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First Snow

First Snow

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.”
 Andrew Wyeth 
 
I saw snow for the first time in 2001 in Vancouver. I awoke one morning to find a much whiter world than the night before and the tiny feathery flakes were still falling. You’d have thought all my Christmases had come at once. I was the total stereotype: I frolicked, I made snow angels, had a snowball fight with my cousin and I’m pretty certain I was giggling the whole time.

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Posted on Oct 29, 2010 in Canada, Cold Places, North America by 0 Comments

‘The Good Tea Place’ Cesky Krumlov

‘The Good Tea Place’ Cesky Krumlov

 

With their subdued ambience, low lighting and casual atmosphere the culture of tea houses in the Czech Republic is something else and Dobra Cajovna is tea house like no other I have found.

The Dobra chain of teahouses has branches all over the Czech Republic but my favourite is the one in the medieval town of Cesky Krumlov. Read more

Posted on Sep 27, 2010 in Czech Republic, Europe, Food by 0 Comments