I cannot fly and I dread
The view from above

And the proverb:

Fear is stronger than love.

1624 in Burton's Anatomy of melancholy.