Our invitation is to go Sciliar, preferably after making a visit to the Tourist Association Sciliar. Where is that? Let Eve to tell you about it, she knows everything that is useful for you, for a holiday on the snow, on the border between Italy and Austria, on the border with the magic. Your contribution, tell us a your travel …
Read More »UNITED COLOURS OF WINE – In vino veritas. In wine is truth
SHORT ABC ABOUT WINE – A: Titus Maccius Plautus: Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. B: Robert Louis Stevenson: Wine is bottled poetry. D: Paul Tillich: Wine is like the incarnation – it is both divine and human. E: Alexander Fleming: Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. F: Latin Proverb: Without bread and wine, love goes hungry. G: Galileo …
Read More »UNITED COLORS OF CHILDHOOD – The gardens of distant lands motionless, where, between sobs, blooms trust.
OPEN ARMS – U. Bellintani: I ran in the gardens with open arms to encircle universes, in little and nothing, of spaces and butterflies. SONGS AWAY – C. Rebora: Sung song Cradle, while declines down. HORSES WOOD – A. Heinzelmann: I had in the hands the lever of Archimedes, when I galloped on wooden horse, towards the star of Andromeda …
Read More »YOUR HOME IN GREECE: Corfu, Ionian archipelago, moving among olive groves and old farmhouses
Normally, Meeting Benches not accept editorial contributions which are related to commercial activities. Our friend Vassilis, we made an exception. In fact, we are grateful to him for letting us know some names of his treasure chest of memories, but we do not publish the name of his estate agency. Our invitation is to go to Corfu, preferably after doing …
Read More »UNITED COLORS OF IDENTITY – Perimeter of emotions and twilights, flies in the trash and fireflies flashing
BORDERS – M. Fortunato: I do not know what my features, nor the exact perimeter of the emotions. INFINITI OTHER – PF D’Arcais: It is recognized, one of the countless other “one”, to him equal in dignity. BEING OTHER – SR Becher: Fear is having a thought. Fear that, with this thought, we can no longer continue to live, as …
Read More »UNITED COLOURS OF “SOMETIMES” – Sometimes, it is the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination
INVISIBLE TO THE EYE – H. Jackson Brown, Jr: Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. DARKEST OF DARKNESS – Phoebe Snow: Sometimes when you’re overwhelmed by a situation – when you’re in the darkest of darkness – that’s when your priorities are reordered. HIDDEN WITHIN – Anurag Prakash Ray: Sometimes we hurt ourselves more than anyone …
Read More »BIG MAYOR KAY, BAHAMAS: A “good retreat”, including stories of pirates and white beaches, including pink flamingos and pink pigs
Johnny. His real name is another, but he wants his editorial contribution remains anonymous because 700 islands – a few steps from Florida – are they not sufficient to hide who he is. Meeting Benches respects the choice of this new friend, and thanked him, because only those who live in that small paradise of the Atlantic Ocean is able …
Read More »UNITED COLOURS OF MADNESS – The absurdity dozing in the cradle, holding up a finger to the sun.
SURRENDERING – E. Jabès: The house of the crowds dozing in the cradle, that the hands of the nurse are swinging. The house of crazy swings, the trees, the leaves hide – ON THE TOPSOIL – E. Verhaeren: Growing nonsense, like a flower fatal, in the soil of the senses. I want to go into madness, and his alone. FOOLS …
Read More »DENMARK & ICELAND: The charm of grace, the wonder of nature
IN THE BAY OF PERFUME, HONK KONG: Susie Wang left her charm, in this corner of China, including islands and secluded temples scented
She are not Susie Wong, but the peculiarity of the routes that she offers us is an incredible charm. The editors of the Meeting Benches is extremely grateful for the contribution that publishing this woman of China (Hong Kong provides our readers. For friends who want to contribute: info@meetingbenches.com An evening cruise of at least four hours, with Susie – …
Read More »UNITED COLORS OF THE PAST: With bright or dark horror joy, dancing in the grass seeds made of flesh
ROOTS OF HEAVENLY – Li-chi, the Chinese text: All things have their roots in the sky. The man is rooted in his ancestors. JOYFUL DANCE – R. Carrieri: We find ourselves in the ancestors, as slaves of a dance. We repeat the arrogance, and a joy with no hope. INDELIBLY OBLIVION – T. Hardy: I’m the face of the family. …
Read More »“PYAN DOR MAI.” SEE YOU IN YANGON: Four pagodas, the National Museum and Bogyoke Market. Welcome to Burma
After the paradise of Florida, we have received a number of editorial contributions from Asia. Among them, Meeting Benches chose that of a woman, because the entire staff has closely seen the extraordinary simplicity and freshness of the style of Nargis (who also sent us a picture of her). Looking at your beautiful eyes blacks, we enter in your travel …
Read More »THE KEYS TO HEAVEN? IN FLORIDA: From the air, or water, in the same blue color. Not to mention a dinner at The Fish House
What we are submerged is not water, but an incredible amount of beautiful travel stories, Florida. Twice already, Benches Meeting hosted the editorial contributions of friends and readers, but now we are forced to add a new one, because a reader sent us his email, along with the keys of heaven. Thank you, Georgia. For any reader who wishes to …
Read More »UGLY, DIRTY AND BAD ?: Open your eyes, to the murals in Bratislava
UNITED COLORS OF BODY: Keep the skin, his tunic, under the tent eyelashes, flying the divine wind
SKIN – P. Valéry: What is it, deeper, in the human being, is the skin. ALI – William Blake: The eternal body of man is the imagination. EYES – A. Blok: Under the tent eyelashes, the eyes appear nightly campfires. CAPTIVITY – Lope de Vega: I am neither good nor evil to me, but I said my understanding, that a …
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