The Yellow House

"Sorrow prepares you for joy. 

It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. 

It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. 

It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. 

Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place."

Rumi

Sibiu - Bohemian Atmosphere Behind Medieval Walls

"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. 

And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."

Roman Payne

MySpot: Summer Streets

"In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, 

waiting for something to happen."

Steven Millhauser - Dangerous Laughter

France, Loire Valley - Tours II (The Old City)

Tours is famous for its original medieval district, called Le Vieux Tours. 

Unique to the Old City are its preserved half-timbered buildings and the Place Plumereau, 

a square with busy pubs and restaurants, whose open-air tables fill the centre of the square. 

France, Loire Valley - Tours

Tours is a city located in the west-central part of France. 

It is the administrative centre of the Indre-et-Loire department and the largest city in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France 

(although it is not the capital, which is the region's second-largest city, Orléans). 

Tours stands between Orléans and the Atlantic coast, and between two rivers, the Loire to the north and the Cher to the south, 

and it's famous for its many bridges crossing the river Loire. 

The city is called "Le Jardin de la France" ("The Garden of France"). 

The buildings of Tours are white with blue slate (called Ardoise) roofs; 

this style is common in the north of France, while most buildings in the south of France have terracotta roofs.

Tours is also the end-point of the annual Paris–Tours cycle race.

The surrounding district, the traditional province of Touraine, 

is known for its wines, for the alleged perfection of its local spoken French, and for the Battle of Tours (732). 

Sibiu - Wandering through the Streets of the Town

The hidden alleys that whisper of secrets to be found, 

the charm of the village architecture...