One Sparkly Life

A recap of my week in pictures. From dreams, views and anything that has caught my eye this week. A visual feast. Dreaming - Santorini, Greece Off I go! Everybody needs a little love. Storm clouds rolling over the city. Dreaming - A chateau of my own Loving - the energy, the dreaminess, the background, wish I was her Loving - effortless chic (Asos Dress) Dreaming - wishing I was relaxing in crystal cear water with the sun on my face! Dreaming - Santorini, Greece (Is there anything not love about this place?) Dreaming - Sunset over the beach from the infinity pool Can you spot a theme? I am dreaming of a much needed holiday. Planning for a a week long break on a sunny beach with nothing more than a cocktail and a good book. I am over winter and need a chance to refresh to regain some energy! Stay tuned to find out where I end up sometime in the next month.

One of my favourite things to do is dream about other places - cities, cultures, countries. Foreign places have always been exciting to me. I love reading and growing up my favourite books were always ones where they experienced new places. Whether it be New York, Paris, or Rome. They sounded so much more exotic then country South Australia. To me the city was the place to be and preferably overseas. So it was so amazing for me to finally take a step and start travelling in 2004. China was my first step for a Challenge Trek on the Great Wall. Amazing. I loved it. The culture, the people but mostly the history. Standing on The Wall and realising just how long it had been around and how many people had walked along it before me, not to mention the people who had died building many years before. To me, that was mind-blowing. The Forbidden City -  Oct 2004 I made me realise just how little h...