TRAVEL HAPPY

The Business of Chocolate and Money

Läderach chocolate was the highlight of my 48 hours in Zurich, Switzerland this past week.  After 10 years of absence in private banking, I stepped off  the elevator of the fourth floor to rooms named after money centers of the world.  This is Zurich, in its true sense.  A bank not on every corner, but a bank,  a bank and a bank... all in a row.  But it is the chocolate that has me travel happy senses wide open!

Freshness, artisanal, individuality and family are the values of Läderach.  mine too.

photo of the store at the Zurich HB  train station.  My selection?  darkest chocolate with gold leaf and toasted euroscreaming hazelnut milk chocolate. . . paid for by a banker.  : )

shoot lots of shots - travel photos

CARBON COPY - Take off- digital collage by TAS - lilboutlot

 overboard/carbon copy copyright 2008  TAS

Never thought a photo of a wounded Vietnamese albino rabbit,  a morning sky over Angkor Wat, along with the antlers of a deer that hung on a wall of a New Zealand tavern, would be the heros of  my artwork on tshirts, posts and keds shoes. My advice:   shoot lots of shots  as you take off and travel happy.   

 

memorable memories views- Why take photos

TAS copyright 2008  from photos taken in 2007 , Addo Elephant Reserve Lion on the Wild Coast, the Bubo bird Sumatra, Indonesia, and volcano lava expanded from Island of Hawaii 2000, Sapa, Vietnam trees 2008,  girl, hand drawn 2008.

I noticed my experiences of travel and my memories are kept fresh, when I take photos.  I spent a lot of my life being smug and saying hey,  I want to EXPERIENCE my trip, the view and the action, not photo it and look at it as a memory!... and my perspective has changed.  After traveling through the Wild Coast of Africa, hour after hour on roads with signs that say "pot hole ahead" versus having it fixed, I started to search out the round huts, all painted color on color.  I spent the day snapping photos through a bus window. It became a safari game drive for me. . .   some amazing shots of people and objects, hidden in the landscapes. I  fell in love with color.  Someday  I'll go. . . to visit on the the Wild Coast, and drive slowly, taking in the views.  Check out the photos named BUS BLUR on the left to see some fuzzy surprises.  And remember take off - senses wide open.

digital images by TAS,  click and pick