“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. -air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. -all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
Traveling is not always about comfort for your body, it is usually about comfort for your soul...
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//Gynte
Windy days, fear of big waves, salty water in the nose and eyes, long nights with the good company, delicious seafood and much more during one week in Fuerteventura island - highly recommended! <3
I am not a big fan of snow actually, I prefer it mostly just on photos :) But it looks pretty well on a video as well :)
However, skiing with family was really super duper fun! <3
/Gynte
The more North in South Island, the bigger chance to enjoy nice and sunny weather. Lucky we, beautiful weather let us bike around Marlborough wineries, walk Abel Tasman National park track and finally watch the smallest and rarest dolphins in the world in Akaroa.
It was a big pleasure to see you New Zealand! hope to see you soon again!:)
//Gynte
Almost a month in New Zealand passed by so fast! 4000 km by car and all these great walks leaves the indelible memory on South Island. This video is just a half of the trip which started from Christchurch, went down to Aramoana, looked around Catlins area, flew over to Steward Island, back to Queenstown, Wanaka, Mt. Cook and back to Christchurch for some chill out, laundry and longer sleep.
Everyday I got to see something I have never seen or experienced before, everyday made me gasp in amazement...
Hugs,
Gynte
Christmas time is a good chance to have a bigger party with your friends than usual, a possibility to meet old good friends in your home country, to eat as much mom's food as possible without feeling guilty, to spend some quality time with your family and the most important - to be close my niece and nephew!:)
One Saturday morning you wake up and you wanna paint... nothing else but paint... not even pee, just paint:) Straight forward to Ikea, buy a chair and paint it every evening after work for the whole week. Saying No to anything your friends suggesting, because the only thing you wanna do it's just PAINT... This is how that mysterious inspiration feels like:)
//Gynte
The last days of summer season were spent hanging with mum and dad in Stockholm city. Kayaks, parks, museums, shops and walking perfectly matched with lots of laughing and a little bit of fighting ;) Thanks to the Mr Weather as well - you were really kind to us :)
//Gynte
I have just come back from the coolest multicultural wedding party where I left this acrylic flowered wooden chair. Yes, from now on Gamze and Nicolas gonna have sit and share only one chair:) Long live love! <3
//Gynte
The whole weekend of laughing, singing, deep talking, partying, swiming, joking and much more with the great company in one of 30 000 Stockholm archipelago islands. Good company and nature rules!:)
Hugs,
//Gynte
A piece of furniture is always a good present to a housewarming party :)
Hope Ruta and Hughes will have the best long breakfast at their new cozy flat:)
//Gynte
I am not the biggest fan of winter and snow, but I can admit that the weekend in the northernmost town in Sweden was fantastic :) Now I know what dog sledding means and how to drive snowmobile, how the Ice Hotel looks like and how nice Sami church is.
Big applause to my friends for all the organisation and thank you for such a great time together! :)
//Gynte
I get questions sometimes about how long does it take to make a hat at home. This video does't tell that it takes 3 minutes to make it, but if you count how many different t-shirts I wear in the video, would understand how many days it takes :) joke :)
Well... it actually takes about four days for the hat to dry after it is stretched on a hatblock. But then you have plenty of time to prepare the trimming you would like on your hat. Once it get dry and trimmed, a cotton ribbon has to be sewn by hand inside the hat.
That's all... Ready to wear... :) #daretowearahat
//Gynte
Gintare tried to put some more memories into video format for the first time:) Really enjoyed these couple of evenings while doing that...:) I find it important with documentary, from now on I will try to do it in video as well;)
Soundtrack: Matt Corby ''Resolution''
Greetings,
//Gynte
My New Years Eve going to be in the air somewhere in between Sweden and Thailand. Sitting in the plane and worrying that the hats are already squashed in the luggage:)
However, I hope you will have a great New Years Eve! Hold peaple you love closer to you - it will be much warmer that way;)
And for the next year I wish you to dare to dream more... and... to dare to make your dreams come true...:)
Hugs...
//Gynte
