[Photo Diary] Let There Be Some Glamour

[Photo Diary] Spain Streetlife

Slightly exhausted after holidays and a chaotic first day of work. Below some snapshots from (mainly) Zaragoza. 

[Photo Diary] Colourful Inspiration Now

Colours of Autumn

Finnish Rye Bread: Also Available in Sweden 

New Life 

Always In the Baltic Countries: Looking for Russian Language Resources. And Cake. 

Travel & Coffee @ Vilnius Airport

Fitness At Home

[Photo Diary][Valokuvatorstai] Az ősz [HU: The Autumn)

Szeretem az őszt.

Valokuvatorstain tämän viikon haaste (#340) perustuu Antti Kokkosen ottamaan syyskuvaan, Minulla on itselläni kova syysinspis päällä. Jotenkin tämä vuodenaika tuo mieleen rakastamani Unkarin ja Keski-Euroopan. Kuvat on tosiaan otettu ihan vain Tukholman alueelta.

Syksyn parhaisiin kuuluu värien ja sen tietyn synkeyden symbioosi. Vuosi kulkee kohti loppuaan ja samalla luonto menee unten maille, kuitenkin maailma on täynnä hiljaista toivoa.

[Photo Diary] Lovely, Lovely Vilnius!

Clouds and Colours, Colours and Clouds

Bomarsund

View over the Baltic Sea

Cloudberries

Berries

Frozen Mojito

Buďte šťastní! [SK: Be Happy!]

This photo, in all its simplicity, makes me happy, reminding me that despite all, things flourish and bloom. 

Lists.

 

There is a list I borrowed from thesadbox. In order to be a bit bit inventive, I have also added some pictures from Belgrade.

 

10 things that I like:

• sitting in a bar with interesting people, sipping on wine and hear the words flow.
• that moment when one realizes something big.
• coffee in the morning.
• Slavic languages.  
• books.
• lazy breakfasts in the sun.
• cuddling.
• laughter.
• the feeling during and after a good workout.
• politics.

9 things that I like less:

•   Ignorance.
• People who try to force their opinions on you.
• That feeling of not being enough, and sometimes the feeling of being a complete failure.
• Stress.
• Meat without veggies.
• Snow.
• Violence.
• Differing between people and people.
• Boasting.

8 blogs I read (I don’t read so many blogs these days…):

• The sadbox
• Fluent Historian
• Smedette
•  Hunny Minxy
• Vatsassa perhosia
• etc.

7 things I want to do in the future:

• own a library – because there is nothing better than books
• run far
• be happy
• analyse more, learn more, study more
• travel
• write – try to find my creative streak
• wear more yellow – why not?
  

6 things I’m afraid of:

• cows
• peacocks
• the way the world is heading
• that something will happen to my family and those I care about.
• nothing more.
  
  

 

5 places I like to be at

• walking in the street
• pubs and bars and coffee shops
• libraries and anywhere I can find a book
• in foreign lands
• wherever my friends are

 4 words that describe me

• cheerful
• optimist
• fair
• clumsy

 

3 things I’m looking forward to

• our trip to Budapest next weekend and all other trips we will do
• improving my language skills
• the summer holidays

 

2 good films: (I’m terrible at films)
- blank

1 good song:

 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas!

Chocolate, Coca Cola & Cheese–Do All Good Things In Life Begin With C?

Random thoughts. Nothing much has been on my mind lately. Or, well. There has, but very few of those thoughts actually make sense. They are just bits and pieces of some greater context that is still hidden somewhere among the myriad of other contexts lost deep down inside.

• How “fluent” could one (yours truly) become in a foreign language (Slovak) in say, two months? At the moment I have reached a very impressive stage: when accidentally bumping into a neighbour in the elevator, I don’t start screaming, I say “ahoj”. If I’m having a good day, I may even be able to mumble “dobre rano"/”dobry den"/”dobry vecer” (including funny figures on letters). It can’t be very difficult to become more fluent than that. For some strange reason Slovak children like saying “ahoj” to me a lot. Maybe they are interested in aliens?
• Christmas is coming and the evil people at the supermarkets are trying to force us, poor sods, to buy loads of chocolate through some very clever strategic planning. There is no such thing as free will when chocolate is concerned.
• Certain adjectives should be banned. Entirely. People spend too much time trying to live up to some certain adjective (which in this case may describe a norm or an ideal state), which, at the end of the day, is complete waste of time. Unless you plan on becoming delightful, life won’t change much anyway.
• Some foreign films have Czech subtitles in Slovakia. The funniest letter in the Czech alphabet is ů.

• Everyone should try to move abroad at least once in their life. The greatest lesson is that the myth of starting anew will be broken. No matter where we are and what we do, our selves will remain the same. A new place can offer us new friends and acquaintances, new experiences. These might influence us, but we are still the same as we have always been. In the best of cases, we will be challenged to be a little bit braver, a little bit better.
• Maybe the greatest thing that can be given to another person, apart from love, is understanding and the knowledge that no matter what they are going through, they are not alone. Life ties us into knots sometimes, that’s when we need a kind soul to help with the unknotting.