Into the wild
That's exactly how I felt going there.......so peaceful, silent, majestic........... the only sound was made by our bikes.....
Me and two friends on the snow left from winter
The "men" in the same spot
The entire group (minus me, the authorized photographer)
We had the time to visit some little villages in the area such as Paganica
and Castel del Monte,
to relax a bit on the banks of the Campotosto lake,
and to enjoy a real "country" meal in a typical rural butchery
where our chefs in charge took pride in cooking us the meal
in a fantastic landscape
Too pity three days are so fast to pass, I still have in my eyes and in my soul, the smells and the colors of a beautiful land.
Me and two friends on the snow left from winter
The "men" in the same spot
The entire group (minus me, the authorized photographer)
We had the time to visit some little villages in the area such as Paganica
and Castel del Monte,
to relax a bit on the banks of the Campotosto lake,
and to enjoy a real "country" meal in a typical rural butchery
where our chefs in charge took pride in cooking us the meal
in a fantastic landscape
Too pity three days are so fast to pass, I still have in my eyes and in my soul, the smells and the colors of a beautiful land.
Alicante, Spain
El Teide, Canary Islands
Waldhausen, Austria
L'Ile de Ouessant, France
Egeskov, Denmark
Cornwall, England
Ring of Kerry, Ireland
Mont-St.Michel, France
Arles, France
Verdon, France
Les Vosges, France
Bruges, Belguim
Waterloo, Belgium
Monaco, Germany
Koblenz, Germany
That's how I felt this morning going back at work after a very nice weekend in Venice, and two days off work! Plus, there's so much going on here, and I don't want to miss a thing, and this is a little distressing.
is my favourite month of the year, coz it's the time I usually go on vacation!
for the second time. First one was in 2003, and we made a tour of the 
Ireland, a novel - by Frank Delaney: BBC reporter Delaney's fictionalized history of his native country, an Irish bestseller, is a sprawling, riveting read, a book of stories melding into a novel wrapped up in an Irish history text. In 1951, when Ronan O'Mara is nine, he meets the aging itinerant Storyteller, who emerges out a "silver veil" of Irish mist, hoping to trade a yarn for a hot meal. Welcomed inside, the Storyteller lights his pipe and begins, telling of the architect of Newgrange, who built "a marvelous, immortal structure... before Stonehenge in England, before the pyramids of Egypt," and the dentally challenged King Conor of Ulster, who tried, and failed, to outsmart his wife. The stories utterly captivate the young Ronan ("This is the best thing that ever, ever happened"), and they'll draw readers in, too, with their warriors and kings, drinkers and devils, all rendered cleanly and without undue sentimentality. When Ronan's mother banishes the Storyteller for telling a blasphemous tale, Ronan vows to find him. He also becomes fascinated by Irish myth and legend, and, as the years pass, he discovers his own gift for storytelling. Eventually, he sets off, traversing Ireland on foot to find his mentor. Past and present weave together as Delaney entwines the lives of the Storyteller and Ronan in this rich and satisfying book.
Another kind of life - by Catherine Dunne: Perceptive, absorbing and beautifully told, Another Kind of Life is an unforgettable portrait of a family, and of Ireland, which will stay with the reader long after the last page. Hannah, May and Eleanor are sisters whose early life in Dublin with their middle class parents, has prepared them for a comfortable future of marriage, children and servants. Further north, Mary and Cecilia are also sisters, struggling to make a living in the linen mills of Belfast amid rising political tension. The lives of all the sisters are destined to unfold in ways that none of them could have imagined and Another Kind of Life is the intricately crafted tale of how their lives entwine, against the backdrop of the rapidly changing Ireland of the late 19th century.In her eagerly awaited new novel Catherine Dunne returns to the themes of family ties, love and loyalty which she has delineated so finely in her earlier work but this time she opens out her canvas to tell us a much wider story.
