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Who do you need to invite to a party (or workshop)? Pam Houston (Davis, CA), Simon Winchester (New York, & Massachusetts,) and of course Conor Grennan (Prague & Brussels).  They are few of the more than 20 well-known writers who share their travel experiences in the Lonley Planet story book: Tales from nowhere. Pam Houston traveled to West-Australia and wrote a funny part about a sleeping kangaroo and other animals. Others were writing about flow-effect (term by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi psychologist*), the rain season in Sri Lanka, hospital experience in Oxford, UK. Conor Grennan traveled the world in 1,5 years because he had in his mind: "I cannot tell great stories during parties." Now he has... The book is for sale on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nowhere-Lonely-Planet-Travel-Literature/dp/1741795206/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495983437&sr=1-2&keywords=Tales+from+Nowhere+%28Lonely+Planet+Travel+Literature%29   You can al...

Weather was kind today for the Dutch Mother's Day. Sunny. Many of us were fighting for the remote control yesterday: music or football? I did not follow honestly (I finished at work at 12PM.) but I hoped to have a good score for the Dutchies: https://eurovision.tv/participant/og3ne/info Solution: watching football together  with Og3ne  as background music! https://itunes.apple.com/nl/album/we-got-this/id1151477237?l=en What to do on Mother;s Day? flowers / roses chocolates* going out fruit basket (kiwi, peach, plum) *Laura is the owner of CHOVE. I met her & I tasted her creations on the Sunday Market in Amsterdam Center on the Rokin today. It is a Greek chocolate: “I am Laura Kokkiadi. Greek and Dutch from origin. I was born and brought up in Greece, Crete in specific, and came to The Netherlands to study. I have been living here for twelve and a half years. Coming from two countries, and living in the one I was not brought up, made...

Today is Mother's Day in Hungary. A young Norwegian mom Jade Nordahl made an hilarious illustration about her life:  https://www.instagram.com/ab.bel/   Tulips, roses or purple syringa? 4 years old boys and girls and under always give purple syringa to their mom and they recite a poem in Hungary. What is the best gift you ever got? The best gift I ever gave is #freedom. Many of us think on freedom in the Netherlands on May 5th (war and peace) but after 18 years stress & happiness parents need recovering of freedom and rehabilitation. I don't understand when couples split and they go back to mom. She did her best 18 years long: "Work hard, be honest." PS. Follow your dreams.