Crete: Balos

And tomorrow will be Friday, again.
I think Friday is a wonderful word, don't you agree? :)

So, this week the sun shines, and I thought about my holiday in Crete....
Are you ready to see some wonderful photos of a wonderful sea?
This is Balos, and, in my personal opinion is the second most wonderful sea/beach that I've seen in my whole life!

You arrive at the beach after a long path, you walk under the sun, you climb down the stairs, and you see a paradise....

....Balos, is wonderful! :)

I discover a new sport: ultimate frisbee

Happy Monday to you all!!!
So I had a very busy week, that's why I didn't write so much in this little corner of mine!
On Saturday and Sunday I knew a new sport: ultimate frisbee.
One of my cousin plays this sport, her team had a competition on Saturday and Sunday, and...guess who was the photographer?
My cousin asked me if I could take some photos, and I said "Yes, why no?".
Do you wanna know something?
It's hard, very very hard, taking good photos of people playing ultimate frisbee. The frisbee is little, it flies quickly, and it not easy to take photos of it. You can imagine how difficult is taking good photos.
I took 1122 photos.... :), and I think just 50 are good...

I even met a very kind guy... he had a very good lens (70-300mm), I told him "..wow!you had a great lens!!!" and he lent it too me for the rest of the afternoon...

Here's a few photos of the Ultimate Frisbee Tournament, DiscoLudens 2014:

....frisbees are sooo nice!!!

Crete: a day in Falassarna

Well, if I can suggest you an island where you can spend a week, well this is Crete. (to be honest, one week is not enough...2 weeks are better, because it's a very large island!)
Anyway, Mr and I spent a wonderful week!
So this was our vacation....
We rented a car, and we  Mr drove for the whole week, our apartment was in Kissamos (I don't share the name of the apartament, we didn't like it...). The city's a great place because it is near to a lot of great beaches!
DAY 1
We spent the whole day in Falassarna, we were tired, and so we decided that the best way for starting our vacation was soaking up the sun, reading, and swimming!

....and we swam in this sea!!!! :)

Crete in numbers

3# moussakas I ate in a week

almost 1000# km Mr drove across Crete

+10000# times I said "oh, it's wonderful here!"

9# times I swam in these wonderful waters

+ 700# photos I took (I'm not gonna sharing all these, I promise)

1# book read (And the Mountains Echoed)

1# I wore make up just once

1# earthquake

1# fire (we saw it)

So, I'm going to write some seriuos posts about this wonderful island!
Now, it's September, and routine is coming again...so, happy week!

Dalai Lama's advice

via

.....that's why Mr and I tomorrow will fly to Crete!

I wish you an amazing week!!!

See you in September!

What I eat: eggplant balls

Happy Saturday everyone!
So, yesterday I spent my afternoon in the kitchen, I cooked my first ragù (it was really good, approved by my mum, my sister and my brother-in-law), and then I cooked eggplantballs!
And I tought "Why can't I join the thousand food bloggers?"
And here's my first food post! :)
How to cook eggplantballs!

YOU'LL NEED.... (4 people)

 2 big eggplants
 50 gr of basil
 50 gr of parmesan (or something more, it depends how fix you want to have it)
 50 gr cup of bread crumbs (or something more, it depends how fix you want to have it)

DIRECTIONS:
wash your eggplants, cut them in big pieces, and put them in a pot with water and salt.
cook them until they are soft (yesterday they took 1 hour)
pour your eggplants in a colander so the water can go away from your vegetables (lay your eggplants in the colander for 2 or 3 hours)
put your eggplants in a mixing bowl, add parmesan, bread crumbs, and basil cut in little pieces
mix everything
create little balls
fry them

We ate them with tomatos, with cheese, you can eat them with what you want!
Hope you enjoy them, if you cook them, let me know if you like it!

Splendor in the Grass

I'm listening to Pink Martini, Hang on little tomato, I discovered this song 10 minutes ago, and this is the 3rd time I'm listening to it....
Outside it's pouring, it's cold, and it looks like an October Saturday morning, not an August morning.
So, this is the perfect time for a blog post!
Yesterday, when the weather looked like an August day, my sister and her husband, and Mr and I hiked out in Colli Euganei, in Valsanzibio
I took with me my little camera, but there were something that didn't work with colours...I took anyway some photos (I have to understand what's happened to her!), and here's our hike!

...doesn't he look like Peter Pan?

A week in the middle of August

So, this week started in very good way:

On Sunday I spent the whole morning inside a bookstore.
I would have bought so many books...I feel like I need reading. I have to nose some new books, because they smell so good.
In this last period of time, I'm looking at the cover of the books with more attention. I like the photos, I like the font, I know that this is a marketing strategy, but I think they are doing a great job.
So, I came out of the bookstore with 3 books: the first was a present for a friend, the second was a present for my-future-kitchen and for my photography (it's the book of this wonderful lady.... and the book I bought is this....I cannot wait for baking some of her wonderful cookies!), and the third was a gift for me....the last Jane Austen's book! (I have to read Sanditon, it is the last one I have to read!).
Then we had a party for Mr's birthday.

On Monday I run, and in the evening I met with my University friends: we had a dinner together and I had a great time with them. I always have a great time with them.

On Tuesday I ate a wonderful chocolate ice-cream strolling around with my Mr, talking about our future together, our house, our next travels.....
I am sad for Robin Williams: to me, he was the actor of my childhood, and he will always be this for me, with Hook, Mrs Doubtfire, Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, What Dreams May Come, Patch Adams....

I wanna see a lot of falling stars, tonight

 

Good morning!!

In these days I've been a little busy, because my Mr turned 30, and I bought 30 little presents to him!

Crazy? Yes, I am.

But I love him, and watching at him while he was opening his presents...well, was wonderful!

Yesterday at sunset I was sitting in what I like to call "my porch" (it's just a terrace...) next to my lemon tree, and while a gentle wind was blowing, I thought "How lucky I am! I have soooo many good things."

I thought that I wanna get old, sit in my porch, next to my lemon tree in the sunset, with a gentle wind that blow my grey hair with my Mr by my side, and think "How lucky we've been in our lives!".

It's a promise that I do to myself!

Life lately has been good. Now I'm out off work for two weeks, so I'm going to blog a little bit more!

I have so many things to do, so many people to see...

I think this August is gonna be legen...wait for it...dary!!!

Tonight, I think I'm going to watch the sky, to see some falling stars...I love watching at the sky by night, universe is huge and great!

I promise, no more post about my toughts...for a while! :)