‘What’s your name?’ – asked the guy who had jumped out of a battered up pick up truck and stopped me in the middle of the road. It was a sunny Sunday morning and I was just walking through the cobbled streets of Alderney enjoying my day off. And then boom – this happened. It […]
Read MoreThe new girl
‘I heard you were making out with the eye candy boy last night’ – my friend told me. And that basically sums up the island of Alderney – everybody knew everything, in most cases even before it happened. Don’t get me wrong, it was a very special place to me, and very dear to my […]
Read MoreIn and out of harbor
I didn’t go back to Greece. One time was enough, I decided, and I couldn’t really bear to think of another summer full of shouting. And no matter how much I missed him, I was not the girl for him. A few years later I found out he got married to another girl from my […]
Read MoreIt’s all Greek to me
Remember the skinny guy who picked me up on the morning I arrived to Parga? He was one of the twins. The manager. The other twin was the chef. While their mother Nafsika would sit at the restaurant every night and smile at the customers, the twins would yell at the staff. They yelled at […]
Read MoreYes to Grease, yes to Greece
One day my fiance told me that we should watch ‘Grease‘. I thought he was talking about Greece, and I wasn’t too keen. Greece? The country in Europe? No, thank you, too close to home… But I did watch the movie, and I did come to Greece. It was one summer in Parga. Athens had […]
Read MoreZoo York state of mind
The other day I came across this pearl of wisdom: It got me thinking. What is it that I want and look for? Well, in no particular order: a lifelong partner, a.k.a the last boyfriend an awesome job loads of money, enough to bathe in! a place that feels like home But in reality, do […]
Read MoreCelebrity style
While engaged and living in NYC, I remember one day seeing this picture of Renee Zellweger. I loved it. Renee the bride, she looked so happy. It inspired me. I knew in a couple of months’ time I would be just like her, on my wedding day on the beach. Sadly, her marriage lasted only […]
Read MoreExpiration date
‘Sleep’. That is the answer I gave once when asked what was my favorite thing to do. And I was being serious, too. ‘Sometimes I sleep till one or two in the afternoon. And I love it!’, – I had gone on and on. I wish I could say the same today. Most of the […]
Read MoreThe wedding
I’m hoping you’ll forgive me. I’ll let my pictures do the talking today. Yes, they are blurry, but so is the memory of my wedding day. More than 15 years have passed. I do remember, though, that there was laughter, there was joy, there were tears of happiness. We ate, we danced, we kissed, we […]
Read MoreReady
Kristina was here. The one who started it all. The other Kristina was also here. The one who spent the summer in Petoskey with me and braved the cold winter there, too. Amongst my sister, my mother and myself, we would call them the ‘tall Kristina’ and the ‘short Kristina’. Years later I met Christine, […]
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