Photo of Happiness...

I bet you all have some photos on your archives or on your mind that is describing the happiness for you. They are always very special as it is the embodiment of my happiness..Couple days ago I found another one.

Eminim hepinizin arşivlerinde ya da hafızasında, işte bu mutluluğun resmi diyeceğiniz bir kaç tane fotoğraf vardır. Benim için mutluluğu resmedebildikleri , somutlaştırdıkları için onlar çok özel ve güzeldirler. İşte geçen gün böyle bir fotoğraf daha buldum..

Behind this picture came a lovely blog and a new book. Australian Claire Lloyd made the Greek island Lesvos as her second home. She lives, loves and shares her small island on her lovely blog and her new book My Greek Island Home. I found so many similarities of her life and mine in our small paradises..I really enjoyed her blog and hoping to read her book soon...

You can reach Claire from here

Sonrasında bu fotoğrafın arkasından çok güzel bir blog ve harika bir kitap çıktı. Avusturalya'lı Claire Lloyd Yunanistan'ın Midilli adasını ikinci evi yapmış.Midilli'deki  yaşamını, adaya olan sevgisini ise blog'u ve yeni kitabı My Greek Island Home ile herkesle paylaşmış. benim Datça'daki hayatım ve onun Midilli'deki yaşamı arasında öyle çok benzerlikler buldum ki. Blogunu çok sevdim, Umarım kitabını da en kısa sürede okuyabilirim..

Claire'e buradan ulaşabilirsiniz..

Colors of Aegean...

Here are some more colorful photos from our recent Kos trip. Vibrant colors and all sort of blues under the sunshine are all about Aegean and Mediterranean..

 Wish you a much cooler day than mine....

Back from KOS..

Well, our short trip to Kos - Greece was actually a mid summer get away from one hot place to another. Although our original plan was to visit couple more Greek islands from Kos, we postponed this idea to cooler months, maybe end of September or October..

A short ferry trip from Bodrum to Kos is taking about 40 minutes and waiting right under the sun at the Greek customs office is taking another hour. Town of Kos is full of daily tourists coming from Turkey. Ferries are working all day long.

We chosed to stay at the town of Kefalos which is right at the other side of the island. When we left the town of Kos, we started to realize how hard the Greeks hit by the recent economic crises. All the lovely beaches were empty except couple British tourists...Kefalos was like a semi ghost town during the evening. Some of the tavernas did not  even open for the season..It was rather sad..

However we enjoyed lots of good seafood and local wine. Prices were much cheaper compare to Turkey.