Thursday, February 18, 2010
Farewell winter! I’m heading to the sun!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Jet lag, Botticelli and Pizza
On Thursday I flew back to Frankfurt after two-week-stay in my home country. Believe me or not – next two days I was suffering of a jet lag after two-hour flight! Sounds ridiculous and generally it was, I was hanging around feeling completely sleepy and unconscious while the productive working time was slowly passing by. Finally today morning the real me is back, the energy is back and I can continue living my life knowingly.
While this after-flight long dream actually one think worth noticing has happened. I managed finally to see the Botticelli exhibition in Frankfurt. The exhibition itself was simply nice – well organized, contended maybe not really big highlights but a few really important paintings, frescoes and drawings of Italian master and his contemporaries, all collected around a coherent idea. And unfortunately a lot of visitors! The exhibition rooms were completely crowded. It was a Saturday afternoon which obviously is the worst time for peaceful admiring temporary exposition but who could have thought that if the exposition has been taking place since several weeks. And here we’re approaching the point which appeared to me as the most interesting of the whole event. The advertising. The posters announcing the exhibition are delightful. The genius of the designer was placing the creation of renaissance artist in today’s sophisticated world. So we have one with the detail from the fresco showing the room of St. Mary while Annunciation with ‘Botticelli: Interiors’, even if it’s the only or almost only interior detail of the exposited works. The other poster I remember (and the main for the event) is showing one of the numerous woman’s presentations (Minerva of Minerva and Centaur, Uffici, Florence) in artist’s oeuvre with richly decorated dress and fabulous hair. The title is ‘Botticelli: Autumn/Winter 2009/2010’, sounds like fashion show, doesn’t it? And that’s why I admire the organizers of the exhibition – because they manage to convince broad publicity that this art exhibition of old master is absolutely must see of the season! Respect!
The evening finished in the so-said only Frankfurt pizzeria with wood oven and obviously the quarto formaggi. The diet always can wait. Salut!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The disputable glory of the winter
I’m actually spending the next days in a part of Europe where snow lies since a couple of weeks and where if the temperature is closer to zero people are talking about warming. There’s also a lot of guys horribly complaining for such a type of weather but I have a better idea. Instead of sitting at home and complaining that you can’t go out in your favorite flats because you will immediately sink in snow till knees, dress yourself warmly and discover the charm of real winter! There’s a lot of advantages the snowy and sunny weather can have. First – white world is simply beautiful, snow covers all the ugly stuff in the cities and paints fabulously trees in countryside. Take your cam, mate, and shoot the perfect views!
The disadvantage of winter is the fact that our bodies still think it’s a very hard time for us (like thousands years ago) and somehow prepare us for winter sleep. Even if we need to be as active as in summer, the amount of daylight and the temperature don’t encourage to hard work. They rather are tempting for simply staying under the blanket and having big, warm and delicious dinner. That is unfortunately a trap, as we use in fact less energy than during warmer seasons. All we need for improving our moods is light, and it doesn’t have to be an expensive light-therapy. It might be simply a long walk, beside catching the sunshine, which makes us more energetic, we have some exercises making the body producing the endorphins. If you don’t have a possibility to try skiing (I absolutely adore cross-country skiing and I always do it when I’m at my mom’s), simply take friends out for having a snow fun – build a snowman, sledge or organize a battle with snowballs. It’s a fun which will awake a child in everybody, burning calories and make your mood great for the next few hours. So let’s love winter!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Bytów-Rzepnica, Poland
One more important general remark:
As you can recognize I am not native English writer. I chose English for this blog of two reasons - I have friends all around the world and I'd like them to understand what I'm posting, also would be nice to find the way to the hearts of the other people I don't know yet. The second reason is quite simple and selfish - I'm going to use it as an exercise of improving my English language knowledge:)
That's why I'm asking you for helping me - if you see something is written wrongly, tell me. That will help me to avoid such a mistakes in the next posts. Thx.