Friday 15 March 2013

Prague ahoi!

Some traveling plans ahead, eventually! I'm going to Prague for the Easter holiday with two of my colleagues and I started to check out this week what is actually happening there around Easter. Hannah, one of my best friends explained that there might be some whipping expected, and what I read is that it's a typical Easter Sunday tradition that the guys tie twigs together and go around whipping the girls' legs...a fertility rite :) But there are also some Easter markets to hang around, if just there weren't like million other tourists there at the same time...

What could be a trip to without any visits on cute old bookstores..as my previous trip to Prague was in the summer 2006, I have no idea anymore where I might have gone (except the Mucha museum), so I have started my researches from nothing.

 
I found this great website called Bookstore Guide that I spent quite a while reading, really nice tips and way of writing :) I might mention to the writers that some of the Berlin my favourite antiquarians are missing!

Thursday 14 March 2013

A Year in Helsinki

Just wanted to share this, because Helsinki (or let's say the Finnish landscapes) look so beautiful in it, and I had maybe a bit of Heimweh today...missing summer nights filled with light, and sunny early spring days when the snow sparkles so bright...