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Saarburg A City Full Of Unpredictable Beauty And Strange Surprises – YouTube

A place worth of your time.

Always Seeking New Landscapes

Tiger & Turtle Magic Mountain On New Year’s Eve – YouTube

Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least. Click the link and explore this one-of-a-kind experience with me.

A Magical Christmas Experience In Bruges

A Magical Christmas Experience In Bruges – YouTube

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Click on the link to explore with me the magic of Christmas in Bruges.

The best present one can hope for this year is to spend time together.

Walking Around Aachen Christmas Market Yesterday – YouTube

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us. I am grateful for what I have. Click the link to explore Aachen’s Christmas Market with me.

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Christmas Walk Tournai Wonderful Architecture Fantastic Ambiance – YouTube

Wishing you a holiday season filled with joy and light. May your life be showered in bliss and enfolded in unconditional love. Join me for a walk around a city with stunning architecture, rich in cultural heritage and atmospheric ambiance. Click the link above and let’s get lost in a holiday mood full of delightful surprises.

A Magical Moment

Traveling And Visiting Saint-Hubert At The Crack Of Dawn – YouTube

Click the link and share with us a magical moment driving early in the morning to visit a house we wanted to buy in the country. With the frost on the ground covering the landscapes with a blanket of white, the air so crisp and the sun just peeping above the horizon… it was something to remember.

It’s that time of year again… Hello December.

Somewhere Beyond There Is Christmas

The spirit of Christmas is about giving – not only gifts (which are symbolic) but a helping hand to all who need it – this is what Christmas is all about.

December Once More

It’s the jingle in the bells, the carols in the air,
The nipping spirits counting down the days.

Prison Without Bars

I am running out of ideas on how to entertain myself during Corona Lockdown.

I am used to self- imposed quarantine. I could go on for years without talking to anyone. That’s not the problem. The trouble is my world suddenly becomes smaller.

How long you could run around the neighborhood and be still in awe of what you see?

I love nature. But believe you me, no matter how great that love is, if I see another river, another poor excuse for waterfalls, another forest, another mountain tops,  I would scream till I have no voice anymore left out of sheer frustration.

How many versions of those one could take without being bored to death?

Trees are just trees and water is just water no matter from which angle you view them.

I could understand that the same rules apply if you go further abroad but that is not the point. Ever heard of the journey being more important than the destination? That is not the problem either. The problem is the journey on a familiar road going to an even more familiar destination is becoming tedious it drives me crazy.

I want to explore new horizons, do new things, see unknown whatever. Anywhere but here for crying out loud.

I want to see trees and water and rocks on foreign soil. Observe unfamiliar cultures. I want to taste and try new dishes, I want to experience life again!

But life would never be the same again. I see it now. By all means, as long as I can run around out there without restrictions, free as before then I’m okay. I don’t even have to talk to people. I just want to go places that’s all.

Ghost Of Christmas Present

The threat of Christmas hung in the air, visible already in the fretful look of passersby as they readied themselves for the meaningless but necessary rites of false jovialities and ill-considered gifts. – Peter Dickinson

For three years in a row now, I failed to decorate for the holiday season. What’s the use? No one will come to visit, we are not going anywhere, I don’t feel the spirit of Christmas, so why bother?

I don’t even believe in God anymore. So, why should I celebrate his supposed birthday? Too much ‘ado about nothing. If I have one single reason why should I decorate, I would probably do some effort. But I have none. Not anymore.

It used to be different. Before, I will put up Christmas decorations on the first of December and let them hang till after the 6th of January. In my country of birth, we celebrate the longest Christmas celebration in the world, starting in September and will last until January or even February. In my current situation and location that would be outright ridiculous not to mention tiring.

A lot of things happened since then. Too much to even mention. Let’s just say I am not in a festive mood these days.

July Once Again

But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter. ― Joanna Franklin Bell

Valentine’s Day – The Poet’s Holiday

Let’s hear it from Ernest Hemingway

“If my Valentine you won’t be,
I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree.”

How’s that for emotional blackmail?