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This is just a way to stay in touch with all my loved ones at home, and as a reminder of my long holiday in 2009.

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Sweet Peas
- 2 years ago

You always sprayed a whif of Sweet Peas onto your wrists when you got into the car. It came from a porcelain sprayer, with a golden cap. When I was very little, I always imagined the Sweet Pea smell to fly over your seat onto me. I was scared that I would be called names for smelling like Sweet Peas. But I never did get called Sweet Pea. When we secretely went to Kentucky Fried Chicken on Thursday afternoons, after piano lessons, you used to spray the Sweet Peas when we got out of the car, so…
11, platform, 10, platform.
- May 29, 2010

My building smells of fresh baked bread every morning. I always think I should have breakfast more often. When I go down the stairs from the top floor, I smell the bread, think of breakfast and count the stairs. If you would ask me to tell you how many there are I would not be able to tell you. It's a habit. Counting stairs, lines on the road, birds flying by. Joggers on the other side of the road. Cigarette butts in the ashtray. It started out as an educational excursive. Years ago I…
Paris darling.
- March 8, 2010

I did not tell you the truth. I hated Paris - each single time I went there it ended up in me feeling only as Paris can make one feel. Half human, half idiot. Only half human because you need to be able to speak French to be fully human. It impresses the dates you have in Hollywood movies. It shows you belong to a certain corpe diplomatique and that I can understand the paper that is folded into my usual paper on Thursdays. Only in French is it possible to fully understand the consequenc…
SFO > Day 25
- July 20, 2009

It feels like the holiday is drawing to an end. Jason leaves for NY very early in the morning (a cab pick him up). I sleep in, and do my last shoppingwhilst here in College Ave. i buy my last gifts, and head home, last coffee in Nomad's, last pack of smokes at the local Grocery in Telegraph etc. At home I do my last washing, and start tidying up the place, washing the floors, and watering the garden. I dread the long flight ahead of me - and cannot figure out a way to wake up at 4:00 in…
SFO > Day 24
- July 16, 2009

Downtown day. We rush for town - have breakfast, walk up and down Valencia Street, Shop around in the mission District, have coffee at Dolores Park, and sit in the park... again. We love it here, and just lie around, lulling, laughing and checking out people. We get back to our car, and it is towed away, but instead of getting all excited, we simply get a cab to the pound, and get the car back. In the evening we decide to hit town again, but it is futile to try and find an exciting nigh…
SFO > DAY 23
- July 15, 2009

Local Day. We drive to the University, and shop around the Campus. Officially we are looking for Art Supplies. Having seen Berkeley, we head towards Oakland, and for the umpteenth time, I have the feeling that Oakland is deserted. At Pete's Coffee the woman recognises me again (last time I was there was almost three weeks before) - which certainly impressed me. We try to have lunch in towen, but the Restaurant we found only opens ten minutes after we are there - needless to say we do not r…
SFO > Day 22
- July 14, 2009

Officialy on Holiday for three weeks. We actually planned to leave the car, and stay at home today, but the weather is fantastic, so we get ready, and go to the Beach. The hottest day in the last three weeks - we decide to head for Baker Beach - with a great view over the Golden Gate Bridge. This beach is one of the few beaches that are actually within the town perimeter, upon arriving we get a parking space directly where i ordered it - and we find the best possible space to lie down. A Y…
SFO > Day 21
- July 13, 2009

Sunday. Breakfast. SUV. Brittish Directions. Underslept Driver. "Do you know the way to San José"... Off to Santa Cruz, Looking for a Beach. We get lost in Santa Cruz, but we see the towns hookers - around Lunch time. Looking at Seals - which we didn't see but only heard, we develop a new vocabulary to be discreet. Germans walk by with a nifty map - and I corner them about where our Beach might be. We head towards Davenport and get out on the Beach - which is completely deserted - and…
SFO - Day 20
- July 12, 2009

Jason and I wake up at 9.50 after having a few drinks outside in the garden... We had to hurry to get our car by 10.00 - but first we had to figure out getting there. I really think Public Transport should be a number one priority for any town with more than 10.000 inhabitants. We take a cab, and pick up our little Golden Calve. A Toyota Rav4 - in gold, Claudia Schiffer in Boots. The two of us feel like we are losing it completely. Everyone else in Berkeley drives Priuses - only we in a fat S…
SFO > STA - Day 19
- July 11, 2009

Wake up at 4:00, get a cab to the airport, and fly with Alsaka Airlines, back to SFO. Quote from the Trolley Dolly: 1. "If you are looking for any blankets or pillows, we do not have any". 2. "Those passengers traveling on to Cancun from San Francisco, that sounds nice, but I am not sure whether this plane actually carries on, or whether you have to get off in SFO". I swear. Back in SF by 11:00, take the BART to Berkely, do some shopping, shower and have a snooze, then get back to…
SFO > STA - Day 18
- July 10, 2009

Waking up really early to get the train to Vancouver. I get a taxi from the Hotel, and get to the train station 10 minutes before the train leaves at 08:00, I try to buy a ticket, but somehow the machine does not work with a foreign Credit Card. With two minutes to go before the train leaves, a helper comes along, and asks me where I want to go. I answer that I am trying to get on the train to Vancouver... He replies that it is already too late, no chance of getting there by train anymore today.…
SFO > STA - Day 17
- July 9, 2009

Today I wanted to discover more about Seattle. I love the city, find it more exciting than San Francisco, and the people seem to be less "California" - and more natural. Maybe it is the close proximity of nature, maybe the closeness of Canada - I cannot really pin-point it. I took the Water Taxi across the bay to Aki Beach, and sat down on the beach, reading. It drizzled now and then, but I loved my book, and sat there, taking photos of ships passing by and children singing on the beach. I…
SFO > STA - Day 16
- July 8, 2009

I slept in, the Hyatt bed is simply fantastic. I checked online, but it is only deliverable in the USA, and I would so much like a bed exactly like this for home. I walked Downtown, and went to the modern Art Gallery, which had an amazing exhibition. Traditional Native American pieces were exhibited next to African contemporary art, and somehow, it all made perfect sense. Then there was an exhibition about destructive art, which was extremely interresting. I spent most of the Day in the Mu…
SFO > STA - Day 15
- July 7, 2009

Seattle is absolutely great. I woke up early (slept fantastically eventually) and went for a swim in the hotel pool, showered and went for breakfast o0n the search for WiFi to get my mail. The WiFi I could not find, as most of the places were still closed when I started my walk. I had a coffee in Starbucks - for the first time on the trip in a Starbucks - because Starbucks actually comes from Seattle. After breakfast, I went back to the hotel and had a morning snooze. Love those. Got on m…
BLN > SFO - Day 14
- July 6, 2009

So, two weeks on holiday. Now it starts to get to be a sin. I am enjoying being free a lot. Today I cleaned the house, and packed - and got everything ready for my late night flight to Seattle. I read a bit in the garden and got a dreadful sunburn. On my way to the airport I had my camera ready to take a photo of the Cranes in the harbour, which supposedly was George Lucas' inspiration for the big war machines in the Starwars, and looking at them, there is some similarity. I left for S…
BLN > SFO: Day 13
- July 5, 2009

This was my off day. I read, and watched TV and felt guilty for doing that here - but I am on holiday - once is fine. It was the fourth of July, so everywhere there were Fireworks, but you couldn´t see anything, as it was extremely foggy.
BLN > SFO: Day 12
- July 4, 2009

Artmurmur Oakland
BLN > SFO: Day 11
- July 3, 2009

Today was quiet, I started reading "Me talk pretty one day" by David Selar - and I have not been able to put it down... My Origami is getting excellent, I think my farewll gift looks pretty in the Washing room! Not much to tell there... Sorry!

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