Melbourne – Part One
Arriving in Melbourne for the first of our three Australian Home Exchanges.
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Down Under – The Series
Beginning our epic journey of five consecutive home exchanges in Australia and China.
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Die Pinakothek der Moderne is supersized eye-candy and it contains some pretty impressive works of art too. It is the newest of three world renown Pinakotheken in München, Germany, hence its local nickname “Dritte”, the third. The German term Pinakothek is of Greek origin meaning literally storehouse [formative element: thek] of painted tablets [pinax, genitive case: pinakos], […]
Read more "The Third"Electronic Lunacy
In large part thanks to the aid of automated translators, I routinely write emails or post on Facebook in either English, German, French or Spanish, with a smidgen Italian thrown in now and then. I’m only fluent in two of those languages, happily guessing my way through the others, killing grammar right and left as […]
Read more "Electronic Lunacy"Heidelberg – adieu
Our last week in Heidelberg simply flew by, thus our visit to this charming town sadly has come to an end. From our apartment in the “posh” (as a friend and long-time resident of Heidelberg called it) neighborhood of Neuenheim, north of the river Neckar, we explored the Altstadt, the Old Town on the left bank, […]
Read more "Heidelberg – adieu"Sky above Clouds – my version
I have loved the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe for a long time. While we lived in Chicago I was a member of the Art Institute and I dropped in several times a week to sit in front of my favorite, The Black Place. Another one of her paintings exhibited at the Art Institute was more of […]
Read more "Sky above Clouds – my version"Bemeddled Musing
In a day and a half or near then, we shall be on one of four flights needed to take us from our home to our home. From the nightly view above, to its partner below. In Saintes the plane trees will be bare now, the tourist boat safely in dry dock till the following […]
Read more "Bemeddled Musing"Pictures of the American West – April 2009 at 4Corners
A fabulous road trip to the American West.
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NOT IN A STRAIGHT LINE by Photolera Claudinha 