mARTathon

Bijschrift toevoegen

We hadn't seen each other for three, maybe even four years. Far too long. Today they were here to pick up some paintings which were left unsold after we closed our art gallery in 2012. Or was it 2011?.
Mino, short for Dominiq Gonseth, and her husband Rudy Alleyn. 'Blacky' we nicknamed him somewhere in 2005. Or 2006. Boy,oh boy, my memory is getting too short for the number of years  I have to remember!

The last couple of years Blacky had been training in the Swiss Alps to participate marathons. Our friends live in Switzerland so training in the mountains is not as exotic as it sounds. As he was going to participate the Rotterdam marathon both he was 'in the neighborhood' and thus able to come along and pick up Mino's oilpaintings. As some of the paintings were rather large, the car was completely stucked. I asked him where he would leave the paintings while he was joining the marathon. "You can't take them along" I said. "Why not?" he asked. Can you imagine? Athletes carrying paintings across Rotterdam during the marathon? We just created a whole new sport: marthaton.