Sunday's Best: Top Ten flowers in a Swedish Meadow (in June)




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Still life

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Lacko Castle

This castle lies beautifully at  the Vanern lake in the middle of Sweden.
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In the Saab Museum




Some of my favourite models including Eddie's first Saab, the 99 EMS and our first the 900, Turbo convertible. The museum is tiny- but nice. It is no wonder that Saab is doing so bad lately, seeing that between the 1970's 99 and the 9-3 there's almost no difference...
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Trollhattan lock system

The locks of Trollhatan date from the early 18 century and span a considerable height with a complex of locks, some of them still in use.
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Uddevalla

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Kronborg castle at Helsinger



The real Hamlet castle is Kronborg. It is situated just across the water with Sweden and is mighty fortified. Below the surface is a maze of bunkers.The Royal family had a nice view and pretty nice ball rooms.
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Louisiana - Art museum at Copenhagen



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Ferry to Denmark


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Quick: say this aloud ten times...

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Willy Brandt

One of the most famous citizens of Lubeck is Willy Brandt. He was born here, fled to Sweden during WWII, became mayor of Berlin (see above with Kennedy and Adenaur) and later of course Prime Minister of West Germany.
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What the F**K?

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Lubeck



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Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque, author of "All quiet at the western front" has his own peace museum in Osnabruck - which tells about his life and novels.
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Osnabruck

Our first Stop is in Osnabruck. Famous for the West Phalen peace treaty of 1648. It happend in this Hall - well almost...,  the whole of Osnabruck was distroyed in September 1944.
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On the Road again

We are on the road again - this time to the very northern part of Europe: The Nordkapp. We will travel through Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.
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David Leavitt in Amsterdam

David Leavitt was in town invited by the John Adams Institute. His talk was funny and interesting, talking about his writing process, his life and his latest novel (which is published in Dutch this week) The Indian Clerk. I read this novel immediately when it came out in the states back in 2007: its a great story about an Indian Clerk - Srinivasa Ramanujan - who comes to Cambridge in the mid 1910's to solve one of the most important mathematical problems of all time. (And falls in love with a handsome soldier). Based on a true story - and beautifully told.
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Boring Eros Ramazzotti

Eros Rammazotti's new album Ali e Radici is very dissapointing. It's boring, without interesting lyrics: Eros we heard this all before - by the way: this guy really got old looking ;-)
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Carmen at the Opera with the amazing Yonghoon Lee

Georges Bizet's Carmen can be a little bit of a drag - it's a sort of classical top 40. Come in Yonghoon Lee - a tenor from South Korea: he blew the audience away with his beautiful powerful voice at tonight's premiere at the DNO.
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Sunday's Best: Top ten ebooks in my iLiad

With my Norddkap trip just days away it is time to decide with books to load on my iliad. Of the 50 books I will take with me (I expect long days because of the midsummer nights...) I am looking forward the most to these titels:
  1. At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life - Wade Rouse
  2. No Second Chance - Harlan Coben
  3. 44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith
  4. The memoirs of a beautiful boy - Robert Leleux
  5. Just too good to be true - E. Lynn Harris
  6. Exiles in America - Christopher Bram
  7. The Book of Useless Information - Noel Botham
  8. Het Diner - Herman Koch
  9. The Works (60 novels) - Charles Dickens
  10. NRC Handelsblad
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No's apple pie

We had dinner at No & Go to try their brand new teppanyaki grill plate. As dessert No baked one of her famous apple pies... :-)
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Bonal

Cute poster for sale at the kunst actionen Dusseldorf.
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Please be so kind and sign my Kindle...

A recent reading in Manhattan at the Strand bookstore by David Sedaris, whose most recent book is “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” may have offered a glimpse of the future. A man named Marty who had waited in the book-signing line presented his Kindle, on the back of which Mr. Sedaris, in mock horror, wrote, “This bespells doom.”
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Gay parents


Jarko Witte van Leeuwen was featured on national television with his family as an example of gays adopting children from the USA. There was some (minor) discussion in parlement whether that is desirable - IT IS! ;-)
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Anthony Woods - The new Obama?

Anthony Woods (gay, black Iraq vet with a Harvard degree, 28 years old) is running in a crowded Democratic field in California's 10th District, which includes parts of Sacramento and San Francisco's East Bay area. After he came out he was discharged (honorable). He is a guy will a great story and did all the right things to get (inter)national attention so far - let's wait a little bit a hear if he has to say something meaningfull as well... Go Anthony!
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Ring Lip

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How to shave your huh... groin - by Gillette


Or your back, chest, armpits or head
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Mosquitoes Starwars

Because Northern Scandinavia is Mosquito heaven at the time of the year when we are traveling over there - I am looking for some protection. Next to the usual DEET solution I came across this nifty product from Intellectual Ventures: A laser gun for Mosquitoes: No kidding - it really exists! It can recognize mosquitoes and then takes them out in a range of 100 meters...
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Prone Cobra Stretch



Because my right hand is still in a cast - my gym routine is quit different: I do more core exercises like the Cobra and Superman movements. You really have to get used to this - but is very rewarding and great for your lower back and abs...
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Sundays' Best: Top Ten audiobooks

With my iPhone always on hand, audiobooks are getting more and more fun. Audiobookbuilder
is a great program to stitch all the CDs or MP3s together in a bookmarkable format. These are my current favorites:
  1. The Fellowship Of The Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien, read by Full Cast (BBC 1981)
  2. Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs, read by Augusten Burroughs
  3. Dreams of my Father - Barack Obama, Read by Barack Obama
  4. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, read by David Sedaris
  5. Dear fatty - Dawn French, read by Liza Tarbuck
  6. Babycakes, Armistead Maupin, read by Armistead Maupin
  7. The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander Mccall Smith, read by Adjoa Andoh
  8. Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull, Thomas Mann, read by Boris Aljinovic
  9. Sense And Sensibility, Jane Austen, Read By Juliet Stevenson
  10. Economist weekly audio edition, read by various
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