Weekend adventure. Narrow, windy roads in medieval Strasbourg. Boiled pork and mulled wine.
Ambling about Strasbourg
Month: February 2013
Being positive
Aparently it rains 200 days a year in Luxembourg. So far the ratio seems to be correct. It rains. Or sleets. A lot.
There is still a bit of snow in the ground. However, today I saw the first flowers. Spring will come.
Settling in
Third week in Luxembourg.
We have found our supermarket, gas station, necessary government offices and my office. All very close. Our temporary home is like Luxembourg in general – beautiful, romantic, and tiny.
Air freight boxes arrived yesterday. That’s both good and bad news. We finally have most of my winter clothes here. But no closet space. I feel like a student again building temporary shelves out of the boxes. Suddenly the five weeks between now and getting our permanent home seem a lot longer.
After moving to Luxembourg, parking has become a major pat of everyday life. There is none. And where there is space, the regulation of who can park and for how long. Naturally all in French.
We are now just taking it easy, learning to know the city and enjoying some quiet home-time. Even cooking. Without an oven.
Hello world! How you been?
There is real beauty in capturing the small, everyday moments. Finding interest in routine. Allowing individual pictures to create small insights into our life and our world. This is why we want to start this blog – to push ourselves to keep an eye out for those small, happy and beautiful moments in our lives.
Therefore also the name – Blue Moment. The blue moment is that fleeting moment just after the sun has set and it’s not quite dark yet. It is so common you don’t typically even notice it. But it can be incredibly beautiful. (There is a nice old word in Finnish for it – hämäränhyssy – that has been a source of repeated arguments between Erika and her Finnish friends. Just believe me, the word does exist!)
There is also another reason for this blog. With our families and friends spread across the 5 continents, we want to have a way to share what is going on in our lives – and our photography. What better time to start one than now – while there are so many major changes in our lives? The last two months have fundamentally uprooted our lives: getting married, moving to a new continent, starting a new job for both of us. There should be plenty of reasons to take photos!
This blog will mostly be about photographs – although we’re likely to write a few comments to complement them.
Thank you for joining us! We are very excited to get started!
Blue Moment 