Crowded tram on Sunday. A blue-eyed blond girl is playing with a thin pink scarf. She wraps it around her head and puts it over her face, leaving only her eyes – as if she is wearing hijab. Her father, sitting on the opposite seat, waves to her: “can...

I am trying to revive my good old habit of taking a walk in the evening. There is a nice route that I have already taken several times – first I follow an almost straight sequence of streets from my place to the square with the City Hall - this takes...