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Sunday, 19 June 2011
19th June 2011 A Magnificent Ride To The Outer Space
19th June 2011 From Russia With Cakes (Photos)
These are all completely edible cakes made
By a lady in Russia . Remarkable!
All that you see below are cakes that can be eaten without
Any part of it left. No plastics or any other artificial stuff is
Being used - everything is edible. All these cakes by
Zhanna from St. Petersburg ....
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Once upon a time, there were a couple of very narrow old streets in Barcelona, so narrow you could chat to one another across the balcony without raising your voice, or look into the rooms of your neighbours on the opposite site of the street, and see what they were eating for supper, even when there's hardly any light. Afterwards, the inhabitants there would put chairs out in the streets, in front of their doors, to enjoy the fresh cool air, men talking about footballs or politics (the 2 favourite subjects in Spain), wen knitted or gossiped and children played. This relaxed and friendly atmosphere and social gathering with no previous arrangement of the old district of Raval is what the residents want to recreate, since last year, now celebrating it's 2nd edition.
The 2 streets are Carretes and Vistalegre, closed off from traffic since day before yesterday, all balconies display pretty and colourful flowers and plant pots. Yesterday, from 10.00 to 22.00 there were all kinds of activities to share the leisure and fun, propagate the bohemian ambience, invigorate the most artistic facade and promote economic and social projects.
There were music, dancing, performances, fashion parade workshop and sewing class, poetry recital, exhibition of old photos of the streets and the families then and now, and mini market, games and group activities for children.
I have lived in 7 different countries from the shortest 2 months to the longest 11 years, and as visitor in many more, but I have never seen such or even remotely similar regard for neighbour relations and spirit as the Spanish. Throughout the year there are even including very small towns and villages, most would devote at least one day, some longer, to have a street party when the neighbours get together in the street to meet up, chat and dance, exchange gifts, homemade food, tell stories, why not, gossip ... and colourful little light bulbs would be strung-up across balconies and lamp-posts, extra flowers displayed by the door as well as those usually on the balconies. Whilst living in London, many people live in apartments but for years nobody did anything with their neighbours. Mostly they don't even know one and other's names.
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19th June 2011 An Easter Tree!!
Strangely enough, such a thing as an Easter tree already exists, and it can be found in Germany. Around 1945, when he was just a young boy, Volker Kraft saw his very first Easter Tree (in German, Eierbaum, Osterbaum or Ostereirbaum, ), and decided he would have one of his very own, when he grew up. Time passed and young Volker became a married man, with a family. But his childhood dream stuck with him and he decorated his first Easter Tree, in 1965. He used 18 colored plastic eggs.
But the tree was growing fast and he and his wife, Christa, couldn’t afford to waste so many Easter eggs. So they began drilling holes into the eggs, using the contents in the kitchen, and the painted shells as decorations. When their children grew up, they started helping with the decorating, and the Easter Tree became a family tradition, known not only in their home town of Saalfeld, but all of Germany.
After their kids moved out of the house, it seemed that Easter tree would finally catch a break, but grandsons arrived and the Krafts went back to decorating their giant tree. The number of Easter eggs hung on the tree's branches grew every year. In 2010 it reached an incredible 9,500 eggs!
But the tree was growing fast and he and his wife, Christa, couldn’t afford to waste so many Easter eggs. So they began drilling holes into the eggs, using the contents in the kitchen, and the painted shells as decorations. When their children grew up, they started helping with the decorating, and the Easter Tree became a family tradition, known not only in their home town of Saalfeld, but all of Germany.
After their kids moved out of the house, it seemed that Easter tree would finally catch a break, but grandsons arrived and the Krafts went back to decorating their giant tree. The number of Easter eggs hung on the tree's branches grew every year. In 2010 it reached an incredible 9,500 eggs!
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