Heimat - Home, that's not only a place, not only a piece of earth. Heimat - that are emotions, impressions, your family, friends or simple the place where you feel home.

 

Do you know this moments, where you notice the smell again, the same smell was in your grandparent's cellar. Do you remeber the sounds of your childhood. No, i don't mean the screaming of your young sister or the shouting of your teacher, i mean the noice of passing trains form the remote railway, the noise of the ring of the milkman, who came once a week.

The sight of the skyline of your hometown. A special taste of a meal, your mom prepared once?

 

In short, do you have a Heimat. A spiritual one? Or a concret? Is it possible, that you will feel homesick?

 

Please, tell us your emotions.

 

 

 

Southampton Old Docks, preferably, but they've been turned into a marina. London docks aren't docks any more. Le Havre was still good last time I was there.

 

Nothing like gettng on and off a boat as a regular foot passenger and maybe be able to sit in a bar or cafe and watch what's going on.

 

Or even just sit across the river and watch the liners going in and out.

 

Eheu fugaces.

 

 

I am in Nicosia now, i miss Istanbul; but when i am in Istanbul i miss Cyprus....

There is a good old saying in Russian for this situation; "Harasho tam gde nas njet" wich means "There is beautiful, where i am not"

I'm not an heimatluss but thats how i feel, maybe i have 2 heimat...

 

Personally I love to move around. Home in the spiritual sense is with friends, healthy living, good books and everything else that nourishes the soul. A location is just a backdrop to that, and it needs to be changed every once in a while or it gets too boring and predictable.