Gondolas at rest; where are the Gondoliers?
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Am I missing more snow?
I could not be further from the picture I took of snow falling in Willy Brandt platz in Frankfurt. I live just around the corner from this fountain but the beautiful heavy snow fall of just a few weeks ago seems like an eternity ago.
I sit in humid heat on the Gold Coast just south of Brisbane which suffered heavy floods recently. People are without homes, parts of the city along with Towoomba and Ipswich are unrecognisable. Insurance companies are giving people a hard time and trying to do everything they can to not compensate the flood victims who took out policies with them. Revoke their insurance licences I say ! A tropical cyclone is due to hit the north coast of Queensland tomorrow and people are already evacuating towns such as Cairns, Mackay and Innisfail. This state has suffered enough. To complete the story, I am here for the funeral of my beloved Father in law, grieving while jet lagged is not recommended.
All I can do is wonder if I am missing more snow, and remember that just a few weeks ago life was beautiful, hence the sometimes in the title of my blog. My father in law was a great man, of a different era, strong, resilient and understood the importance of living , that pleasure could be intense but brief, that one should always eat cake with coffee at 4pm, because small pleasures made life beautiful. That one had to work hard and make their own luck in life. He was a brick layer and proud of it
May my father in law rest in peace and may the resilient Queenslanders continue to display strength and courage.
t-cat x
I sit in humid heat on the Gold Coast just south of Brisbane which suffered heavy floods recently. People are without homes, parts of the city along with Towoomba and Ipswich are unrecognisable. Insurance companies are giving people a hard time and trying to do everything they can to not compensate the flood victims who took out policies with them. Revoke their insurance licences I say ! A tropical cyclone is due to hit the north coast of Queensland tomorrow and people are already evacuating towns such as Cairns, Mackay and Innisfail. This state has suffered enough. To complete the story, I am here for the funeral of my beloved Father in law, grieving while jet lagged is not recommended.
All I can do is wonder if I am missing more snow, and remember that just a few weeks ago life was beautiful, hence the sometimes in the title of my blog. My father in law was a great man, of a different era, strong, resilient and understood the importance of living , that pleasure could be intense but brief, that one should always eat cake with coffee at 4pm, because small pleasures made life beautiful. That one had to work hard and make their own luck in life. He was a brick layer and proud of it
May my father in law rest in peace and may the resilient Queenslanders continue to display strength and courage.
t-cat x
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Chocolate Stiletto
Chocolate Stiletto, tre Magnifique - and only in Paris!
Life is indeed beautiful sometimes
tcat x
Life is indeed beautiful sometimes
tcat x
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Tomorrow I return......
Tomorrow I return to Paris....for fivedays.....so excited I can barely sleep.
My train leaves Frankfurt at 1 pm and arrive sometime before 5 pm, just in time for dinner. (Where will we go...the choices, I am dreaming about Parisian bistros! )
Tomorrow I travel with a wonderful friend and we are joined by two more friends Saturday morning. (Sadly) they return to Frankfurt on Sunday night, leaving me alone in Paris until Tuesday evening.......
Life is beautiful sometimes...
t cat x
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Beautiful and broody Dresden;this city broods a bit, but it is entitled too.
Its been all too long.....travels to Australia, friends staying with me, showing them around Germany, but last weekend I achieved something I have been wanting to do for a very long time; I saw Dresden! Once the beautiful capital of Saxony, known for its culture and of course Porcellain, it was completely destroyed by air raids. It lay neglected for decades under the Communists.
Such a tribute to the Reunification of Germany, Dresden is once again resembling the beautiful baroque jewel it once was. Walking the streets, looking up at the dome of the Frauenkirche which took 16 years to rebuild, gazing upon the Zwinger palace and crossing the Elbe to glance back at the startling, stunning rebuilt skyline it is hard to hold back the tears....a tribute to humanity...Dresden...life is beautiful sometimes...
t-cat x
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