Get your snowboard on!

One more thing in my bucket list: snowboarding. I wouldn't compare it to any other sport I 've previously done (tennis, running, mountain bike, rowing, hiking, rafting etc). It is a unique sense of its own. It's you and the mountains. You and the speed. You and the snow. You are free!

It's been an awesome experience. A combination of speed, power and beautiful scenery. It takes a lot of effort to balance while streaming down the hill in such a speed but gives the feeling of floating. It takes a lot of energy, fitness and strength. My legs and back hurt, even my forearms are complaining today. But it is so totally worth it and highly recommend it! Just make sure you wear proper clothing, protective glasses and gloves, and be prepared to fall. No pain, no gain ;)

Let it burn

Let me burn into your fire so that I can learn from my mistake. 

Let me give you as much as I have left; take it without even giving anything back. 

Prove what you are, no matter the consequences on me. 

As the song goes, the phoenix from the flame...
I will rise and you'll see me return, being what I am, there is no other choice only to burn out.
But I know you wanted me to be there, every look that you gave told me so. . .
[Troy by Sinead O' Connor]

Photo on a boat to Andros, 2011

The Girl Who Played With Fire

"She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck you.
He had noticed her just as the doors closed and looked at her with searching eyes before she turned and walked away as the train pulled out"

Stieg Larsson

Photo on the train to Athens airport

Bring the champagne!

Here's to the new year, a whole 366 days to make the most of them. 
No more bullshit. Carpe diem!

Photo of fireworks back in Cambridge, 2006