Celebrations around the world , Welcome 2013!!

Edinburgh, Scotland.

"As you all can see the ball has stopped half way to its porch. It's suspended there to remind us before we pop the champagne and celebrate the New Year, to stop and reflect on the year that has gone by. To remember both our triumphs and our missteps, our promises made and broken. The times we opened ourselves up to great adventures or close ourself down for fear of getting hurt. Cause that's what New Year's is all about, getting another chance. The chance to forgive, to do better, to do more, to give more, to love more. And stop worrying about what if and start embracing what will be. So when that ball drops at midnight, and it will drop, let's remember to be nice to each other, kind to each other. 

And not just tonight, but all year long."

-Hilary Swank, New Year's eve movie-

 "Como todos pueden ver, la esfera se detuvo a mitad de camino. Esta suspendida ahí para recordarnos que antes de abrir las botellas de champaña y celebrar el Año Nuevo, deberiamos detenernos a reflexionar sobre el año que dejamos atrás. Para recordarnos tanto nuestros triunfos, como los fracasos... promesas que hemos hecho & las que no hemos cumplido. Los momentos en los que nos abrimos a grandes aventuras o nos cerramos por miedo a ser heridos. Porque de todo esto se trata el año nuevo, recibir otra oportunidad. Una oportunidad para perdonar, para ser mejor, lograr más, dar más y amar mejor. Y dejar de preocuparnos por el "¿Qué hubiera pasado?" y empezar a aceptar lo que será. Por eso, cuando esta esfera baje a media noche, porque va a caer, nos acordemos de ser amables y buenos unos con los otros.

 Y no solo esta noche, sino por todo el año." 

-Hilary Swank, New Year's eve movie-

Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Times square, New York City, USA.

Sydney, Australia.

Beijing, China.

Kelaniya temple, Gampaha, Sri Lanka.

London eye, London, United Kingdom.

Moscow, Russia.

Geneva, Switzerland.

Dakar, Senegal.

Cape Town, South Africa.

Big Ben, London, United Kingdom.

Beijing, China.

Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy.

Taipei, Taiwan.

Grossmuenster cathedral, Zurich, Switzerland.

Times, Square, New York City, USA.

Parthenon, Athens, Greece.

Times Square, New York City, USA.

Millennium Wheel, London, United Kingdom.

Madeira, Portugal.

Times Square, New York City, USA.

Smama Gora Hill, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

Big Ben, London, United Kingdom.

Myomma, Yangon, Myanmar. 

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Forest outside Kransnoyarsk, Russia.

Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

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A day in Venice

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs,
    A palace and a prison on each hand:
    I saw from out the wave her structures rise
    As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand:
    A thousand years their cloudy wings expand
    Around me, and a dying Glory smiles
    O'er the far times, when many a subject land
    Looked to the wingéd Lion's marble piles,
Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles!

    She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean,
    Rising with her tiara of proud towers
    At airy distance, with majestic motion,
    A ruler of the waters and their powers:
    And such she was--her daughters had their dowers
    From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East
    Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers:
    In purple was she robed, and of her feast
Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased.

    In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more,
    And silent rows the songless gondolier;
    Her palaces are crumbling to the shore,
    And music meets not always now the ear:
    Those days are gone--but Beauty still is here;
    States fall, arts fade--but Nature doth not die,
    Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear,
    The pleasant place of all festivity,
The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy!
Lord George Byron

Video. Joerg Niggli  

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