A Royal Affair

So far this film has been the only positive surpriser at Helsinki Internation Film Festival 2012. 

Light for Thursday

Tired

11 hours of sleep. That should help, a bit. At the moment I'm more than busy at work and I don't have much more energy left. 

A jumping cat

J's mother has a cat. A flying one.

In the forest

 

Farewell my big, hairy friends

This autumn is bringing a big change in my family's life. Our farm will stop being a milk farm and all the cows are moving. Already now most of the cows have got a new home and the rest will most likely move to their new farms by the end of this month. 

It's going to be strange to me even though I haven't lived there since ages. But it has been my home, it is still and the cows have always been there. Cows have been funny hairy friends with the big tongue. Our cows have always been like pets or almost like family members. When I was child I remember that I was counting that in our family we had something like 30+ women (my mother, sister and me plus all the cows) and two men (my father and my brother). There are so many stories with the cows - happy ones and sad ones. 

But having cows nowadays is so hard work. Especially, if you do it alone. My mother has been keeping the farm with my brother 's big help and now the time is up, there isn't much more energy left anymore. I'm going to miss the cows, but this way it's going to be easier for everyone.  

A cow is always going to be my own totem animal. 

How would you handle this situation?

What would you do, if the car in the middle were yours and you had to leave now?

Maastricht needs to be explored better

 

To be totally honest, I haven't had really any idea how is Maastricht. I was kind of imaging it as a boring Dutch city in somewhere there. I knew something about Euro, a year 1992, but that's about it. 

As Maastricht happened to be only 80 minutes drive from Antwerp and my friends live there, we drove there on last Monday. Pretty quickly I found out that also Maastricht is a city, where I should go and spend a bit more time to know it better. It's pretty small (120 000 inhabitants), but very adorable city along the river Maas. 

Antwerp - A new Berlin?

 

From north of France it's a short way to go to Belgium (and The Netherlands, you will see tomorrow). A morning after the wedding last weekend, we were wondering what should we do. LMK mentioned Antwerp and how great city it is - and only two hours away from there where we were at the moment. We didn't need to be convinced more and off we went to see this small city in Belgium. 

It was funny to travel to a place, which you know nothing about. Even though our stay was only a one night in a nice little hotel, I can say that I will return there one day. Such a charm - next time I'd like to spend a long weekend there. From Antwerp we went to see my friends to.. where? Story will continue.

Short visit, but oh so much things to do

The wedding, a new born baby, friends and family. Plus an non-planned trip to Belgium and The Netherlands. The visits to France are never too boring nor for sleeping nor resting, I should know that already.

After the wedding in France you woke up in Antwerp and wonder what happened?

Last Saturday & Sunday there was friends' wedding near to Lille, France. In that part of the world the distances are ridiculously short: after one hour of driving you are already in the capital of the neighbour country and in two hours in somewhere else.

Just like that we desided to go to see Antwerp in the Sunday afternoon. We liked it and stayed a night over. Only 80 minutes drive from Antwerp there is Maastricht, which happen to be a city where lives my friends. And off we went on Monday to spend the day with them (luckyly they both didn't work before the evening). So, on Monday we had a breakfast in Belgium, lunch and dinner in Maastricht, The Netherlands and went to sleep at home in France. Crazy, I say.

More pictures will appear in the end of week.

Gandalf Spice

It went faster than I could find a camera. 

Gandalf Spice, he does exist. Though I didn't eat him. Just saw him in Tallinn.