Stormy weather on the Isle of Skye, January 2014
Stormy weather on the Isle of Skye, January 2014
A Costa Rican Pygmy Owl I spotted on the side of the road.
Costa Rica, December 2012
Quite a lot of luck spotting this Pygmy Owl on the side of the road in the mountains of Costa Rica. This beautiful little owl bright yellow eyes and bronze coat of feathers only is 10-15 cm in size. You can find this species in the mountains of Costa Rica and Western Panama.
This was part of an amazing trip through Central America where we besides Costa Rica also visited Guatamala and Belize.
Galapagos
Moonlight over Arches National Park
Marocco
Hälleviksstrand, Sweden, June 2008
A bit about me...
Simone is my name. I am Dutch but now living in wonderful Sweden. One hobby of mine is photography and I really like to travel. This means I am taking a lot of pictures during my trips. On these travel pages I am compiling the best pictures and also write about the different destinations I've been to. One of my main passions is nature and you can find lots about that on these pages. So if you are a nature lover, you are at the right place!
But going into nature is not all I do. I also like to visit small out of the way places, go off the beaten path, visit historic places, picturesque villages, meet people, absorb different cultures and explore a city once in a while.
So why am I writing all these pages? The answer is simple: I love writing about my travels and share my stories and photos with others. It is also a great way for me to show my family and friends where I've been and what I've seen. But I also write these pages just for myself. It is my way to keep a sort of diary about all my trips around the world and relive my travels again and again :-))
The picture you see here is taken during a hiking trip in the north of Sweden, from Abiskojaure to Alesjaure. This photo makes me dream about more hiking trips I am currently planning to Lapland.
- Quotes -
Some of my favourites and even after reading them so many times, they still make me laugh, think and/or wonder.....
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light
with the possible exception of bad news,
which obeys its own special laws.
Douglas Adams
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works,
the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
Douglas Adams
Time is the worst place,
so to speak, to get lost in...
Douglas Adams
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't believe anything you read on the net.
Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
Douglas Adams
The advantage of a bad memory is
that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A common mistake people make
when trying to design something completely foolproof
is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go,
but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams
You always have to see other person as more intelligent than you.
Dalai Lama
Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he will believe you.
Tell him a park bench has wet paint on it and he will have to touch it to be certain.
Pablo Picasso
Time is an illusion, and lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships
that they give credibility to the opinions they attack
Voltaire
Inspired by recent trip to the USA:
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee
Abraham Lincoln American president
I hope you will enjoy reading my page!
Please leave me a message when you have visited my page.
I'm curious what you think of it!
Intro Updated Apr 4, 2016
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Happy birthday for 2017.....see, I'm getting in early this time!
You must have enjoyed your celebrations ! All the best for year ahead ;-)))
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIMONE!! I hope you have a wonderful celebration!
Happy, happy birthday! I hope you had a great day!
Happy Birthday,hope its been a great day
Simone, Gefeliciteerd: youtube.com/watch?v=yjiWFAgY...
Thanks PJ! And thanks for the link, I never heard that song before. So cool to have a song named Simone! :-) :-) I have to listen to it again later this week, as I am on a little island right now on the West Coast of the Sweden, and the internet is far from good here! But maybe that is part of the charm of the island :-)
The ideal song for you :) PJ
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Happy happy birthday sweet Simone :-)))
Thank you dear Ingrid!! :-) :-) I am on Käringön to celebrate my birthday and had dinner att Pettersons Krog tonight. The food was great as always! But this time we are staying in a little hotel on the island, hahaha, as we didn't dare to take the risk of almost missing the boat to the mainland again ;-)
:-)))
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM BELGRADE, dear Simone! I hope that you are spending a great day, surrounded by the people that you love most.
Happy Birthday! All the Best!