Author:bill
We’re home in Canelo, 6 pretty hard, but fun weeks on our European tour. My blogs dropped off after Finland, the pace always seems to get quicker, we work more, especially when we arrive at a place where there is a lot of preparation needed. Plus, I think fatigue gradually eats away at you, almost imperceptibly, until you realize you probably don’t have another workshop left in you and it’s time to go home. Four – 6 day-long workshops is […]
Our Finland workshop took place at the edge of the Baltic sea on a small island just outside the center of Helsinki. The location was an old summer estate called Villa Svalvik, which in Finnish means “sage,†or so I was told. Most of the meals and the evening presentations took place in an old wooden house built in 1908 and used as a summer place. Access was by boat, there was no road til the 1950s. In those days, […]
Something very beautiful about the rain in Europe is that it can be raining and you don’t see until you feel it, then you focus and the faint, tiny drops come into focus. I suppose that must happen in other places, but it is something that we rarely if ever witness at home. Finland, yes we did a workshop there, but what is foremost in my memories – the forest, the mushrooms, the archipelago – largest group of islands in […]
We’ve completed our stay and workshop in Denmark and are now in Finland, just outside of Helsinki staying with Irish transplant Paul Lynch, his wife Charlotta and children. It’s a change, at first glance more modern, similarities to the States, design oriented which means many more Apple computers than other countries in Europe that we’ve visited. Trees everywhere, they grow here like weeds at home, water, lakes and surprisingly drier and warmer than Denmark even though it is further north. […]
Welcome to our newly redesigned Blog and our website should you decide to have a look there as well, both long overdue for change. Thanks to our friend Anastacia Gutierrez – www.gwiz.biz, web designer par excellent, we have a new and rather exciting look. Â The best thing about how she set it up is that Athena and I can maintain it and make changes without being dependent on her. Â Besides the new look there are several main changes. Â The blog […]