"When you travel,
remember that foreign countries are not designed to make you feel
comfortable. They are designed to make their own people feel
comfortable."
Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999),
American writer.
Zitsa,
Greece, February 20, 2015
We feel very sorry for our
thief. We usually leave the bikes parked in the main square, surrounded by
people. But at nine o´clock on a freezing morning, nobody walks the
streets of Cetinje. No one but the clever character who opens the bag on
the handlebars of a loaded bicycle probably hoping to find something valuable.
He has just seconds to perform the maneuver before someone sees him, but
things look good: he grabs a pair of sunglasses cases and under them is a flask
with rakja. He thinks today
is his lucky day, he will get some good money selling the sunglasses and will
celebrate with a drink. What the poor thief does not yet know is that one
of the cases is empty because Gabi prefers to put his glasses in his pocket so
later he can lose or squash them. What he also doesn´t know is that the other
case contains patches and glue for punctures and that the flask was a gift that
we have already enjoyed. When we return from a visit to the Orthodox
monastery and evaluate our losses we only regret the loss of the gift (it takes
us two weeks to realize that we are missing the cases). The Berbers say
that if anybody takes something that is not theirs one shouldn`t blame the
thief, but the former owner for not having been more responsible with his
possessions.
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