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 Sweet little angel is 8months old.. she was visiting for 3 weeks..

The trip was amazing.. we saw so many wonderful things.. for some I don’t even have words to describe.. met so many nice people with whom I very much hope to stay in touch…

Alex is visiting Angkor.. I am a little bit envious.. ok, I admit, more than a little bit.. but I shall see the pictures..

I will come back with more pictures and more stories..

siya…

hi there!

Anti, this is  for you, as I did not reach you before you left…  :)

* wedding in Kärnten (22.08)  + some hiking and stuff

* flight to Bkk and country jumping for the next 3to 6 weeks … see post-cards

kisses to the rest and see you not sooo sooooon this time…

We got this flight from Alex’s colleagues. I thought it a bad idea, as Alex is afraid of altitude but he managed well, it was me who for the endless length of 10 minutes at an altitude of over 1000m asl  was a whimp. I realized that the sentece “we all must die one day” hat a different inflexion and that it was only technique and God’s mercy who allowed me to be there and enjoy the magnificent views, the softness of the wind and the warmth of the setting sun… it was life in all that.. life below and life above, there was no darkness, no need to fear… and I was happy.. happy to be there and happy to be alive and to know that! I am still wondering where the fear went after leaving me?!

Alex managed well,  he was enjoying it, even while feeling strange, maybe he is cured now.. anyway, we loved it and are grateful for this experince.

Vive l’ALM!

This year’s trip to Attila’s estate combined with a short visit to Budapest.

I have been several times in Budapest, but didn’t  really ”see” it in the proper sense of the word.. Veeeeery nice place… the best we have seen this time was the Szépmüvészeti Museum which treasures amazing pictures.. 9 El Grecos!!! (he’s most beautiful Madonna is there!!!) Da Vinci, Fra Angelico, Ignes, Masegna, Ribera, Zurbaran, Velasquez, Botticelli.. well, I shall stop… and the architecture of the building itself! well… I can state it here: “we will be back!”

Wonderful little angel is 6months old! The soul of her mother and the pride of her god-mother!

You can read Spain’s history on the walls and streets of Toledo…

The massive buildings and bridges, the Alcázar, fortifications of any kind telling of the blood shed over the many centuries of its existence. The Romans where the first to see the strategical position of Toletum and started building houses, tempels, roads… there is little left from this period.. also little left from the Vizigot buildings and churches.. Did you know that not the Arabs but the Romans where the first to build the patios? but they where sure the first to “adorne” them with fontaines of different sizes and with amazingly smelling plants…

After seeing Cordoba and Granada last year, Toledo didn’t impress  me to the bones, but it gave me the same warm feeling… I love the Mudéjar style and I love to see places and to know that there people of different religions could live and florish together… the Sinagoge Maria la Blanca is a testimony!

With so much historical stones, so much immortality in iron and brickwork, the ephemeral figure of Toledo is almost human… still, it is beyond time… its shape is a concession and a defiance to life and death, a  monument to short-lived things.