If gargoyles could speak: here they have a smoke and a chat as they hold up a heavy pillar next to the Cuban tobacco shop!
Creatures of all sorts sprinkled the park lawns yesterday, toasting in the sun. A little bird even came so near as to eat a piece of bread from my sandal!
This picture is just so great I simply had to post it! My parents' new car and Cotopaxi in the background. Aaah, mi Ecuador tan bello! I miss the mountains! (and my parents!)
Bulevardin Kahvisalonki is a lovely café, and this was my view from the couch. Naguib Mahfouz and some green tea kept me company, along with my friend who works there!
I have a fetish for train station pictures, simply because I pass through there twice a day! This man was planting violets as the early morning commuters headed to work!
On Sunday, I went on a boat ride while fog and cool air hovered over the sea!
This morning, the market was alive with vendors setting out their goods and vibrant colors decorating the stalls!
Ok, we'll start off with a more toned-down pic, me on a regular day.
But, once upon a fair day...I had an identity crisis. Ok, not really. But here...hairstylin' with Hanna!
I had so much hairspray in my hair, even the wind couldn't do a thing to it!
An old depot in the city center was set on fire, and the crowds rushed to see the hungry flames destroy the building and dark smoke cover the sky. A view from near the modern art museum. Everyone had their phone cameras clicking, and you could hear people on their mobiles: "Hey, guess where I am right now?!"
The finished result! It is quite certainly the most artistic hairstyle I have ever had! I dig it!
Giza. Notice the goose legs in the bowl! That was dinner!
The view from the second trekking hut on the mountain, where we ate the best noodle soup in the world! Or else food just tastes better after hours of hiking!
And the view from the highest point we reached on our first climb. Simply breathtaking! The climbing was also very steep!
My hiking companion, Justin, having reached the monument of Napoleon. Avalanches kept falling from that rock wall behind him, rumbling like thunder!
And this is Hohe Munde at twilight, as we returned from a beautiful day of mountain adventures!
Outdoor worm's eye view of a famous church.
We took the metro in the wrong direction one night...mea culpa. It was a memorable evening of new hairstyles, drunk party-goers, and 8 kg of laundry detergent hauled home late at night.
Kasper, mit der gelbe Mütze, ist neugierig um diese magischen Federn. :) It was my homework for German class to go watch this old-time puppet show! What fun, and very interactive!
