I've only been abroad once and it was so disastrous that it hasn't been attempted since. I'm sure I will visit many of the places I want to at one point, so here is a list of some of them, plus cities I have been to before and wish to return to. Thanks to Naoise for the suggestion.
1. Edinburgh. A city I've visited hundreds of times on account of it's accessibility and what there is to do there. I adore the atmosphere, museums, art galleries, culture, history and architecture, and having lunch in the park with Gemma. Everytime I pass the statue of David Hume, I think to myself "Why is he in a toga?"
2. Kraków. I would really love to visit this city, and experience the culture. Visit the castles and cathedrals, look at the gorgeous architecture and of course, visit Auschwitz. That is something I have always wanted to do.
3. Paris. I have this utterly childish belief that I will fall in love in Paris (unless, of course, I go there already in love, which would probably be just as wonderful ) It just seems so romantic. I would love to visit the Louvre, and see how much French I can remember from school... better yet, it might be a good excuse to learn the language again.
4. New York. I have this sneaking suspicion that I would take black and white photographs all the time there. I'd love to just wander around there. Window shop (Tiffany's!) and obviously, visit all the landmarks. The Empire State Building, Statue Of Liberty, oh and Central Park.
5. Rome. I'd love to visit so many places in Rome, including the Pantheon in Old Rome with the hole in the ceiling, and the Colosseum. Plus, I love Italian food. Oh and not forgetting The Mouth Of Truth. I love Roman Holiday.
6. Berlin. Lots of different museums for me to enjoy, including a Jewish museum which I think seems really interesting and Topography of Terror. I also love visiting churches and there are some that look really interesting there, plus different memorials and the remaining section of the Berlin Wall.
7. Amsterdam. Many museums, churches and synagogues to catch my interest. I'd really like to visit the Anne Frank House, Van Gogh museum and take in the parks and countryside.
8. Athens. So many of the landmarks in Athens look fascinating, especially The Acropolis and The Ancient Agora.
9. London. I have been to London twice, but there is so much to see and do there, I'd probably have to go back quite a few times to get it all done. I've yet to visit St. Paul's Cathedral and The Tower of London. Lots of different museums and galleries too.
10. Prague. Prague Castle, Josefov - the historical Jewish ghetto, various museums and galleries and the Gothic Týn Church in the Old Town.
Wednesday 25 March 2009
Sunday 15 March 2009
Sunday Songs
I wish Sundays were always brilliantly sunny and calm, where everyone can have long lies and then enjoy the day by mooching about in the comfiest of clothes, walking in unspoiled landscapes and having the most incandescent daydreams. Here are some Sunday songs; the ones I like to relax to, and the ones that should make the sleepiest of days just a bit more magical.
1. The Underground - Al Murphy.
2. This Is How My Heart Behaves - Feist.
3. Real Love - Regina Spektor.
4. Postcard From A Dark Star - Merz.
5. Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley.
6. Meadowlarks - Fleet Foxes.
7. Crowd Surf Off A Cliff - Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton.
8. Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine.
9. Do You Want To Come With? - Stephen Fretwell.
10. Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead.
1. The Underground - Al Murphy.
2. This Is How My Heart Behaves - Feist.
3. Real Love - Regina Spektor.
4. Postcard From A Dark Star - Merz.
5. Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley.
6. Meadowlarks - Fleet Foxes.
7. Crowd Surf Off A Cliff - Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton.
8. Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine.
9. Do You Want To Come With? - Stephen Fretwell.
10. Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead.
Sunday 8 March 2009
More Literary Quotes
1. "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." - from Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen.
2. "What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy." - from The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger.
3. "I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up." - from To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
4. "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent - that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life." - from The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
5. "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love." - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
6. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde.
7. "Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe - I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! Only do not leave me in the abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannnot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë .
8. "His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy." - from Lord Of The Flies by William Golding.
9. "The heaventree of stars hung with humid night-blue fruit." - from Ulysses by James Joyce.
10. "Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men's souls to joy." - from On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
2. "What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy." - from The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger.
3. "I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up." - from To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
4. "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent - that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life." - from The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
5. "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love." - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
6. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde.
7. "Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe - I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! Only do not leave me in the abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannnot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë .
8. "His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy." - from Lord Of The Flies by William Golding.
9. "The heaventree of stars hung with humid night-blue fruit." - from Ulysses by James Joyce.
10. "Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men's souls to joy." - from On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
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