Posts Tagged ‘souvenir’
welcome to 7×7, a new weekly feature on draw! pilgrim, its a ‘week in pictures’ type round up of snippets from my life designed to encourage me to share more of what i’m up to, and take more photos even when i’m not on holiday. as socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living, while that sounds a bit drastic, i’m terrible at taking photos generally and i’d like to have more to look back on.
i miss room service breakfast! i could eat that plate pictured everyday, forever. i’m normally terrible with breakfast, but having a proper breakfast makes so much difference to how i feel throughout the day. but has that motivated me to make a plate of fruit up like that now i’m home? no. no it hasn’t.
on our last day in LA we had breakfast at swingers diner on beverly blvd and then walked around to melrose ave to cruise shops. we passed by canter’s deli which was on my list of places to visit, but we seriously ran out of time. peeking in the window convinced me we need to visit with empty stomachs next time!
i don’t know what strange gasses they pump through airplanes, but i always seem to forget what’s in my suitcase between point A and point B. so unpacking is especially exciting for me, and as soon as i pull everything out of the case it all comes flooding back- “ah! remember that time we went to amoeba records and thought we’d died and gone to heaven?” “hey look! there’s that crooked street we went down!” etc etc for 3 hours. sigh…
homework is much more fun when you’re doing it in candy colors! it feels so fun to hand write stuff after being conjoined to the keyboard so much of the time! i’m into week 3 of the BYW course with the lovely holly becker, so this notebook is filling up with all kinds of treasures.
i’m not sure if our cat, pringle, is happy we’re home or not… what do you think?
this guys is nuts about stealing my foreign chocolate stash! lucky he’s so cute. how lucky am i to have a boyfriend who buys me jonathan adler for christmas? very.
here’s a little bit of a sneak peak of a work in progress. i hope you like it, the flowers sure are cheering me through the post holiday blues.
i know its been very holiday snap heavy lately, and i promise this ‘slide night’ won’t be lasting too much longer, so in future weeks, real live photos will be more ‘exotic’ posting material.
the last week and half has been full of ups and downs but one of the highlights of our recent trip to south australia was a day in the adelaide hills. two very dear friends flew from sydney to be with me and lend their support and i’d spent most of their visit sitting in a hospital or with my family, so we were in need of a catch-up and something fun to do. we went up to hahndorf to stuff ourselves with food and just generally be a bit silly in what could be the kitsch-est place in australia.
for anyone living in germany, or anyone who has been to germany, hahndorf is going to either severely disappoint you or amuse you endlessly. its what crocodile dundee is to actual australian culture: its hyper-real. i have to say it amuses me endlessly. its a little town, about a half-hour drive out of south australia’s capital city adelaide, founded by german settlers in 1839. its not all german themed (i kind of wish it was a disneyland of german-ness. they could call it deutschy-land maybe? but alas not everyone appreciates these things such as i do) but there are a lot of stein motifs and cuckoo clocks to be seen.
we ate kranskies, saurkraut, and potato salad. my friend drank a carbonated malt drink, and then we ate berliners, beestings cake, and danishes! and then we shopped for souvenirs…
… i like to think i have a streak of chalet chic in my home now!
if you’d like to know more about hahndorf click here and i hope you find it as amusing as i do. i think next time i visit i want to dress in lederhosen and use all my high school german phrases!
tschüss!
