CURRENT MISSION

To be happy.

ABOUT ME

I think Mark Twain got it just right in saying that “twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”

I want to live, love and learn. (not necessarily in that order) ;)

I want to travel the world; meet extraordinary people, breath in new scents, take beautiful photos, learn foreign languages, understand different cultures – understand myself.
And, then, as a grandma, I want to sit in my rocking chair (the one designed by Eero Aarnio) and sing Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ at the top of my lungs, meaning every word.

PHILOSOPHY

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.” - Coco Chanel

Interests

I love airports, libraries and old books, the British accent, sushi, prawn-cocktail crisps, philosophy, advertising, world politics, verbal acrobatics, photography, music, poetry, drawing, theater, dance, tennis, Disney-movies, thunder-storms, the forest after the rain, deep conversations, sauna, long Sunday brunches, lazy afternoons sipping tea, laugh, irony, life itself.

• books
• poetry
• singing
• theater
• photography
• dancing
• cocktails
• sauna
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• tennis
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies & TV: The English Patient, Amélie, Moulin Rouge, Dead Poets' Society, Scent of a Woman, Pride and Prejudice (the 1995 BBC version), Band of Brothers (and, I must add: Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Colin Firth and Al Pacino)

Music: Alanis Morissette, Tori Amos, Janelle Monáe, Donny Hathaway, Buika, Coldplay, Muse, Alicia Keys, Adele, Juha Tapio...

Authors: L.M. Montgomery, Khalil Gibran, Pablo Neruda, Soren Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Tommy Tabermann. And the Harry Potter series of course!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Finland, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom