Kraftwerk: I Was a Robot by Wolfgang Flür

Author:Wolfgang Flür [Неизв.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vearsa
Published: 2017-05-05T21:00:00+00:00

29 In Budapest

A Love Nest

BUDAPEST, 13 AUGUST 1981

We arrived at Budapest on the day before our concerts were scheduled to start, and so we had some time to relax a little and go exploring. I quickly fell under the spell of the old city on the Danube, which left a romantic impression on me like almost no other town. Budapest is unlike Vienna or Prague. It’s much more mysterious and inscrutable, and has a debilitated elegance, and my heart burst with love for it.

The organisers of the tour had pulled out all the stops to ensure that we felt comfortable, and had booked us into the historical Hotel Gellert on the left bank of the Danube, under the castle. Despite the afternoon heat, I went strolling through the narrow lanes and ancient squares of the old town, and became increasingly captivated. The reddish light of the August day matched my own idealistic picture of Hungary. We were scheduled to give two concerts over the next two nights at the Kiss Stadium, a sports ground situated in the middle of the forest, but there was still enough time to relax in the hotel, which had a classical 19th-century hot-tub. You could really relax there – we’d been on our world tour for three months, and it was pure, blissful relief to take a sauna, indulge in a massage and swim in natural spa waters. The huge stone, domed halls with ceilings supported by high, polished marble pillars provided a cool and elegant ambience for people who came from all over Europe seeking refreshment. We’d already experienced a lot, but I felt so comfortable that I could have gladly stayed there for a fortnight.

On the first evening, I was coming out of the baths with one of the hotel’s terrycloth towels under my arm when I saw Erwin, our driver, sitting in the tour bus, parked directly in front of the hotel with the doors open because of the heat. When he saw me, he waved at me excitedly. I climbed up onto the driver’s seat through the front door and asked what was going on, and he told me that there was someone waiting for me. I walked down to the back of the bus and saw a slender girl sitting on one of the back seats. She looked very young, and had big blue eyes and golden hair that was combed back and knotted together, with a single blonde strand hanging down her forehead. Erwin told me that she’d been waiting for me in the bus for the whole afternoon and couldn’t speak a word of German or English, but she had repeated my name again and again. I went to her and saw that she was trembling. She gazed at me with clear, innocent eyes, and it was almost unbearable. What a delicate creature! My God, I thought, what beauty there can be in the world. And she was waiting for me! I introduced myself, and she nodded eagerly, relieved.

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