It is amazing how much the same place can change depending on the time of day and the whims of the weather. This season the weather was exceptionally beautiful. The sun was reflected in the windows and glass walls of modern buildings. The world seemed magnificent, luminous, joyful. Pure gold. Every day we accumulated energy for the melancholy-rainy season approaching…
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RUINS OF THE LAROCHETTE CASTLE
Ruins of castles are really magical places. The walls embedded in the rock, rugged and ravaged by time, seem to hide thousands of untold stories. Just imagining the stages of building such a medieval castle makes a shiver run down your spine. How many people had to sacrifice their lives to build a defensive castle on such a high rock? Looking down…
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CHÂTEAU D’IF
blacker than the sea, blacker than the sky, rose phantom-like the vast stone structure, whose projecting crags seemed like arms extended to seize their prey Alexandre Dumas “The Count of Monte Cristo” A trip to the Château d’If is an attraction for really patient tourists, but the impressions from the trip are unforgettable. To avoid the horrors of driving the car…
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THE FOUR TYPES OF MEN
Apparently there are four types of men: losers, users, boozers and bores. A girl can love a boozer – (Leaving Las Vegas with Nicolas Cage). She may also fall in love with the user and loser, but no girl will love the bore. Unfortunately, there are many nice, attractive boys in this category. When I asked about the types of women, he…
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VERY SHORT STORIES FROM CRETE
Ancient story This is not a happy day for Rhea. Although she just gave birth to a beautiful, healthy boy and she feels good herself, she is trembling with fear. Her husband – Kronos – made it clear that he would swallow all his children as soon as they were born. And he already proved he was not kidding. Poseidon,…
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KNOSSOS
Around 3000 B.C., important cultural centers began to emerge in the Aegean Sea basin: Crete (the Minoan culture) and Mycenae on the Peloponnesian Peninsula. The Minoan culture developed alongside the civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia but distinguished itself by its greater humanism. It was mentioned by Homer, Plato, and Aristotle, yet it remained largely unknown for centuries until the great…
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ROSE – MINIATURE
At the beginning there was only a green bud, lonely between branches and leaves glittering in the autumn chill. The last child of beauty. It was slowly turning red as the sun grudgingly shared its pale, tired beams. One day, however, with a crimson blush, it unfurled its delicate petals, delighting that it existed, that it was permitted to bloom, that…
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IMPRESSION
They did not understand me … I wanted to be different. Special. We smiled to each other, we nodded, but each of us remained in their world. I loved them. The more I loved them, the more I missed them, the more I created the distance … I did not learn to show my feelings. I was ashamed of my…
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MIRACLE
A huge rain cloud hung over the heavy dark world, throwing navy-silver streaks of light on the ground. The still air, frozen in anticipation of dangerous murmurs, hung terrified and unbearably thick. A metallic clatter of elevators and quite pleasant noise of pouring grain came from the grain warehouse, which – surprisingly – gilded purely in the dark. In the…
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MEMORY LANE
The bus threw me and the “Little One” at four o’clock at the “K.-crossing” stop. Nobody waited for us so we threw the bags on our backs and we plunged into the forest following a narrow road. From this intersection to the village were three kilometers and unfortunately we had to overcome them very often “on slippers” (which meant in…
