Costa Brava Greetings

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Our time oat the Costa Brava was simply amazing. We saw so much, enjoyed the tranquility of our small holiday resort Calella de Palafrugell, explored, hiked, relaxed, and feasted.

If Once You Have Slept on an Island 

 

If once you have slept on an island 

You’ll never be quite the same; 

You may look as you looked the day before 

And go by the same old name, 

You may bustle about in street and shop; 

You may sit at home and sew, 

But you’ll see blue water and wheeling gulls 

Wherever your feet may go. 

 

You may chat with the neighbors of this and that 

And close to your fire keep, 

But you’ll hear ship whistle and lighthouse bell 

And tides beat through your sleep. 

Oh, you won’t know why, and you can’t say how 

Such change upon you came, 

But – once you have slept on an island

You’ll never be quite the same! 

 

Rachel Field (1894–1942)

As you can probably imagine, I took hundreds of pictures. So, there will be one or two in-depth reports in the coming years. Now, as always, I need to let the impressions sink in, get back home, and get back to everyday life, strengthened and motivated.

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Southern Corners 31 - Where the Summer stays longer

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“Our one wish is that Summer never ends!” 

– Paul Dini 

Calella de Palafrugell, Costa Brava - Catalunya, Spain,  is a place like a dream with its picturesque flair which only small fisher villages have. Maybe in the hot month of July and August, it's busier, but in the pre-and, after seasons it's like heaven on earth.



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southern corners 15 - where the summer lives

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“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Calella de Palafrugell, Costa Brava - Catalunya, Spain,  is a place like a dream with its picturesque flair which only small fisher villages have. Maybe in the hot month of July and August, it's busier, but in the pre- and after season it's like heaven on earth.



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Southern Corners 11 - Time machine

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"We all have our time machines.  Some take us back, 
they're called memories.  Some take us forward, 
they're called dreams."

-   Jeremy Irons

Calella de Palafrugell is one of the most attractive towns on the Costa Brava coast.  It sits on a picturesque, rocky part of the coast and the shoreline is hugged by the whitewashed villas and houses that make up the town.

The beaches are small and sandy and next to these is a string of lovely bars and restaurants linked in parts by a wooden walkway - perfect for relaxing from a hard days's sunbathing.

Each beach is seperated by the rocky coastline from the next and so as you walk along you get to a number of small sheltered bays each with a pretty, small beach. It really is lovely. The main beaches have showers and life-guards.

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Study the past - 2018

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- January 2018 

Time for a serene and peaceful winter walk around the lakes of Meißendorf and Bannetze Moor. It's a nature reserve and bird reserve of national importance on the edge of the Lüneburg Heath in the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. And if you'd luck you got some wonderful misty impressions.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

- Confucius

- February 2018 

Lower Saxony is certainly one of the best regions to visit because it combines wonderfully varied scenery with fascinating towns and cities and great cultural heritage. So the Wienhausen Abbey, founded 1233. And although you can not visit the monastery from the inside during the winter months, is a walk around the gorgeous buildings and through the lovely little park and village just sublime.

- March 2018 

In this march it was really time for some seaside days and so we visit Sylt again. It's the largest North Frisian island and a real popular destination for fine food and water sports. Located at Schleswig-Holstein's North Sea coast.

- April 2018 

Nature and Garden awakes with fresh green, thousands of tiny flowers and I enjoy spending first afternoons with gardening and my cats outdoor.

- May 2018

In May we've visited after 14 years abstinence one of our all time love points MENORCA.  Fine white sand, the sea an almost-unbelievable shade of turquoise, and the prettiest scenery - Menorca's beaches are often compared to the Caribbean, and yet they're so close to home. These are the most beautiful of them all. Here you can see the little but very lovely beach Cala Alcaufar.

- June 2018
  
Best month to enjoy all this work done at our garden is June, all the roses (and there are a lot of roses at our garden) are in full bloom - every year again it's absolutely breathtaking and I feel so blessed for this chance in life to plan a garden by myself and to enjoy all its ups and downs. Our cottage garden is now 16 years old and looks exactly like in my dreams. And painting outside, inspired by all these lovely flowers around me is overwhelming and one of my favorite activities during this long days and lightful summer evenings.

- July 2018 

Summer 2018 was an endless time of sunny days. It's so fantastic to enjoy some of our wonderfully beautiful lakes nearby at the Lueneburger Heide, Lower Saxony - Germany. Peaceful places, great nature and absolutely silence.

- August 2018 

2018 is always a holiday month mostly at the North Sea coast aroung St. Peter-Ording and this year we visit one day the Viking Museum Haithabu. It's one of the most important archaeological museums in Germany. The UNESCO has nominated the Viking Age trading venue and the Danewerk border building as world cultural heritage this year. Both the museum and the seven reconstructed houses located on the grounds show impressively how people live there during the Early Middle Ages.

- September 2018 

This was a longtime wish and now it comes true, I'd the possibility to take a watercolor workshop  with Joseph Zbukvic and EPC Art Courses at Girona and Costa Brava.This was a plein air excursion to unique and awesome little village of Calellja de Palafrugell.

- October 2018 

With great steps Autumn comes around the corner, so it's time for planning a new Fine-Art-Snail Calendar with my little model friends.

- November 2018

Visiting the Dwarf beech (Fagus sylvatica var. Suentelensis) avenue, Bad Nenndorf, Lower Saxony, Germany was a longtime wish and finally I've done it. See my post about this visit: Autumn at Middle Earth

- December 2018 

This year December was a very calm and relaxing month, with much time to enjoy the wonderful Christmas Holidays with delicious food, good friends and family dinners and much time to spend in my studio. Starting new series and some nice seasonal paintings.

I'm so grateful for this marvelous year full of unforgettable moments and I hope that you enjoy this review as much as I do. 

All my best wishes for 2019 dear friend. 

Hugs and Kisses

yours isabella 

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Calella de Palafrugell

aus der zeit fallen

ganz egal wohin

hauptsache 

zeit

spielt dort 

keine rolle 

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falling out of time

no matter where

mainly

time

there plays

not matter

veredit©isabella.kramer

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All these images are taken during a wonderful watercolor workshop with  EPC Art Courses and one day we've had a trip to this breathtaking location - Calella de Palafrugel, located at the Costa Brava - Spain. 

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Southern Corners 1 - l'hora blava - the blue hour

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Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. 

L. Frank Baum

Last weekend at Cadaqués - Costa Brava, Catalunya where I've absolved a gorgeous Watercolor Workshop at Girona, with two trips included and this awesome location was one of them.



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