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12 Fun Facts about me

I have a twin sister and she was born fifteen minutes after me.

As children we were absolutely inseparable!

black & white photo of twin female toddlers
Twins

Her name is Cornelia and she is my closest reference person.
I cannot imagine a life without her as a person of my heart, best friend, ally and confidant -
I'm extremely happy to have her!

As a child I loved Schlager and was a big fan of Rex Gildo and Lena Valaitis. After schooI I used to listen to pop records for hours.

Lena Valaitis 1974 Cover
Rex Gildo cover
drawing of clown handstand comics from Ted Scapa

Image source: Ted Scapa

When I was 10, I entered a Ted Scapa* painting competition

won the 2nd prize 🤗

The big box of colored pencils accompanied me for a long time in my early days as a little artist.

Unfortunately I no longer have the original drawing. The clown looked something like this

*CH-NL Artist (* 1931  in Amsterdam - ✝ 1923 in Bern)

I was once seen on the catwalk as a hair model at a fashion show. My mother's hairdresser hired me. It was my last experience as a model. I would never put myself through this stress behind the scenes again.

black & white photo of the artist Beatrice Del Conte 1983

Vending machine photo 1983

Fextal in the Engadine, Watercolor 2018

In the summer of 1984 I spent two weeks on a farm in Graubünden and helped with haying on a Maiensäss. Without running water in the house and the toilet outside next to the stable, I was closer to nature than I've ever been before.

Fextal in the Engadine, watercolor
© Beatrice Del Conte, 2018

I had been a big fan of Peter Reber since my hotel internship in Interlaken in 1985 and ordered an autographed CD from him.

 

Whenever I hear his songs, they remind me of that time; cheerful, careless and every day was big adventure!

Peter Reber signierte CD
Buch Das Mondpferd
Autogramm Federica de Cesco

I have read almost all of Federica de Cesco's books. When I was working as a hotel receptionist in Lucerne, one day she was guest for a reading. I brought my favorite book and asked her for an autograph. She signed it with much love and a little drawing.

In the early 1990s I seriously considered emigrating to Australia.

I really liked the country and its people! But without my twin sister? Never!

Burleigh Heads

Der Strand von Burleigh Heads, Queensland

Farbfoto Agenda Fatzer Verlag

For over 30 years I have been keeping the small, fine agenda from Fatzer-Verlag, where I still enter important dates, birthdays and holidays by hand.

An electronic agenda confuses me and is out of the question for me.

I love truffles of all kinds, but especially those with alcohol: rum truffles, Baileys, cognac, Grand Marnier... absolutely delicious!

I like everything with chocolate and love baking brownies. See recipe in my Blog

Choclate Selection
Beatrice Del Conte Portrait rose

My favourite colour is very

obvious:

🌸 PINK 🌸

My favourite drink is Rosé Prosecco which I enjoy most in the company of dear friends.

For more fun facts go to my blog article
17 fun facts about me

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