more a shared apartment. Because having
reached your thirties, you didn't want to
continue living in a student dorm. Although,
not many were still studying, except a few
new youngsters. Many had graduated or
were living like me, as a drop-out (aussteiger).
So night owl Sophie, art connoisseur Kuno,
barfly Branko and me, Drückeberger Jupp,
had responded to an ad for a four bedroom
apartment in Neu-Ulm.
Although it wasn't cheap we rented the house,
especially since there was a bathtub and we
were used to share two showers with fourteen
residents. In the first week we lived there,
we immediately had a fight with the neighbors
below, about the volume of our music. So we
ended up with a star in one of our windows
because they shot with an air rifle at us.
The Turkish neighbor on the left meant to
protect us with a large knife from Branko's
compatriots who came for a late night drink.
We could hardly stop him. That was the time
that Wolfgang came up with that trip to Israel.
Wolfgang was a friend of Kuno and now the
boyfriend of Kuno's ex-girlfriend Monica,
an art historian. The three of them were
planning to start a travelling agency
specialized in art trips.
