Category: culture and art
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Snowfall and Olympia
in the early hours of the day after a night’s snowfall and the traffic noise is muffed geometries and shapes look new and the tonal symmetry of the ground and the sky offer exceptional compositional settings.
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Freyburg and the northernmost wineries
eaving aside superlatives, Freyburg offers an out-of-the-crowd visit to a wine region with surprising views and very enjoyable wines. Free horses and flower gardens settled in disused old East-Germany-Era army training grounds
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the lake and a game of Kubb
Sunday on a mid July afternoon at the see, friends, a game of Kub, laughter, competitiveness, teasing, focusing on the marks, joy, excitement.
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Neuhausen and Gewofag
Old chained bicycles likely made to be here, waiting for the artist to come down her atelier with her apron still on and take a ride to the café.
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the old tracks and the resettlement
wagons once threaded this plain and filled the night with echos of metallic giggle, where now nature and new settlers walk still puzzled around.
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the colours and the cave of light
grab a blanket, push the curtain aside, enter into the darkness of a cave of light and color, lay anywhere, listen, see, think, sleep.
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in and out of Barcelona
a newly painted steam locomotive sitting on a section of old rack railroad exibits what travelling to the sanctuary of Montserrat was in the 19th Century.
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two days in Valencia
Along the streets of Valencia you can see the gothic, renaissance, baroque, neoclassic, modernist, bauhaus, constructivism, brutalism, and… well Calatrava
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Tarragona and a look back
here I look back almost 50 years at the same streets, houses and windows of Tarragona were I grew up. The little park-inside-a-roundabout.
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the old town and the townspeople gone
Cesky Krumlov, jewel of European Renaissance, abandoned in the 20th Century, and turned asian tourism Mecca, struggles to redefine its “raison d’être”.
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