Yes. ..

...I am a Virgo and the recipe called for 2" pieces and so it shall be!

Merry, merry to all🎄!

Mafia boss' son Angelo Provenzano criticised for giving guided tours of Sicily | Daily Mail Online

We heard this man speak in Palermo during our OAT trip.

Insight into his current life, it compares to a "cast-out" and very provocative.

Dramatic, to say the least.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3017603/The-Godfather-s-son-giving-guided-tours-Sicily-Controversy-Mafia-boss-bosses-offspring-s-talks-American-tourists-life-father.html


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Sicily Rocks!!!

Great happy and interesting trip!

Music

A short recital on a baroque-y furnished home. An unusual and startling home. In Ragusa.

Service finally!

Where's Waldo?

She's not sure but the architecture is complex...

Sunrise...

...approaching Munich at 6 a.m. Pastel water-color-like streaks on either side of the plane whisper 'welcome'.

These shoes...

...are made for walking...7.2 oz. topo's and I are at SFO headed for Palermo via Munich...

(pic to follow)

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What...

...AM I doing here?

Waiting to leave!!!👀

For my dog loving friends, particularly!

Enjoy!

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Day 1 -- con'd

A very foggy morning at the lake shifted to sunshine and them to a torrential downpour having not the slightest dampening of our spirits as we gawked our way through the second boat shop, Lake Hopatcong.


Chris Craft's foray into polyeurathane (I think) with this fin near the stern.

Green Pond Day 1!

I was in heaven today -- poking around two boat works with my cousins, seeing a variety of beautiful things. If you like boats!!!

See next blog...


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Sublime Santorini

En route/Amtrak- style

Atlantic City, NJ across the channel

Westport Island, ME

View...

...from in-cave outside deck! More will be sent when iPhone up-loads pix to iPad...

In Athens waiting for delayed departure...en route to bi-annual high school friends get-together at Avalon, NJ beach house.

Til soon,

Laura/LJ

Oia/Samtorini

Our cave/room...

Crete to Santorini

Living in a large, gently pastel-ed bubble...

A bubble in time: high in the wooded mountains to the caldera creating Santorini +++ islands.

Santorini is in the distance and I am the sole person who did not go ashore -- enjoying the jabber of 2 Greek captains and the gentle movement of the boat. Watching tiny, tiny fish live their sworm-like life.

(I will post pix in follow-up email.)

First stop, many hair/pin curves up (and down) on very skinny roads surrounded by acres of olive trees. Bird-call symphony each morning, cats scampering from their oven-top bedroom anticipating the scraps of good we would leave behind....introduction to the lovely oil that permeates some -- if not all -- of the foods we eat.
All fresh, seemingly healthy (baklava?).

Onto an ocean-side port habitatated by Turks and Venetians, architecture to match, and color bursting from every uneven step and cafe and flower pot, even the scarves and jewelry to which we treated ourselves. A tourist Mecca, indeed.

The next stop?...immersion in the Minoan period and culture. Labyrinth-like palace dating back to 3,000 BC. Drains for toilets, pipes for draining rain water. Beautiful paintings. Extraordinary relics in the archeological museum "fresh" from the late 1800's excavation.

A high-speed boat - cars, trucks and hundreds of people, economy class at stern, business, mid-ship and first class at the "pointy end".

We are in ...Santorini!!!

More hair/pins, oohs and aahs, I can't believe we are here's, wine bushes, higher and higher and we are out of our bus huffing up and down to our perched units high above the sun-setting site our last home. Spectacular sunset, miraculous morning stage. No adjectives. Goose bumps, boarding a boat sized for our small intimate group.

This chapter of Gulliver Griswold's completion, but not the genetic curiosity.

Oh sweet beautiful historically-imbued islands. The bubble will not burst. It will be added to my large crystal bowl of special moments.









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Departing Crete...

...for Santorini on HUGE high speed ferry!


WHEEEEEE!

Fwd: Decluttering

My friend Pat started this one...oh, ye, of little faith!

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Laura Griswold <laurajgriswold@gmail.com>
Date: April 16, 2016 at 12:24:16 AM PDT
To: Pat Dupler <patdupler@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Decluttering

Love it!

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On Apr 15, 2016, at 7:24 PM, Pat Dupler <patdupler@hotmail.com> wrote:

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Drama in the Skies

Sea Side Beauty

Sea Horses Play in the Sky... …over the waves at South Beach (Miami), and it must be a sunrise as that is the Atlantic (duh).

Beach Walk

First point of protection on beach walking north on Kailua beach...