“I don’t think I’ve drunk enough beer to understand that.” Terry Pratchett 50 minutes seemed like a few seconds on the plane yesterday. Geneva to Munich in less than one hour. I didn’t have enough time to realise we had taken off and we were already landing in Germany. In Munich for the first time…
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JUMP INTO THE PAST
“I admired then, on the bottom of the water filling the port, a certain quantity of squared tombs almost all without their covers…” Emmanuele Mola I’ve always found archeological sites fascinating. The first one I visited was the Acropolis in Athens. I was 8 years old and felt so small in front of the Parthenon….
WALK UNDER THE STARS
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” Vincent Van Gogh Gradually the darkness invaded the sky. The hot afternoon sun slowly hid beneath the horizon line separating the sea from the sky. As the sunlight slowly diminished the stars became to shine. A beautiful…
CHILDHOOD DREAM
“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.” Michel Onfray The birds are singing again, another day is rising. The sunlight slowly penetrates through the window that was accidentally left a bit open yesterday evening. The cotton sheets caress my skin and I’m not quite sure…
LET THE FUN BEGIN
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.“ Robert Orben Summer has started since a few months now even though its beginning seemed quite turbulent. Finally the sun came out the days got warmer and warmer as my routine got harder and harder. These pas few months have been…
VISIT IDEAS
“Someday, men will visit ideas instead of places.” Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut Beneath our feet. Beneath that solid ground that seems so important to us. That same ground on which we stand. Ground, Earth, Soil with which our feet are constantly in contact. Imagination runs wild thinking of the layers under my…
ART BASEL
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island Yesterday morning started as one of those days you just want to stay in bed under the soft sheets even if you are well awake and know something important is up. I finally managed…
Waking up…
Soft sheets rubbing on my body, I do not quite understand where I am exactly. I start to hear the cars in the street, a few of them, passing once in a while as if a traffic light was letting them go at a set time. Tic, tac, tic, tac… a clock is the other…
Praise of Folly 