… so I’m back with more photo memories and destinations! They aren’t presented in any special order … also I need some help with some images in the galleries, can’t find my own on file (Biarritz & Vancouver).
4. Biarritz, France … I was there long before the 45th G7 summit.
My first visit was in 1977 with my German finance, Hans and ever since we arrived that September afternoon by car I wanted to go back.
I must have been coming back about 10-12 times (lost count) since then. When living in the UK it was so easy to jump on a direct budget flight and be there in 2 hours. From here is so complicated, have to change flights and even airports in Paris and only the thought of that !!!! So I haven’t been back since 2008, spent my 60th birthday there.
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.”
Chief Seattle
I was on the way last year … because Ryan Air had flights from Stockholm, but when I was going to book they had cancelled the route. I miss it SO! But there will be another visit.
If I ever win enough money on the Euro Lotto, I will move to Biarritz. I wish I had bought a place during the ’70s. Today I can even afford a cleaning locker.
Biarritz is the only place that I would leave Sweden for, it is my sanctuary. (I haven’t enough images on file to make up an interesting gallery, so I have to mix mine with borrowed. Click on the images and you see the rightful owners. Oscar is my camera by the way – he isn’t feeling the best just now, so he has been sent away to be fixed, I hope.)
“It is better to see something once,
then to hear about it a thousand times.”
Asian Proverb.
5. Sopot, Polen … awesome substitute for Biarritz.
Only 1-hour flight away … it is one of the nicest seaside resorts I have enjoyed. Polish friends took me when I visited Gdańsk in 2015 and I felt that belonging so soon I step out of their car. Been back for more 3 times now. It has that old fashion grandness and still very young at heart. Plus they do the best Mojitos!!!
“To travel is to live.”
Hans Christian Andersen
I’m a big fan of Poland … maybe it’s because I have Polish blood in my veins (my father). There isn’t much not to like. Outstanding hospitality, friendliness, the best hairdressers … loads of beautiful building and so much history … excellent food (very important), great shopping and good value for the Swedish krona.
“Once a year, go somewhere
you’ve never been before.”
Dalai Lama.
I try to visit Poland once a year. This year I hope I will make to Poznan and their International Ice Sculpture Festival at the beginning of December. My first visit and even if the festival isn’t happening I sure I come home with a lot of fantastic memories. Hopefully, their famous Christmas Market will happen.
6. Vancouver … for many years my number one.
In 1989 I was asked by my employer if I would consider work over in Canada for them .. for 12 months. They were starting up a ferry route between Victoria on Vancouver Island and Seattle. It was a yes straight away from me. I stayed for 2 years … and moved over to Seattle. LOOOoooOve!!!
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And in April 1989 the adventure started. Landed in Victoria when all the cherry trees were blooming such beautiful site … such a pretty city, but as they say over there … Victoria is for the newlywed and nearly dead. *laughing
So whenever I had some days off … a good friend and I took a couple of marvellous days in Vancouver. During one visit by accident, I had the honour to hear Placido Domingo singing at Canada Pl. in front of the Pan Pacific Vancouver terminal.
“Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost”
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Vancouver was for many years the city that I would have moved to straight away to if I had been asked. What a fabulous city; the Glorious Mountains of Vancouver’s North Shore and the Pacific Ocean in the front. Vancouver is a city that has everything … Vancouver has been ranked as one of the best cities in the world to live in for years.
Last time I visited Vancouver was in July 2012 when I visited friends in Victoria.
Why I changed my mind???? I met Chicago.
“Life is short and the world is wide.”
Simon Raven
There …. is more destinations to come. *smile
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller.”
Ibn Battuta
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great memories and beautiful photos! 🙂
Lola, thank you so much for your lovely comment. *smile
Vivi Am suddenly not getting your posts . . . shall try figure out next weekend . . .
Ehd, strange … no rush. I will be here. Have a lovely week, what left of it.
Ehd, strange … no rush. I will be here. Have a lovely week, what left of it.
I love this walk down memory lane!
Thank you so much for your lovely comment … and for your visit *smile