Long Weekend

I leave today for the long weekend.  My hockey player son will be playing in the President's Day Tournament.

photo by Lori Meistrall

photo by Lori Meistrall

photo by Lori Meistrall

Can you guess where we'll be?

I can honestly say that I've never been to PITTSBURGH!  I hope we can get out of the hockey rink for some museum-going and perhaps some window shopping.

Have a great weekend!

photos via: Places 2 Explore and FrontDoor

It's That Time of Year....

...when I feel like packing my bags and going to wherever this chic is:

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Right!

Right then. 

Today's post is in direct response to seeing this new British online magazine, combined with thoughts about the bloggers who are attending Blog Tour 2011 in LONDON!  (God, I love that city.  And chilly, rainy, autumn mornings bring me back to when I was there as a student -- Semester Abroad circa way-too-long-ago.)

Anyway, the lucky ones who will be attending (you know who you are) will no doubt have an amazing time!

 All pictures are from said fantastic British online magazine:  

HeartHome

A great read if you're a freak about England like I am.

all photos:  HeartHome

I Had to Google Girona

Now I want to go there...

because houses like this exist:

Enrique Menossi

Enrique Menossi

Enrique Menossi

and the town looks like this:

Who's with me?

How's your Spanish?

photos by Enrique Menossi originally seen on Solid Frog

A Blue Like No Other

 

Is it really, truly this beautiful? Do your eyes play tricks on you?  Does the camera embellish?  Or conversely, is it even more spectacular -- "the photos don't do it justice..."

These questions, I am sure, can only be answered by going to Morocco.  I hope that one day I can see for myself--  the range of colors, the hue, the intensity; walking in and out of the shadows; standing in the shade or sitting in the sun.

photos:  travellers point

Slice of Old World Heaven

In another life, I think I was a princess of a small European country from the 17th century.  I get a profound sense of longing to be in surroundings such as this. 

Maybe Pieter Porters was my brother in that life.

Pieter has created House of Porters....a guesthouse/selling house in Antwerp, Belgium.

The guesthouse encompasses three luxurious suites, named for the style therein: English, French and New York.

Fancy the items in your suite?  Any and all of it is for sale; hence the selling house.

Oh, Pieter, you have stolen this girl's heart.

The English Suite:

The French Suite:

New York Suite:

I am drawn to the English Suite.  Which one would you book?!

photos:  www.guesthouseporters.com

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