wine + wander, with a dash of words
If your roommate ever asks if you want to get away for 7 days, answer yes: always yes. That's exactly how I found myself on the gorgeous Dutch-owned island of Curaçao.
When you hear an impending ice storm is about to hit Toronto (why, Mother Nature, why...) and you just have a bunch of free time on your hands, you suddenly find yourself packing a bag and setting off one Friday morning.
I watched Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time (I know... I was late to the party), a week before they announced breakfast actually would be served at Tiffany's on 5th Avenue. And when I saw the video that popped up on my Facebook feed, I knew then and there what I needed to add on my bucket list...
Like the hopeless romantic I am, I fell in love with Gerard Butler and Hilary Swank's characters' love in the movie P.S. I Love You. But watching them meet for the first time, standing on a dirt road, surrounded by green fields and hills, I fell in love with Ireland, too...
I'm a Pisces. This automatically explains my emotional personality and sensitivity to others' feelings, but when your zodiac symbol is two fish and your element is water, it also explains why I love anything beach related. Like a lot.
"If you want to be a good writer, you have to know what the bottom looks like," my godfather told me as he lifted his beer bottle to his lips. Rain was pounding down outside, the humidity disappearing with the strong blast of the A/C. I looked him in the eye and nodded, because after two weeks in the Philippines I knew exactly what he meant...
