christmas greetings

some time ago

sleepy

Rolina finished her installation at Andrejsala in Riga before we made a trip to Tallinn. We cannot pass Estonia without visiting Marit (a volunteer once for stichting Link). Since the work of Rolina went much more rapidly than planned and Riga is much more picturesque and smaller than we thought, a visit to Tallinn is very welcoming even if it is in fact the opposite direction of our travel destination : -) and we both seen Tallinn before. Just like Riga Tallinn has a sleepy influence on us. Not that both cities are boring, far from that, but the days have been wrapped in darkness. It seems the day never really breaks through and before you know it is entirely dark. We have slept never as much as in these two cities! Or is it just because we are tired of traveling for a year? : -)

art in process

Russia

Still in the mood for contests; the Russians will surely never win the one for friendly service. If you want to see a Russian smile, you should visit a museum where the paintings from the communist likeable social-realism shows plenty of them. The Russian landscape is beautiful and the Okhon Island in Lake Baikal one of the most beautiful spots I have seen. The train takes us from Ulan Ude to Irkutsk, to Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Staring at the snow-white landscape results in just seeing your own thoughts at a certain point.
In Saint Petersburg we met Zhenya, who did voluntary work in The Netherlands and two other nice Russian art students that show us the local art scene, some bars and in general the city. The planned artist in residence did not worked out so we just spend some days in Saint Petersburg before we went of to Riga. In Riga Rolina will work at Singalong.