Friday, May 2, 2008

So what's in a name?

So in case you were wondering... we are calling our new home Malinka Montreux... it combines a couple elements from our last 4 years into something semi meaningful... and since we consider this our retirement home (of course we will move again, but we have no plans of selling this property).

Malinka = Russian for "small" or "little" (Малинка)
Montreux = small town in Switzerland on the shore of Lake Geneva

Malinka represents our time of living and working in Russia, which is where the idea for this property came from... where we spent lots of time going through ideas and from where we traveled quite a bit to learn some of the things / styles we like.

Montreux represents memories of a wonderful music / jazz festival held every summer in Montreux Switzerland. For us... Montreux is more about water, relaxation, sun, beautiful scenary, good food and drink, and an eclectic and very diverse crowd.