The dawn comes up early in Thailand. The hills take on their misty silhouette and a cooling breeze pushes it’s way through the mosquito screens. Then suddenly, as though observing a conductors baton the birds twitter and sing in unison,hundreds of them. Depending on your mood and at what time you found sleep the night [...]
You won’t believe it but I am going to Art Lessons here in Thailand. I had read about an art exhibition of Impressionist Paintings and Watercolour in the local paper. By the time I got around to visiting it the actual exhibition was over,but one morning a friend and I drove over to see what [...]
I am not lonely living here in Thailand.In fact I have already found a really true friend. He is rather shy,so he doesn’t like to be around much during the day,but as soon as it gets dark,which is about sixish he visits me. I call him Alexander. He doesn’t dare to come into my apartment,but [...]
Can’t seem to concentrate on anything these days. Time doesn’t flow by, it rushes like a raging torrent towards the last day of September. Last week,even the pain returned,that which always makes itself evident in some kind of joint or muscle in my body when I am going through a bad patch. The medical practitioners [...]
I began the week feeling miserable and depressed although I had no grounds for it. It wasn’t the lack of sun, central and northern Europe have been enjoying an exceptionally sunny February,but I felt nasty and was being nasty to those around me. Then I heard within twenty four hours from three friends that I [...]
Having struggled through the Summer trying to paint outside. Never quite getting the depth I wanted in the picture, but realising that the wrong nuance of green could ruin it completely, and at last accepting that artists cannot paint what they actually see. It has all to do with the science of colour and optical [...]
My Asian fever has been cured.Relapses are of course known,but at the moment I’m just enjoying being back in Switzerland where the trees are no longer the colour of best Burmese Jade and today we can almost smell snow in the air. I experienced so much on my trip to south east Asia.I met so [...]
The start of my Asian Odyssey is slowly nearing. I can’t back out of it now without losing face.Not that I want to,I’m really looking forward to the new experience.There are just some days when the little voice inside of me asks if I haven’t perhaps bitten off more than I can chew. Already I [...]
It would be a dream but it’s way above my budget,a ride on the Eastern and Oriental Express. Yesterday I saw a programme about it again,and it showed a sequence over one of it’s passengers; the British Lord T. who was more than half way through his nineties,and had only started to travel at the [...]
Would you all say I was a little mad that after my ‘coming of age’ on the 19th 0f March-(and its not my 21 st Birhday,but the day on which I never have to work again) I might consider packing a rucksack and getting myself on a flight to somewhere in Asia. Yes, I do [...]
