glimpse of mexico

two tickets to paradise :)

one flat island

when we had arrived

in turks and caicos

i realized the island we wound up on...

albeit beautiful, was one of the flattest places i've ever seen...

and i've been to quite a few places!

we had a lovely time in turks and caicos,

swimming

tanning

munching on snacks

and drinking the local beers

that we almost didn't want to come home.

(eventually, we figured we had to because we missed our puppy-baby way too much)

this beer was rather heavy for our tastes...

i got way loopy!!

maybe next time i'll try another!

love me,

the globetrotting gamine

i loved this turtle

remembering summer moments

turtles that swim
and the beautiful sounds of summer...

it's just happiness :)

though there hasn't been a season i didn't love

love me,
the globetrotting gamine

sigh-

wouldn't you know it?

our last day--our last hours-- in bermuda,

and we stumble upon this beach.

so now we have to go back

and swim in it.

happy day to you!

~the globetrotting gamine

car/taxi photography:: bermuda by christina rozeas

so i take a lot of pictures...whenever i am in the car on my way to someplace...
i call it car photography.
but seriously...

have you ever seen water that color?
heavenly.

kalamata- it's not only olives

"so, i'm greek, right?"

one of my most favorite lines from 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'.

being a Greek means that if your family had the means, you've had summers in Greece at least once in your life.
I've had about 20 summers in Greece, give or take.

being a Greek means that you have to travel to Greece at least once after you get married...be it to another Greek (which is preferred by most hardcore Greeks, or wanna-be hardcore Greeks) or to a xeno (which means a non-Greek).

have fun trying to bring a Greek who doesn't speak, read or write Greek down to Greece to meet your family- especially if you're married. Fortunately, we didn't have that problem.

Our only problem? Where will we pick up our breakfast before we get to the beach?
LML and I had two requisites for summers in Kalamata- constant access to the beach and some R&R throughout the day.

done and done.

I remember that there were days we would go to the beach twice- in the morning and then during sunset. It was beautiful to watch the sun setting high in the sky while swimming...floating in the arms of your one and only.

The 45 minute walks to get to the beach, and back were also crazy worth it- probably because of our never-ending conversations. We loved walking by cafenia (cafes), watching the tourists (haha), snapping pictures (me- and LML telling me not to because we'd look like tourists)... and the amount of exercise we got between all that walking and all the swimming would lead ultimately to...

gelato.

Now, i don't have any pictures of the gelatos we would get. Why? Because the last summer we were there, my camera decided to kick the bucket about one day into our one month vacation.

Oh, Gelato.

Our nights consisted of: waking after our ciesta- getting all dolled up and hitting a different cafe for coffee or a beer (we'd sampled all the beers in kalamata during our last summer there)...or hitting the hookah cafe on the beach and watching the bellydancers... or going for the most incredible pizza in the world at Pizza Roma.

Ho. Ly. Cow.

Holy Pizza.

food...beach...swimming...r + r...what else is vacation all about?

love me,
the globetrotting gamine

dear vacation time:

(video taken in greece at some point in time!)

hurry!!

i have discovered

this week  have discovered that:

• my to-do list should, pretty much, grow legs. it would be much easier to taunt me while it chases around my house and wherever.
• true friends are just that, and they make me happy.
• everyday should be mother's day, father's day, valentine's day. isn't there something wrong with celebrating important relationships only one day a year? i think so.
• vacations should be funded by the government and required at least once a year.
• people should really start looking at why they're miserable instead of making the happy also miserable. stop trying to get people down if your life sucks, and fix it. it's not the happy people's (or my) problem!
• there should be more hours in the day!
• there should be more time to drink wine, read, stare at flowers, take pictures, and smile.

happy monday <3
love me,
the globetrotting gamine