He had to be held back when another pup walked by - pretty dirty
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Patience is sometimes the key to photography - Mykonos WIndmills
I believe the key to great travel photography is 30% camera, 30% skill, 20% patience, and 10% creativity. Patience is really critical and it can mean waiting for the right time of day to capture a picture, or even just literally waiting until people move out of the shot. The latter is something that I am constantly bumping up against, and I am known to wait over an hour for people just to move out of a shot.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Petros the Mykonos pelican
In 1958, an injured pelican was nursed back to health by a fisherman on Mykonos. The locals named him Petros and he was a town favorite and a symbol of Mykonos. He was sadly hit by a car in 1985 and died.
Three new pelicans took residence on the island, a male and two females. They named the male Petros in honor of the original and he is found around the harbor in old town daily, strutting his stuff, menacing tourists, and stealing fish.
Tropicana Paradise Beach - Mykonos
The Travel Channel voted Tropicana at Paradise Beach the best beach bar in the world. It is set in a perfect bay with clear calm water (above), and every day in the late afternoon the party starts around 5 with Sasa - the King of Mykonos leading the charge.
The wheels come off a bit, and I imagine that it would have been a great and horrible place to supplant a 19 year old Justin Delaney. Should we ever meet via some kind of time travel worm hole, I will be sure not to bring this place up. Kristin and I people-watched for a few hours and then literally drove our ATV off into the sunset. Check out the pictures.
This Guy - King of Mykonos Edition
This guy is some kind of celebrity DJ/MC in Mykonos at Tropicana Paradise Beach - which is considered the best beach bar in the world (maybe a bit of a stretch). Check out that bathing suit! There were some guys from Abu Dhabi at the club and he shouted Abu Dhabi every 3.5 minutes into his mic. Good times.
This Guy - Mykonos All-star Edition
I don't know who this guy is, or where he came from, but for the better part of an hour, Kristin and I fixed our gaze upon him. He had the moves of a nimble sex-crazed ogre.
Fleeing Central Europe for Mykonos
The winter came to Vienna, and we fled. We boarded a plane early on a cold morning with what appeared to be flurries hovering in the sky and flew straight for Greece, where the temp doubled, and we traded clouds for sun. All around, it felt like the right thing to do.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
The horse who loved me - Lipizzaners in Slovenia
We visited an area of Slovenia known for their Lipizzaner horses. The horses are just incredibly beautiful and the breed began in the Karst region of Slovenia in the 1500's. The horses are typically used for dressage, which is pretty boring to watch, but once you get into it, it is nearly impossible to think of anything else. Or so I am told. The horses are rare and expensive.
Anyways, we were passing this small farm, and for whatever reason, this horse saw me, got incredibly excited, and sprinted over to say Hello. It was as if he had waited all of his life for me to arrive at his gate. He looked that excited.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
The goodness of Demel
Demel makes the best sweets in the world. We stopped by and ate a few things, and it did not disappoint. Earlier in the trip I promised an older Austrian man that I would visit Vienna for a year, but I had to also promise that I would never look at a bathroom scale. Now I know why he said that. The desserts here are exquisite.
Le Cru Champagne Shop in Vienna
This is a cool little shop in Vienna that only sells champagne. That's it. They specialize in single grape small-batch "microbrews" from estates in France. We were a little intimidated to enter in our rain suits, but we found warm service and were even offered free tastings, even though we insisted that we were leaving Vienna to soon to drink any champagne.
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