The coffee and the cakes… muaaah!
Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity. ~ A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East)
Guess the place 🙂
Hope is sweet.
Hope is illumining.
Hope is fulfilling.
Hope can be everlasting.
Therefore, do not give up hope,
Even in the sunset of your life.
My Life’s Soul-Journey: Daily Meditations for Ever-Increasing Spiritual Fulfillment)
Creating Memories!
I will be away for a couple of days!
Cheers!
बरसों बाद आज किसी ने मुझसे मेरा पता पूछा,
एक ज़माने में जो लिफाफों पे हुआ करता था।
ना रहे लिफाफे, न वो लाने वाले,
पता याद रखने का सबब बचा ही नहीं।
-रुपाली
From today I will be publishing detailed posts on my recent Stockholm trip. Writing a detailed post is both time and resource consuming work. I hope you will bear with me. The first post ( which I actually visited on the last day of tour ) is “the woodland cemetery” or as called in swedish “Skogskyrkogården” is one of the three Unesco World Heritage sites in Stockholm.
Skogskyrkogården’s history begins at the beginning of the 1900s, when it became apparent that Stockholm’s cemeteries were insufficient and needed complementing. In1914, the cemetery committee announced an international architecture competition in which entrants were to take advantage of the local topography and woodlands. Nonetheless, this did not mean that entrants needed to restrict accessibility, architectural design or artistic flourish. All elements were to blend in harmoniously. It was also to be easy for visitors to find their way.
Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigrud Lewerentz decided to produce their own entry together. Their entry “Tallum” won the competition and work started a year or so later. Together they created a unity of landscaping and buildings that has become one of the world’s leading architectural sites. Lewerentz was responsible for much of the landscaping. He also designed the classicist Chapel of Resurrectionin the southern part of Skogskyrkogården. Asplund designed the other main buildings: the Woodland Chapel, the Woodland Crematorium with its three different chapels, and the Tallum Pavilion.
Picutres are taken by me but the text is taken from the official pages of the site:
This is also my entry for Sunday Trees, which is inspired by Becca’s Sunday Trees theme.
I have always believed that exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind ~Nelson Mandela
As weather permitted I got chance to explore nature and had a nice mountain walk. I was able to hike upto 400m above sea level and covered a distance of little more than 7 km. I could not get more pictures as my mobile battery was completely discharged 😦 Anyways it was not a big deal. I enjoyed the tour.
Are you enjoying your Sunday?
Playing with my iphone 🙂
Sunday Trees are inspired by Becca’s Sunday Trees theme!
Being in woods is my favourite activity in such weather 🙂
Every Tuesday I upload a picture of a trail or a track or a road. It is so much fun to take a walk and capture the track. Hope you enjoy it. If you like the idea feel free to join.
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