Author: lapelazzuli

Alsazia 2026

We were supposed to spend the Pfingsferien in Toscana like last year, but we had to change plan at the end and we decided for Alsace!
We started in Frankfurt, a weekend to support our Wanda at the Deutsche Cheerleading Meistershaft. For the occasion we booked a couple of days at the Niu hotel , and it was also the opportunity to spend some quality time with my son Diego.
We then drove to Riquewihr in Alsace. We stayed 4 days there. A lovely old town, and we stayed at Le Schoenenbourg , which I liked a lot. We visited Colmar and the surroundings, tasted local wine and food, watched the Roland Garros, enjoyed the pool and our beautiful family.
Then we spend 2 more days In Freiburg: first day we visited the city, very nice and full of young people; second day was spent in Rulantica for the joy of Diego and Wanda.

It was a plan B, but it turned to be a beautiful vacation with my family – in Alsace and Freiburg. And we, Guni, Wanda, Diego, and me, showed again to be flexible, open, resilient; because we love each other and we love the time we spend together.

Books, lately

I just completed reading The 3 Body’s Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin, which I liked with alternate feelings. The ideas were quite intriguing; however, I found the story overly speculative given its length, and at times it was difficult to connect the different eras and the leaps from one situation to another.. Additionally, the Chinese names were difficult for me to remember and figure.

Before that, during the summer, I enjoyed Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke.

Currently, I am into Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which, based on the first 20%, was probably a wrong choice due the too many spiders and ants, altough the story itself seems quite interesting.

Sci-fi remains my favourite genre, although the last two books I finished did not leave a significant mark on my memory or thoughts.