babschwi53- June 20th, 2013
American breakfast
Harrison Ford
nature
Supertramp
Tolkien
Thx rubyelf! I'll try....
American breakfast -
We've been to the US five times. One of the things I loved most was the American breakfast- and I don't mean the donut/ muffin and hot brown water breakfast you get served in motels. For me it is part of the old America, you've get a menue and a great choice of offers (eggs- scrambled,fried, baked or any other way, bacon, steak, pancakes, fruits, orange juice, toast, muffin, bagels (with cream-cheese!), coffee (refill) and much much more. The range is incredible and the quality almost everywhere just great. I can't remember one place where it was really bad. You don't get anything comparable in Germany!
Harrison Ford -
He was and is still one of my favorite actors. Long way before Viggo came along- who didn't caught my eye then - I must admit(shame on me).His first movie I watched was Witness and I was in love.
I always had, since I was a young girl a crush for one actor at a time. It started with Jan Michael Vincent in one of the first movies I ever saw in a movie theatre. I fell in love and sort of breezed home, the next days were complete heaven. It is funny to remember back, it seems so long ago now. Of course we had no internet these days, I think it was around 1973 and that makes me a 13 year old shy little girl and I had to rely to the papers and his next films to sort of keep in touch. I'm still fond of him, I just looked him up on imdb and his description sounds a lot like Viggos! It is the jaw- thing!! Virile, handsome and square-jawed youthful star that's their description of JMV (it fits to Harrison and Viggo too). This must have lasted since 1978, because I fell in love with Harrison in Star Wars, what a lovely man he was. Still is in fact. He, like Viggo, seems to age very slowly and with grace. I went to the cinema to catch almost every film he played in, read the papers - no internet, no easy access to information, no pictures. But I followed his carrer very closely and I still watch every movie he's in, I'm very faithful to 'my' stars. I've watched the second Indiana Jones Movie 14 times (in the cinema - no dvd or vhs) and fell in love a little more each time. My mother thought I was crazy and I probably was (maybe still am)!
nature -
I love beeing outdoors! That came with age, and also I'm not the adventurous type of person, I love to hike, to take long walks (about five to six hours). The forest is one of my most favourite places. Since Germany is compared to Canada or the US relatively small we don't have real big parts of nature. It is very crowded and you encouter human settlements or a street far too often. I like the solitude of the wilds, the way it provides comfort and gives me room to breeze and think. I find it soothing and it relaxes me completely. After a long walk I feel like my batteries are fully charged and I can take on real life much better. It also gives me a kind of humble feeling, walking under great trees, who are much older than me. Nature can be breathtaking beautiful (the Grand Canyon - I cried when I first saw it in real!), it is sometimes cruel but is always true, it doesn't pretend to be sth. else. I love the North Sea, where I spend every summer vacation in my youth and lots of winter vacations as I grew older. I love little lakes in a forest, every corner a different view and new things to explore. I love the mountains, they humble me like the big trees, and esp. when there's snow on top. I love waterfalls.
Supertramp -
Thats an easy one. It was the very first concert I visited as a kid, I think I was around 18. And it was frightning and terrific and magnificent and exciting. And expensive. Supertramp was one (and still is) one of my favourite groups. To me they are kind of ageless, I 've got all of their cds and I still like to listen to their music.
Tolkien-
The best christmas gift I ever got was the LOTR triology. It was bestowed from my father and I think it was around 1979/1980. I was 18 or 19 then, and I loved to read. I've plunged in the books and so it was a slow start - the beginning is so ... lengthy... I've finished the books before New Years Eve ( all three of them) I hardly did anything else these days, I've ate and slept and read. And I fell in love with Middle Earth, the fellowship, the whole story and most of all Aragorn/ Strider/ Estel - you name it. I read The little hobbit after LOTR but it wasn't the same, I tried to read The Silmarillion but found it too difficult and it never captured me like Lord of the Rings. The tapestry of the story, the basic statement that friendship will overcome all obstacles, that there is an evil in the world and it will be destroyed if all good people fight together - it all touched me very deeply. And learning about Tolkien and how he created his world impressed me even more. Different races and languages, creating a whole history going back ages, what a fascinating mind he had.
DONE !!
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