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Nice Maldivian breakfast this morning…curry baked beans, made with small pieces of smoked tuna (valhomas).You eat that with roti and scoop it up,no cutlery.
What are you having for Sunday breakfast?
I went for a really nice hike yesterday in a piece of forest that’s just oak trees and heather. It’s so beautiful this time of the year! It may sound a little morbid, but I loved that there were so many ancient and dead oak trees. They’re absolutely gorgeous. I also took some [photos ](https://imgur.com/a/kGIogBC)for an art project. I will call it “The Dead among the Living”.
Dead or winter trees make such great art subjects. You can see the shape of the trunk and branches much better. [Caspar David Friedrich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairn_in_Snow#/media/File:Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Cairn_in_Snow_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) painted them a lot. [One of my favorite DA artists](https://www.deviantart.com/darkroots77/art/Oak-and-Moon-976587346) also has some beautiful oak drawings. So, now I also want to have a go.
So there are elections in two states today (Thuringia and Saxony), and it’s really not looking good for friends of democracy. The AfD in Thuringia (which is officially regarded as right-wing extremist) was forced by a court to allow journalists to their election party tonight – so they just cancelled the whole thing instead. At least they won’t get into the government, because everybody else is refusing to cooperate with them… so far. Who knows how long that promise will hold (looking at you CxU).
[A reindeer has joined two hikers in Northern Finland](https://yle.fi/a/74-20108510). It’s normal for reindeer to roam around in a large area, but it’s not that common for one to simply start hanging around with hikers. Yesterday, it accompanied the hikers for the entire 20 km journey they hiked that day.
The hikers emphasize they’ve been respectful of the animal, knowing that despite showing some pretty tame behaviour, it is more wild than it is tame.