12 Fun Facts about me
I have a twin sister and she was born fifteen minutes after me.
As children we were absolutely inseparable!
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.
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.
Vending machine photo 1983
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!
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!
Der Strand von Burleigh Heads, Queensland
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
My favourite colour is very
obvious:
🌸 PINK 🌸