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Greta Salome Bollig: »Now, due to Corona, I have less contact with the passengers.
I miss that. "
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I've been going through the pandemic for a few months now, but I have to say I was never really scared.
Once a woman was sitting in the front who was coughing all the time, so I had a slightly queasy feeling.
But I am a person who is actually never sick.
I go out, run, even in ice and snow.
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Greta Salome Bollig,
61, Hamburg, is a bus driver and music lover.
In the first shutdown, she logged on to Twitter and followed the house concerts of the pianist Igor Levit.
It was sometimes more difficult in private.
I haven't seen my daughters since January, they're studying in London.
I've been separated from my family since 2015, and sometimes I felt so alone that I cried for loneliness while running.
I also needed a new job because I had previously written for a running magazine, which I had to give up.
I asked myself: what could I do then?
Airport?
In the Elphi?
I decided to take the bus because I have colleagues there who come from different countries.
At the age of 57, I started training again.
I had never driven a bus before, but today there are passengers who say I drive smoothly.
My favorite line was the 36, from Blankenese to Berner Heerweg, Elbe to the city center, but unfortunately it no longer exists.
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