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“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
―Elbert Hubbard
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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.
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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 - 46, Morro Jable Lighthouse
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Everyone who knows me knows that I have a huge weakness for lighthouses. And I don't know why, but I missed showing you this part of Fuerteventura with the snow white lighthouse of Jandia.
The Puerto del Morro Jable was built in the 1980s in order to connect Fuerteventura with the other Canary Islands. Get comfortable in a seashore restaurant, sip a coffee, and observe fishing and sport boats maneuvering around big ferries.
The Morro Jable Lighthouse came into service in 1996 and is still active today. It stands next to the beach and the salt marsh. It was conceived as a unique lighthouse, which should serve as a landmark and a reference in its surroundings, in the style of the old English lighthouses. Its height is 60 meters.
“The calming movement of the sea along with the restless ocean breeze gently caresses me creating a soothing trance which lulls me to a place of peace.”
– M. L. Borges
We haven't visited this south part of the island often and feel more at home in the middle and on the west coast.
More about "our" Fuerteventura travel you can find -> here
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Frühling auf Borkum
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Manchmal muss es eben Meer sein und wenn dann noch die Frühlingssonne dazukommt, ist eben alles perfekt. Genauso war es, als wir uns im März 2022 (es war noch in post Coronazeiten) und fernwehgeplagt und auf den Weg nach Borkum machten.
Und staunten nicht schlecht über tausende von Narzissen, gesprenkelt mit lauter niedlichen und durch und durch lebendigen Osterhäschen.
Hier ein Häschen...
und da ein Häschen!
Hach, Frühling am Meer ist einfach wundervoll!
Heiligenhafen - a room with a view
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Last year's August we spent a long weekend at Heiligenhafen, Baltic Sea. Our hotel room was a corner room with two large floor-to-ceiling windows and had a incredibly beautiful view.
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The hotel's name is Beach Motel and it's perfect for holiday on the coast, with the sea on your doorstep, a fresh breeze of Baltic Sea air around your nose - and all this in a relaxed, feel-good atmosphere.
Sundown watching was so, so beautiful. But sure, we leave our room for some wonderful dinners and walks.
Last light of a wonderful day at the sea at 21:26 PM.
"Happiness is not something ready-made.
It comes from your own actions."
– Dalai Lama
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Southern Corners - 45 the colors of Fuerteventura
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“To take a good rest in life time to time, you must know the ways to make yourself a remote island! An island no one can reach…”
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Okay, we aren't the only people on Fuerteventura, but it always feels a bit like this. I can't wait to see this beautiful island again.
More about our Fuerteventura travel you can find -> here
- H2O Thursday - Weekend reflections#215
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study the past 2024
- January 2024
On a cold winter day we made a visit at Lüneburg, where we'd lived some years long ago and visited the famous Monastery Lüneburg.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
- February 2024
I discovered some beautiful cat baskets on Instagram and reactivated my crotched skills. Coralie love her new created chilling places.
In March we spend some wonderful, cold, and windy days on the Frisian Island Sylt.
- April 2024
I never get tiered of this first view in the morning. Especially when Spring arrived.
I never get tiered of this first view in the morning. Especially when Spring arrived.
May is always one of the best months of the year for me. Nature is in full bloom; the temperatures are stabil higher again, it is my birthday month, asparagus season, and the first strawberries are growing on the fruit farms around us.
It was perfect weather for a garden photo shooting with or sweet neighbor girl Paula. We had so much fun together.
- Juli 2024
Juli brought a lot of rain and impressive skies.
- August 2024
The sea was calling and we loved to stay at Heiligenhafen, Baltic Sea. We had such a great room with a fantastic sea view day and night.
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- September 2024
We'd decided to spend some days on Sylt Island again and had a late summer fun some at the beach.
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For a long time, I had wished to discover more castles and palaces in Sachsen-Anhalt, so we visited the gorgeous water castle Flechtingen.
- November 2024
November brought early twilight, fog, rain, snow, and awesome sundowns.
- December 24
Fortunately, Christmas markets are back, and the one in our beautiful half-timbered town of Celle is considered one of the most enchanting in all of Northern Germany.
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 to 2025 dear friends. Thanks for your continuing interest, support and wonderful comments and inspiration.
Hugs and Kisses
your isabella
Skywatch Friday - Wordless Wednesday Image-in-Ing - My Corner of the World - Travel Tuesday - H2O-Tuesday
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washed out
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a poem
about a smile
summer
washed out
by the last
waves
veredit©isabella.kramer
veredit©isabella.kramer
awarded as a cherita lighthouse
first published by ai li. i hear (the cherita Book 65) (S.90). empty press 18.07.2022
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Southern Corners 42 - Viareggio, Tuscany - Italy
Viareggio
Pearl of the Tyrrhenian Sea
It is the foamy waves from the Tyrrhenian on one side and the stark white marble peaks of Massa Carrara on the other which give way for the nickname Pearl of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The access to the sea has always been one of the primary characteristics of Viareggio, causing most of its ups and downs throughout history. Today it reigns as the second largest city in the province of Lucca, and during the season of Carnival and the summer months, its population explodes with visitors far and wide who come to stay at one of the many hotels, tempted by the colors, the energy, the sandy beaches and the delectable menu of fish.
Initially built as the port to the city of Lucca, competing with that of Pisa, the town of Viareggio didn’t really grow into the definition of a full-fledged city until the 1800’s where it started to take on a more permanent and residential feel about it. There are a little over 10km of sandy beaches between the private and public areas in this town along the coast of the Versilia though most of the public beaches are within the beautiful Parco Naturale Regionale Migliarino-San Rossore-Massaciuccoli.
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the 20th century the first nucleus of the 3 km long “La Passeggiata”
began to take shape, a wide road running parallel to the beach decorated
with gelato stores, caffès and park benches in the “liberty style.”
This is still the place to stroll for good restaurants, sandy beaches
and local shopping. These were the very caffè that Giacomo Puccini would
sit at and it was also the very place where inventors of the Carnival -
Tuscany style met and dreamed up the idea of 4 weeks of floats and
customs!
One of the most captivating and wonderful examples of the local liberty architecture is the Gran Caffè Margherita: you could stop here for breakfast, a cocktail, lunch or dinner - food and drinks are always simply delicious ... even if they are a bit expensive. But then you are also paying for the refined, sophisticated ambiance which will remind you of a country club during the 1920-30’s, when people like the musician Giacomo Puccini or the physician Guglielmo Marconi used to "hang out" at Margherita.
“I find other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.”
— Frances Mayes - American novelist, memoirist and professor
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