John Le Carre

"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers."

John Fletcher

"Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate."

Publilius Syrus

"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."

Bertolt Brecht

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."

Stephanie Barron

"I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved."

Konstantin Stanislavsky

"Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation."

Philip Elmer-DeWitt

"Some people make headlines while others make history."

Bible

"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."

Steven Conrad

"You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period."

Jerry Chin

"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."

Samuel Johnson

"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."

Gloria Steinem

"Evil is obvious only in retrospect."

The long journey of the Wolf-Ystads Allehanda

20 razed, off Abu Dhabi has caused concern. The young varghane, who, according to the County Board's predator-experts probably is about, first appeared on Wednesday, up from nowhere. In the middle of Skåne; It is not unique.
Wolf has previously been wandering long distances in southern Sweden and has also done the scanian travel. 1984 discovered Wolf here for the first time since the extinction of the 1860s. Both 2009 and 2011, we had occasional visits.
Attacks on farm animals, especially when it becomes as the fence outside Abu Dhabi, is always regrettable. Nevertheless, it is desirable that the Wolf manages to establish itself here. The Wolf is a natural part of the scanian fauna. Today there are between 260 and 330 wolves in the country, most of them in central Sweden.
When farmers would be adversely affected, when sheep or reindeer is demolished for other reasons than for food, we have a definite problem. The question which then tend to be asked is how much patience the society has with nature.
A militant animal welfare often förfäktad line is that nature always goes first. Human beings should protect and preserve what is, not eradicate or skyddsjaga. It is not Sweden's official Wolf policies. This allows protection of hunting, although hunting is not just license this year. The motif is extremely pragmatic. Wolves set occasionally to us humans, but rarely more than we ask of them. Wolves are – unlike, for example, wasps – not significantly hazardous to humans. In the wild, they are shy animals that usually eat elk, deer, Beaver, or Badger.
Competition for the game does not justify free hunting. Congestion with Wolf in fårhagen may be a reason that more often allow hunting license. The European Commission's stop of the Swedish Wolf hunt reminds us of this. The lack of a management plan for the Wolf tribe survival meant that Sweden last year risked being hauled before the European Court of justice. The plan that has been prepared since then will take effect from the end of the year. Thanks to Brussels .
The little Swedish Wolf tribe is exposed. The risk of inbreeding is large. Naturalisation is therefore desirable, and there are a number of good projects. It should continue. The Wolf, the bear, Lynx and Wolverine – they are our large predator. To restrict the freedom of movement of någonderas is not desirable, even if both animals and humans probably would prefer to be in peace.
It is a major problem that we have only one Wolf in Sweden than they actually visit us. But the introduction of the Wolf in Skåne is hardly desirable. This is too crowded. Instead, let the Wolf come to us naturally.

Seth Godin

"Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it."

George Burns

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is�the higher achievement."

Franklin P. Jones

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger."

Vienna the world's best to live in Swedish Dagbladet

Europe dominates the list and Copenhagen, with 66,000 the only Nordic city on top 10.
Stockholm shares the nineteenth place with Luxembourg.
The consultancy Mercer prepares annually list to help international companies and organisations to its payment of foreign staff.
In the bottom of the list is Baghdad in Iraq.
Charts can be found here. (External link)

Jerry Van Amerongen

"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!"

don Miguel Ruiz

"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."

Elizabeth Stone

"The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity."

Michael Hanson

"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action."

With the heart as compass-Swedish Dagbladet

A dream doesn't have to be long, either in time or milestone. The dream could be about to test a brand new golf course that Donald Trumps in Scotland (page 10) or to visit a city that we read a lot about, Naples (page 30). But feels like a long journey that larger adventures.
In less than a month locks a two-child family on the South door of his apartment and goes out into the wide world. In 180 days, they only devote themselves to each other and a well-planned globe travel (page 9). To use parental days just so is one way to make a long journey. Even more common is to drag directly after high school, but then the plans are often so vague and budget so tight that it almost feels like a dream – until after a few years when it lost vägglöss and nine and just remember all the amazing meetings and locations.
We tend to Dream otherwise say about trips to expensive, exotic locations, such as fits a 50-årsjubilar or a newlywed couple on honeymoon. Anniversary composers seems like exclusive destinations (page 40), while newly-looking for paradise beaches (page 12). Perhaps it was because I was a little taken last spring on Rhodes when a vitklädd bride blanksprejad hairstyle with landslides into the charter facility buffetrestaurang-balancing its plastic tray with food. The uppklädda genera were apart elements among us solsvedda hotel guests. Bridal couple had indeed received the travel tylldekorerad golf car from the sweet little church in the area, and hotellbufféen were among the most tasty I ate – but I did not confuse kombina-stances brick luncheon and bridal gown. According to the Hotel Manager, they would arrange 56 wedding in 2012.
The many pairs have different reasons for choosing that particular wedding solution and not a question of money. If you want to cheap out, one should rather take off to a fairytale strand and ragga priest and witnesses on the ground. I had to take a witness a few times when I lived in the Caribbean: the couple barefoot in close, the priest is almost too cool, I catch my spirit bouquet. So romantic, but is blank in my eyes, that both family friends were missing.
So when I would marry me, it became both church and celebration. However, I broke and her husband against the usual honeymoon arrangement and for one week – Boden.
How did we do?Well, there was a little travel weary after a year in Asia and my husband had the bright childhood memories from the North. Hardly a drömmål objectively, and snow and cold at the end of may, did not make things better. The last straw was when we first fled to bion in grårusket but found it igenbommad, and then would get our locked bags and met a uppbrutet cabinets, emptied the bags. It was at any rate a good story — and his marriage is over. But it is a completely different kind of trip.

Jeph Jacques

"You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself."

Frank Warren

"Trade your secrets and become who you are."

Oprah Winfrey

"Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes."

Jack Nicklaus

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation."

Basque country-pleasure on the border

CULTURE
Musee Basque, Bayonne
In a magnificent 18th century building by the river La Nive is one of Europe's finest museums. This depicted the Basque cultural history understandable and informative.
www.museebasque.com
MUSIC, DANCE AND PELOTA
Check out the tourist offices about current concerts, music festivals, dance performances, and pelotatävlingar.
www.cotebasque.com
BASQUE ARCHITECTURE
Pilgrimshalten St Jean Pied de Port has a unique building from the 15th-century along the city's oldest main street. Bayonne railway old half-timbered houses and winding alleys are worth a walk. St Jean de Luz is intimate and charming neighborhood a stone's throw from "sister village" Socoa with similarly Basque character. Ainhoas the main street is the archetypal, Basque architecture.
Ä TA & BO
La Tantina de la Playa
In the village of Bidart, directly on the beach. Pinfärsk fish and seafood in the Spanish-French cuisine, olive oil-Grilled monkfish with Spanish heat is recommended. The maritime restaurant has magnificent views over the Atlantic Ocean. Loud atmosphere, great prices.
www.latantinadelaplaya.com
L ´ Auberge Basque
Sympatiske the chef Cédric Béchade at Hotel Restaurant L'auberge Basque, an innovative cuisine in traditional bottom. Stylish hotel with beautiful rooms in the old 1600-talsdelen. Restaurant and bar of the talssnitt. Trend and tradition.
www.aubergebasque.com
Restaurant Arrambide
– Hotel Les Pyrénées
Hotel in St Jean de Port has one of the region's finest kitchens, kreerat of father and son Arambide. Menus from 40-100 euros. Fresh room.
www.hotel-les-pyrenees.com
Market Hall in Bayonne
Happy Oyster bar to pause the vid for food shopping in fine market Hall. Every Saturday year round is where outdoor food market. Located on the Quai du Commandant Roquebert;
Socoa
The neighbouring village of St Jean de Luz (they are basically combined) has several charming, opretentiösa and affordable restaurants that moves out onto the quay during the summer.
Pierre Oteiza
The uncrowned king ham rescued a dying breed "porc Basque". Today Oteizas loved pigs in green oak woodlands and graze. In the village of Les Aldudes is he shop and simple tasting menu. Air-cured ham, tasty sausage, foie gras and other sweets produced by authentic and unspoiled.
www.pierreoteiza.fr
BEACHES
St Jean de Luz
The northern boundary has quiet bathing water in a lagunartad turn. Nice beach, perfect for the beachwalk, swimming and family swimming.
Bidart
Not long but the wider beach. Family Perfect. Close to a couple of excellent, simple beach bars with Basque cuisine and price friendly menus. This served a tasty three-course meal for 10-12 euros.
Biarritz
World-famous beach and surfing. Funny tittställe. Can get a little crowded during high season.
Hendaye
Border town against Spanish Hondarribia is a magnificent, broad, long beach. This offered the best beachwalken. If you have time, give Hondarribia a chance with its tapas-bars and beautiful neighborhoods of the early Baroque.

Eric Schmidt

"Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it."

Francis Beaumont

"Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us."

Earl Warren

"I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'"

Diane Arbus

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been."

Dramatically on humrarnas island

Take a trip to Ireland, whose dramatic nature takes the breath out of anyone. There is also the chance to eat fresh lobster with a clear conscience.

There are no direct flights from the West Coast and Gothenburg to Ireland. With Ryan Air you can fly from Chicago to London and change there to Dublin. Or travel to Copenhagen, where SAS, Blue1 Airlines and Air Lingus has several daily departures to choose from. The train to Copenhagen gets you off directly into the departure hall at Kastrup. It takes approximately 3.5 hours from central Gothenburg. From Stockholm, the flies SAS and Air Lingus four times a week.

See Ireland on a larger mapGusts change frisyren friendly but firmly.
In the healthy, relatively humid air feels a saltiness. Clips from the scarps collapse straight down in a sea of krusigt. We stick to the official distance as pieces of the porous limestone right as it is the only place in all of Ireland and collapse straight down into the sea. Far where below sea level, it is of course much quieter and down there is lobster.
We are in The Burren, a nature reserve with fantastic rock formations and different vegetation. Here are several beautiful hiking trails, pleasant B & B and of course pubs.
At the bottom of the sea in the reserve are The Cliffs of Moher, today a tourist center that accepts groups for walks around the edge of the stunning clip from the scarps. Everywhere are the yellow and red signs with "Beware, avalanche problems approximately, don't pass this line." Strangely enough, there are people who defy the warnings. Along the cut edge is clearly visible the different layers of the stone, which varies in colour and that built up during the best 300 million years.
By sanctuaries, and throughout Ireland, moreover, runs a number of rivers. They have their flow in open light but also by the mountain and several has its outlet on the West coast of Ireland. Cool healthy syrerikt and mineralhaltigt river water meets the salt in the sea.
Water quality is high and there is a further reason why the lobsters like to keep to this. Several of the rivers has also become an ideal home for the wild salmon.
We go on to Galway to meet Peter Tyndall, professor and fishery area of BIM, Board Lascaigh Mhara, equivalent of marine and water authority. He has promised to take us out to sea in order to gain an insight into hummerfisket. BIM and the Irish fishing industry has the right tough rules for sustainable fishing.
Just like at home, it is prohibited to fish for rombärande females in Ireland. Which is, of course, given that a hummerfiskare that does not secure återfisket soon to be without a job. And here's the really hummerfiske a job and industry. While hummerfisket in Sweden to almost 80 percent consists of recreational fishers, it is virtually the opposite conditions in Ireland.
--A hen lays about 20 000 eggs, but it is perhaps only a single egg that actually have time to grow into a complete hummer, says Peter Tyndall.
Lobster is pretty påpassad, especially females.
"We have a system called V-notching". Females that are added back into the sea in knipsas including. After approximately four years growing tail off again, and during this period, the female will lay several batches of eggs. To catch up and try to sell a stjärtknipsad hen is indictable. Hummerfiskarna here are well aware of their honhumrar. Some provide them with names, says Peter Tyndall.
Hummerfiskarna get paid for each knipsad hummer which they put back into the sea. The system is financed among others by the European Fisheries Fund and has been used in Ireland since 1995. When the borrowed one system from the United States, which in the big hummerfiskeriområdet around Maine made here since the 1940s.
The city of Galway has a beautiful profile even from seaward. We follow with Peter hummerfiskaren and Patrick Oliver on his boat to bring back some of the females that he raised earlier in the day. Patrick Oliver fish here in the area around Galway and is the Chairperson of Galway Bay's local fishing organisation. A bit off but still along the coastal strip, it is time. Peter who is authorized to perform the knipsningen shows how the label.
Later we reach the Howth, a small, sleepy suburb which is situated on a peninsula on the coast just north of Dublin. The fun of Howth is that in the little harbour is probably the most fish restaurants gathered together in one place throughout Ireland. Here you will find everything from the flottare establishment of simple bars and stalls with fuming färskfriterade fish & chips and calamari rings.
In between lies the fish shops, each with its particular speciality.
At the Marina lies the fishing boats on the line and behind the restaurant located in progressing a little neighborhood with small fishing processing industries. King Sitric fish restaurant is one of The more reputable. This couple have Aidan and Joan MacManus drifted restaurant and hotel since 1971 and with honour, presumably. For along the entrance and inside the bar are the awards in a row. the bar and restaurant area on the ground floor is full, but upstairs has a wonderful view over the harbour and Ireland's Eye, the big island outside the Harbour entrance. We are ordering a hummersallad which more than offset exceeds our expectations. Otherwise, Aiden, who reigns in the kitchen, known for its lobsters in Dublin Lawyers sauce. (See recipe on the next spread).
In Howth Castle, Howth is an old castle that was the backdrop for many movies. The castle is privately owned, but parts of the castles rented and operated as a Cookery School. We are a top of the Head, Howths nature reserve. Well allocated where we start our hike on one of the many paths down to the society. Heather around us prisoners all the time the eye with all its colors.
When we get down , it's lunch time, but we are first recorded in any of the fish shops and finds that the price of lobster is a bit higher here than it was on the West Coast. We take us far out on the pier and Aqua Restaurant for lunch. We ordered a Seafood platter and receive a half lobster, oysters, shrimp, hummercocktail, seaweed salad and smoked vildfångad salmon. The price of 30 euros, about $ 250, is really affordable.
If you want to revel in lobster and other seafood, and do not have the opportunity to fish himself is a trip to Ireland is a very good alternative we note on the home voyage. And, not least, the Irish lobster seems to live a good life.

David Shore

"People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort."

Miguel de Cervantes

"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

Real Live Preacher

"Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path."

Alexander Pope

"Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend."

The hotel prices are rising

Hotel prices are rising, particularly in Rio de Janeiro.
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World's hotels are becoming more expensive. For the first time in five years, prices are up again, especially in the United States and Asia. Most of all it cost in Rio de Janeiro.
The average price of apartments rose by 4 percent during the first half of 2012. It shows a report from Hotels.com, based on the site's actual hotel prices for 140,000 hotels worldwide. It is mainly the United States and Asia, which begins to cost more. Most most expensive is Rio de Janeiro, where the average price is 1 980 SEK per night. The increase against the previous year's entire 37 percent.
-The number of Visitors has increased both private and business travellers. It is now also more domestic travelers in the country, affecting prices, says Åsa Söderberg Murphy, the Nordic region Manager for Hotels.com.
Europe is cheaper
Prices in Europe, however, has not gone up as much, on average, only one percent. In some places, they have even fallen, in Athens by 5% and in Marbella with 9 percent.
-For us Swedes, this is an excellent opportunity to enjoy the lower prices in Spain, Greece and Portugal, which we already have a penchant for, says Åsa Söderberg Murphy.
Northern Europe fared better, said she and exemplifies with Paris, London and Stockholm, where prices have risen.  In Paris, the increase 9 percent, and in Frankfurt, where many travels on business, 12 percent.
Cheapest of all countries are Viet Nam, one night in Hanoi is costing 345 kronor and in Ho Chi Minh City 506 SEK.
Most expensive locations. Kroner per night.
Rio de Janeiro, 1 980 kr
Monte Carlo, 1 937 kr
New York, 1 747 kr
Key West, 1,195 kr
Moscow, 1 599 kr
Geneva, 1 588 kr
Boston, $ 1,507
Dubai, 1 474 kr
Zurich, 1404 kr
Frankfurt, 1 384 kr
Cheapest seats. Kroner per night.
Hanoi, 348 kr
Ho Chi Minh City, 506 SEK
Pattaya, 524 kr
Bangkok, 599 kr
Albufeira, 605 kr
Krabi, 609 kr
Fuengirola, 614 kr
Ko Samui, 623 kr
Auckland, 625 kr
Torremolinos: 638 kr
Source: Hotels.com

Denzel Washington

"I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it."

Stephen Ambrose

"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."

Dorothy Parker

"They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm."

Pearl Buck

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up."

Dengue in Madeira

The health authority of Madeira confirms that found 34 cases of dengue on the island, where many Swedish tourists right now.
On Wednesday, authorities found two confirmed cases and worried that an eruption could come. Just two days later, last Friday, the number of cases had risen to 34, according to local media.
Dengue has in recent decades become a serious problem in parts of Asia, Latin America and Africa.
"We have 75 Swedes in Madeira right now, but there are no tourists have become sick of the anophelines go. It is also the laxest form of dengue has been found, "said Magdalena Öhrn, information manager at the wing. -To protect themselves, as they always protect themselves against mosquito, with myggspray and myggolja. But we are following the developments and has staff on site.
The wing does not consider that the risk is so great that there is reason to repatriate Swedes from Madeira, at least not for the moment.
-No, that it is now the hotel areas not affected but mostly private homes. Authorities have informed that they should not have flowers and pots on fat on balconies and in gardens because if there is a little water left on the drums like anophelines go there.
TT: are the Swedish tourists worried about?
-No, no tourists have been hit. I think we've got a question for our staff on the ground, "says Öhrn.

Pizza is Italian pride. Now the dish had its own museum.

Dan Millman

"The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for."

Edith Sitwell

"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Strive for excellence, not perfection."

Henry Adams

"Friends are born, not made."

Strike threatens Norwegian

Norwegians aircraft can remain on the ground from the night of Wednesday. Cabin unions have threatened strike action unless the arbitrators get to a solution when it comes to working conditions is 836 cabin staff on strike, the NTB.
According to the mediators, the parties are relatively far apart.
In Sweden, the influence of an air strike on Norwegian is quite small. It is only the Norwegian crews that are strejkvarslade. Some of the departures, which are flown by Norwegian crew Stockholm-Oslo and Stockholm-Copenhagen can, however, be set up, according to Åsa Larsson, head of the Norwegian.
In Norway, on the other hand, a major impact on the conflict breaks out during the night of Wednesday.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!"

Jacques Delille

"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."

Carl Schurz

"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other."

Clarence Darrow

"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

Ryanair's new scandals

It blows on Ryanair. In the short term, the low-fare carrier has been hit by several scandals. By leaving one of their plane left all passagere-who was forced to go home without help.
On Friday, the family Axelsson fly home from vacation in Croatia with Ryanair. But the plane was running empty back to Sweden, because of strong winds. Airport staff in Rijeka, convey what Ryanair welcomed: "passengers may take home best they want", writes Aftonbladet.
-So bad I never thought that they would behave, "said Mirva Axelsson, told the newspaper.
The family received the check flights, transfers and hotels, which cost about 8,000 dollars. Ryanair argued, however, that the emailed passengers with offer to reschedule the trip for free. For Aftonbladet, they said, too, that the family would be compensated.
This is just one of several scandals that Ryanair has been involved in lately. Here are three other events that create attention.
Expensive boarding cards
British Suzy McLeod travelled with Ryanair from Alicante in Spain to Bristol, England. She checked it in as it should be on the home page, but forgot to print the boardingkorten. When she was forced to pay a surcharge of EUR 60 per card, there was a total of about 2 600 SEK. Suzy McLeod wrote about the incident on Facebook: "push like if you feel that this is unfair." The post received over 500,000 likes. Some believe, however, that the airline was right.
Call the customer stupid
After Suzy Mcleod entered his post on facebook about extraavgifterna on boardingkorten commented CEO Michael O'Leary event. He said that travellers who are going without boarding cards at the airport is "stupid" and that those who don't like the rule can tighten the hell.
Many emergency landings
Recently, Ryanair has been noted for its many emergency landings, several of which have been in Spain. In mid-september nödlandade two planes in Spanish airports after the pilot stressed on technical problems. In July, three of the company's aircraft landed at Valencia airport on the same day, because of fuel shortages and in early september had two planes go when the cabin pressure dropped suddenly. Ryanair believes that the Spanish authorities operates a war against it, type the DN.
According to Aftonbladet, due to the many nödlandningarna that the company saves on fuel and do not fill the tank enough for unforeseen events.

John Muir

"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild."

Thomas Moore

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."

Andrea Bocelli

"All that counts in life is intention."

Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper."

Gilda Radner

"I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

Ann Richards

"I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back."

Howard Thurman

"Follow the grain in your own wood."

Brendan Francis

"People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly."

Og Mandino

"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success."

Thomas Jefferson

"I cannot live without books."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation."

Beverly Sills

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

Owen Wister

"When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have."

Francis Ford Coppola

"You don�t have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form."

Alanis Morissette

"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."

John Viscount Morley

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends."

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

"It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry."

N. Sri Ram

"There is no wisdom without love."

John W. Gardner

"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."

L. M. Montgomery

"It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?"

David Foster

"There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function."

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys."

Zelda Fitzgerald

"[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn�t boring."

Mason Cooley

"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."

Thomas a Kempis

"Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good."

Mark Twain

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Elizabeth Janeway

"I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one."

J. K. Rowling

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."

Japanese Proverb

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."

Real Live Preacher

"No one forgives with more grace and love than a child."

Cynthia Ozick

"To want to be what one can be is purpose in life."

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

"Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends."

Alice May Brock

"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."

Chuck Palahniuk

"The things you own end up owning you."

Sir Winston Churchill

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Matthew Arnold

"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

Albert Camus

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day."

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Fairytale castle sits - we sit up in France

Chateau d ' Ygrande, Moulins sur Allier, Auvergne, France

Season: Horseback riding is offered year round. The hotel is closed January and February.

Horses: Over 40 horses, including Thoroughbred, Irish crosses, and ponnys. They are trotted with English equipment and ridstil. The horses are sensitive, välridna and harmonious. Dressage horses at level up to St George.

Equipment:Please bring your own shoes, shortchaps, gloves and ridbyxor. Helmets are available.

Price: 26 EUR/h with instructor (at least two participants). It is also possible to book a package with several lessons.

Home page: www.chateauygrande.fr

Booking: Package tour goes to book via Greenways travel www.greenways.se

Price example: 8 495 SEK. The price includes: 5 nights in a double room standard (single room supplement charge) breakfast, lunch and dinner (excl. drinks), 4 riding lessons à 2 hours. The price does not include aviation and transportation to the Castle.

So take you there: Flights to Paris: Price as t/r with Norwegian 1 600 SEK. Greenways travel can book in advance rent a car from the airport. Train: Paris-Moulins sur Allier reservation on Voyages-sncf.com. Prices are between 25 and 50 euros one-way road. The sooner you book, the greater the chance of finding a cheap ticket. Transport from the train station at Moulins-sur-Alliers to Chateau Y ' Grande can be booked via the Greenway travel or at the reception at the Castle. Paid in cash and costs about 50 euros one-way road/car.

This is also: Bicycles, table tennis, billiards, spa, rowing boat, excursions. There are a number of vineyards, castles and other attractions to visit in the area.

In the beautiful region of the Auvergne, only two and a half hours by train from Paris, Allier, France's second-densest Castle. In the 20th century were the many small castles vacation homes for wealthy parisare, now have some turned into hotels. A short drive from the small village of Moulins is the beautiful countryside and a pleasant tranquility arises when we go through the Grand tree Avenue and finally Rolls onto the gravel availability in front of the Chateau D ' Ygrande.

Just above a large pond surrounded by willows and with an unparalleled view of a kulligt landscape, dark castle themselves. In the endless green surroundings visible horses stroll and beta grass or galloped off into the sunset.

The Castle owner Pierre-Marie Tissier, explains that he wants the environment should feel familiar and charming rather than chic and luxurious. The Castle and of the equine farm, which has two large utomhusvolter, a smaller ring, a horse racing course, obstacle park and access to fälttävlansbana has been in his possession since 1997. After working 20 years in the medical industry and traveled around the world and visited many hotels saw Pierre-Marie his chance to gather their impressions and their interest in horses under a single roof-a refuge for those who want to enjoy horse riding, good food and beautiful surroundings.

On the farm there are over 40 Canter and dressage horses. And here both beginners (like myself) who experienced riders in dressage, eventing, and show jumping to get out as much of the training session, which was set up upon request. My first lesson am I familiarize myself with Freddy a sensitive former Racecourse horse. My French teacher, Norbert Chevrot, a resilient spirit of marlboro smoke in the forties who competes in dressage, show teaching how to keep hold of Freddy's bones when I clean the shoes and how I'm going to brush his fur. As the stall a novice I am I am glad when he praises my effort.

Well up on top of the horse and inside this troupe is the time to go through the basics.

-Forward with the hips! Down with heels!, cried the English and peppande instructor Susan Roberts acting as interpreter during the lesson.

As soon as we started trava is a lot to think about, and lifting so that easy and smooth in the saddle, is proving to be easier said than done. We piled around and around in this troupe, switching direction, increasing the pace, the pace slows, stops suddenly.

Susan and Norbert reminds us constantly that I should shorten the reins, stretch your back, keeping me on the edge of this troupe, push up the butt, take down the heels, and look where I am.

-Bravo!, cried, Norbert encouraging when I stand up in the saddle while turning a blind eye and trying to find balance.

I'm knackered after the first lesson, but really roused and excited to learn. Early the next morning, I hear that it is a "big improvement", and I get trava fun course and skritta over obstacles. Third day, it is to my great pleasure time galloped off into the sunset, hey what you can!

A perfect way to rest up and relax training ache between ridlektionerna is to relax at the swimming pool next to the lush garden or visit the Turkish bath in the spa department where you can also book your beauty treatments, which is exactly what I do. A whole-body massage does wonders for both body and soul. Not to mention the delicious meals taken in the stylish dining room or if the weather permits outside on the terrace.

Last days I spend uteritter in the surroundings of the Castle. And there is the small minimum romantically inclined, it is good fortune by dense deciduous forests and green meadows, past the large cornfield and undulating landscapes a never-ending source of well-being. When we pass a small pond and see Chateau d ' Ygrande torna resigned as fund far over there, so I feel it is a little like being in a fairy tale.