SUMMER IN EUROPE - TAKE VI!!

It is SO BEAUTIFUL OUT TODAY!! Sun shining, warm, and utterly FABULOUS, not to mention a veritable shame we are all inside "working". For the first time since last year I had the summer morning feeling, with nary a twinge of chill in the air, and was happy to realise that this will mark my 6th summer of European love. FEEL IT! LOVE IT! KNOW IT!

Frankly, my summer life did not exist until I started coming overseas. OH sure, there were good times, fabulous times even, skipping from place to place and patio to terrace to Tango to GG's to this that and the other. But MY life, as recognised as how I wanted it to be, did not exist until that fateful trip to Barcelona five years ago, when all hopes and expectations about life in Europe were not only affirmed but raised in the "all I could hope for and more" lifestyle umbrella. And here I am, looking to bring the whole equation full circle with a more then temporary return forecasted within what may very well be a short time, opportunity/ambition/luck/fate willing.

(In a very brainiatic digression I found myself doing algebra by hand the other day, what is with THAT?? I did enjoy x, y, et al in calculytic form all those years ago. Integrate! Integrate! Dance to the music! ...NERD ALERT 8-/ )

Where was I? Oh yes, the pure, enjoyment of life - especially summer - in Europe. Those more than lucky EU residents who partake in the Blog may find it difficult to understand, those back in the Homeland perhaps less so (perhaps not...) but summer really should not be spent outside the Mediterranean triad of Spain, Portugal, and the South of France.

*ring ring* Hello? Albert? Yes it's Myriah. Fine thank you, and you? Oh fabulous! Yes I'm just calling to see if we're still on for the weekend? PERFECT! Yes 2 days on the yacht will do just fine. Hmm hmm, Veuve Cliquot and strawberries, yes. Do you have enough ice? Great. OH Robbie's dropping by for the soiree? Do tell him I'm gibbled. No the Ashton is just fine for pick-up from the helipad, I'm packed light, just the two small Louis...SO looking forward to it as well! Bisous to Steph and Caroline, and see you in just a blink! Ta Darling!"

What??

*snicker*

Well, perhaps it's stretch, but Porto and BCN are not, and I WILL pass go and WILL collect 200 starting on Saturday, and yet another fab summer will commence.

Ta darlings.