Glorious days...

...are coming. You can feel it in the air, as soon as small leaves pop like out of nowhere on those branches you look at every day.

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Normandy

Who thinks seaside is best seen when clouds, wind and some cold temperatures combine? I guess mostly no one, and that includes me, as tradition has it that we need sun, sun, sun (to have fun). :-) However, Normandy could not get it more easily with those three as they naturally come by default, so much that you could not imagine or want other way. Sun is there, behind the clouds, but who needs it anyway?

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North by north

Denmark and Sweden are nice. So nice that my Canon 350d photo camera suddenly decided to settle there for good. Goodbye dear Canon, and hello new Panasonic Lumix LX5. It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life and...all the rest :-)

p.s: did i say Denmark and Sweden are nice? I have the proof above to show it. And if someday, anyone in any corner of this world does find and sends some similar pictures taken with a Canon 350d, well, that would be the greatest thing in the world, wouldn't it?

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Waiting for Santa

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The far, far away

"If you think America is far away, than it is really further away than you can think of"! This is how i started my first email to friends and family, exactly 4 hours after i had landed for the first time in US via California. I was so tired after the trip, and everything around me seemed to be so strange and different than the European style (because yes, until now i could compare Romania with other European countries and find a lot of differences, but now even those appeared to be the same compared to US :-)). However, i could not put a finger on the things that made me feel this way, and after three weeks of living there, well, those feelings were totally gone, so i now make bigger efforts to remember them.

The main thing i felt about America is that everything was big. Arriving in Palo Alto, California, i could see big streets and houses not so close to each other. And then there were big cars, big food, big drinks, big everything. All those big spaces not being used (like for example in Europe where everything is crammed), together with jet lag that made me dizzy for some days created for my European self a general feeling on loneliness, similar to one an astronaut might get when setting foot on some empty far away planet. :-)

But then, there was San Francisco, with urban styles, tall buildings, cool streets, ocean view, fresh sea food you can eat on the go, the Golden Gate, hearing Pink Floyd while waiting for the nice tram that takes you up and down, beautiful views, and everything changed. :-)

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Spiral

"My new Hypothesis: If we're built from Spirals while living in a giant Spiral, then is it possible that everything we put our hands to is infused with the Spiral?"

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Berlin

If you ask me, Berlin sells communism in every way it possibly can, and how could this not happen with all that history going around and still present in the air? Otherwise, cultural events may be so overwhelming in quantity, that i did seriously consider living there. If only it weren't for the German weather...

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