Dönnerstag is back!

Hello all my friends!

How are you all? I hope the past month was as amazing for you as it was for me! Well, I had so many days with people I love, that I cannot be more ready for the new challenges this summer is bringing to me...

Today our Dönnerstag will be a bit different. I will share some really cool links with you, of course! However, I will do it througout this text... So, whenever there is a link, click on it and check what susprises are there hidden...

My family came here to visit me and it was awesome! I really loved sharing a little bit of my everyday life here in Berlin with them...  We had a roadtrip from Berlin to Amsterdam, passing through Hamburg. Besides that, a friend of mine also came to visit me and we headed to Paris for an amazing 5 days trip.

Well, what can I say? Paris is amazing. All of that History going on... If in Berlin I am surrounded by so many stuff that made this century what it is today, in Paris it is more than that. Almost everywhere you go you have monuments and things that remind you of at least three centuries of History. Things that are directly related to what we have been for the past four centuries. And you can't deny that besides the French Revolution and Napoleon, the city has its special charm, that you can feel whenever you are walking on the Champs Elysée, checking out the museums, going to MontMartre or when you stop by any café... 

But one thing happened. The chemestry didn't hit. I don't know why, but I believe I am not a Paris person. I don't know if it was the french way of bein blasé or what... We just didn't work out. And I must confess: with all their huge impressing monuments, I wasn't as impressed there, as I was in Amsterdam, especially by the Keukenhof, this amazing Tulip Park. I was in Amsterdam with my family (only my middle sister was not there, and I really missed her) and it was really good to spend time together, seeing the everyday life of the dutch people and, specially, getting to see the Tulips! Just take a look and keep in mind the picture did not get even 10% of the real beauty of the Keukenhof Park...

Well, I do believe Paris is amazing and that some people fall in love with the city almost instantly. But maybe I need some more time... Maybe it will happen in our second or third date.

Hugs and kisses!

Notre amour

– Mas e pra que serve isso? – perguntou o senhor, com seus cabelos grisalhos, à mulher.

– São cadeados, meu amor... – disse ela, enquanto forçava os olhos pra olhar mais adiante procurando pela Catedral de Notre-Dame.

– Isso eu sei, né! Mas por que tantos cadeados nessa ponte?

– Ah, são os casais que fazem isso... É pra ficarem presos um ao outro. Se você vier aqui, prender um cadeado nessa ponte e jogar a chave no rio, o amor fica seguro e os dois ficam juntos pra sempre. Como que amarrados um ao outro – explicou ela sem dar muita atenção a ele, enquanto olhava no mapa.

– Hum... Cadê o nosso cadeado, então? Vou ali comprar um... – disse ele, como que resolvendo um problema prático, que acabava de apresentar-se a ele.

Nesse instante ela parou o que estava fazendo e olhou nos olhos dele:

– Querido, estamos juntos há 40 anos... Dá pra ficar mais amarrado que isso?

Ele sorriu. Deu dois passos na direção dela. Passou a mão em sua cintura, trazendo-a mais pra perto. E a beijou.

Versão em inglês

Notre amour

– So… What is this all about? – asked the man with gray hair.

– Those are padlocks, my love... – answered her, while looking for the Notre-Dame.

– Well, that I can see! But why are there so many locks in this bridge?

– Oh, that! It is just a silly thing young couples do… It is supposed to make a couple locked to one another. You should write the names on the locker and put it here, in the bridge, lock it, and throw the key away on the river… That should keep the love safe and also make the couple stay together forever. It is like if you were tied to each other – taught her, without caring much, while looking at her map.

– I see… In that case, I will buy a locker for us – answered him, as if this was a new practical problem he had just recently realized.

In that moment she finally stopped doing her things and looked up. She turned to him and said:

– Oh, my love… Do you really think we need this? We are locked to each other for the past 40 years. Do we think it gets more tied than this?

He smiled at her and came a bit closer. With his hand around her waist, he pressed his body against hers. And then, they kissed.

Portuguese version