CURRENT MISSION

Finding heaven in a wild flower

Music, Movies, and Books

Soy Cuba, Goodbye Lenin, Mephisto, Belleville Rendezvous, Heimat, Black Orpheus, Il Postino, The Lives of Others, Bagdad Cafe, Lo sceicco Bianco, Sedotta e Abbandonata, Il Conformisto, L'Avventura, Les Amants du Pont Neuf, Seline and Julie go Boating, The Garden of the Finzi Contini, anything by Tarkovsky, Yilmaz Guney, Jean Cocteau,Aki Kaurismaki and Jim Jarmusch, most films with Nicholas Cage, An Angel at my Table, Strictly Ballroom, Finian's Rainbow, Shrek(!)

Most 60's West Coast music: Beach Boys, Mamas and the Papas,Ray Davis,, Elvis Costello, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Chet Baker, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Mari Boine, Josienne Clarke, Nancy Kerr

Books and authors:
Cold Comfort Farm, Flannery O'Connor, Edith Wharton, Antoine de St Exupery, Clarice Lispector, Primo Levi, Jean Rhys

Poets:
Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage, W B Yeats, Rilke, Haiku

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Stayed in the marble bedroom in the palace in Orchha
Met the two guys in the photo above, although I can't help wishing it had been OO7 himself!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook you a delicious meal

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Macedonia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United Kingdom

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