viola's people watching blog
It was a sunless autumn morning when we travelled through The Black Forest of Germany. The slopes on the right and left for miles and miles were heavily wooded with evergreens…conifers growing close together, tall and straight like sentries reaching for the sky, their conical tops piercing the clouds and […]
We needed to snatch up the lingering rays of summer and make a hasty getaway…but…we didn’t want to be the masters of our ship…no putting on our thinking caps and booking flights, hotels and renting cars and listening to muddly directions from the GPS…turn left turn right and then…silence. We […]
Wring out every drop … not really my guiding principle in life… but on the last day of our trip, we wanted to see whatever Alexandroupoli could offer us, winkle out all her hidden secrets. Mid-morning saw us driving out of the city towards the east. All along on the […]
Our newly acquired thirst for rivers took us right up north to Oreistiada, a town set up in 1923 by Greek refugees from Adrianople during the population exchange between Greece and Turkey. The River Evros runs some 203 km, forming a natural border between the two countries. We hit the […]
We set off on the road to Stavroupolis, which is about some 27 km north west from the city of Xanthi, after a leisurely breakfast at the hotel, one we would indulge in only on holidays… eggs sunny side up, cheese, bacon and toast, nice and buttery and dripping with […]
We have never been great planners, especially when making a quick summer getaway. Our young visitors had left and we had less than two weeks to take off somewhere and soak in new experiences. We felt the urgency to take flight and leave Crete before the autumn gusts rushed in […]
Reinventing yourself seems to be the buzzword these days, more so than ever. Turn your life around, rise up to your full potential, think positive….. begone you negative thoughts…… eat super foods, work out, make dynamic choices, stamp your face on social media etc etc……… I ask myself………have I ever […]
Do you stamp your mug in front of famous sights, posing, with sunglasses on, with other tourists waiting on the margins, raring to go for their turn…….just you on the Bridge Of Sighs….you discovered it…. or at a famous Parisian café where you’re supposed to be watching people….but you with […]