london

christmas shopping in london – here i come – i love cheap ryanair flights – o my, booked without luggage again, just carry-on – ah well, it’s winter, i’ll just bundle up and wear a whole lot of layers – it’ll be fantastic – hope it snows

last skating news

too showy, too flashy – fun, but that’s not what skating is all about – just too much – the romance is missing – he’s a show-off and skating is about grace and beauty and not about bragging what you can do, even if you can do it easily – ladies and gentlemen, as the last of my skating posts reaches it’s end, i present to you evgeni plushenko with an incredible performance – don’t laugh too hard ;)

shocking skating news

tennant trivia:

David Tennant hates ice-skating. For his ITV 1 drama Secret Smile he was required to skate, and kept falling over and bruising himself.

this is somewhat shocking, as is the film itself – david as a psychopath guy who drives a girl into suicide – ahhh, he’s still oddly attractive, but a lot more scary than i have ever seen him before, even more creepy than barty crouch jr. in harry potter and that’s saying something! – but here’s some photos of him skating nevertheless

and tomorrow – for my final skating post, you’ll get something to laugh…

girl skates

kathi witt – o, how i loved  her, when i was just a little girl – her ability to fly over the ice, pirouette like crazy and the eccentric costumes, she always wore set her apart from all the other girl skaters

o, and a little update on my skating skills – i am getting the hang of going backwards – it’s fun – more news tomorrow, along with a really shocking little peace of skating info

not bad at all

next to elvis, he’s one of my favourite skaters – he has this boyish charme that makes his performances absolutely fun to watch – and his feud with plushenko is just too good for words – ladies and gentlemen i give you alexei yagudin

and look forward to a jump back in time tomorrow – i’ll be introducing the girl, who kept me glued to the tv even as a four-year-old

skating – how it should be done

it’s winter and it’s cold out and i go skating every day – so here’s my new feature of the week – anything to do with ice skating – all new, every day

and we start with very poor quality, but the greatest ever skater to grace the ice – the canadian elvis stojko – he makes it look so easy, while i still don’t quite manage to go backwards or even get my leg straight up, when gliding along – and i remember him performing this very program a year later during some competition or other and me watching, riveted on the tv screen with my canadian friends in nova scotia – ahh, fun times!

the only one to maybe come a little close is even mentioned here at 3:10 and you’ll get a glimpse of him tomorrow

skating heaven

the location

corbie on the sea

paparazza shot

total cuteness

on a sunny winter’s day

walking in a winter wonderland

millions and millions of snowflakes are chasing each other down from the clouds – some settle on the trees and bushes – some fall gently to the ground and cover the world in an ever-spreading sheet of whiteness – and some are tickling my nose before they melt – it is perfectly narnia and i am walking amidst all this, silently wondering at the magic of winter – hour upon hour goes by and i don’t even notice – it feels like home and finally this winter i can shout out to the world, why it is that i love winter so much – very quietly of course, so i won’t disturb the perfect dance of the snowflakes – i adore winter, i do, i do, i do – and on nights like this i feel like an ice princess inspecting her world and oh what a wonderful world that is!

christmas market

 

 

mulled wine – chocolate-covered fruit – cotton candy – sugarroasted almonds – delicious smells mixing – lighted street decoration – meeting friends at every street corner – that’s the christmas market – today it opened and now it really feels, like christmas is just around the corner

fernweh

lately, i spend most my time at the theatre, preparing for our premiere on december 4th – there’s a lot to do and next to no volunteers to help – and once i am there, it is very hard to leave – this includes never getting home before sunset – driving home today was rather romantic – the quietness of a snowy night lay over the city and i loved the cold, the snow, the twinkling of the frost on the streets and, most of all, the steaming gully holes

those wonders, which i had only seen in dear old san francisco up till now – suddenly i was taken by a bout of itchy feet and the longing to fly back to that city by the bay

let it snow

i love winter and i love snow and the past few days have been absolutely delightful