Miami, Lisbon, Greece...
It sounds like I'm an international journalist. Well, maybe I am...
About a month ago, I decided to leave Los Angeles for three months. Crazy, I know. This is/was a first for me to leave LA-- the land of all my "hopes & dreams" and say, 'I'll be back...sit tight'
Literally, I felt like I left LA with my career in the balance. Most actress, comics, writers, or what have you don't leave the Hollywood Hustle (for a long period of time) until they feel established-- I guess, I'm bucking the system.
But what is feeling "established" any way?! Life happens when you are living it.
You are established where you are right now.
Here's a little from me--
This is what I did last weekend...
Saturday, Yorgos took me on a day trip to the island of Agistri. It's about an hour and a half from Athens. (Sadly, I just realized that I didn't up load the photos from my iphone to my computer yet--) So the full trip re-cap will have to be later...
Here's a fun trailer of the trip:
Before I got to Greece, I got to have an overnight stay in Lisbon! How cool is that?! These are some of the perks about NOT being an organized person--> I checked my itinerary the day I was leaving and realized that there was mistake, my 12 hour layover in Lisbon was actually an overnight stay! I sent a message to the travel agent who booked my flight and I scrambled to find cheap hostels to stay in-- Thankfully, Susan (@ MiniMax Travel) corrected the situation by getting a free hotel stay and transport to the hotel from the airport and back-- Yay! (Big up, TAP Airlines)
Here are some highlights:
BACK TO GREECE...
I will have a separate post of some of the other things I have been doing in Greece. But I don't think my first blog would be complete without acknowledging the taxi strike that Yorgos has been dealing with for almost 2 months. So here's the deal-- it costs about 80,000 euros (100K) to have a license to drive a cab and the government has changed it to 3,000 euros (5K)-- it's like having your house depreciate to $5,000 dollars.
It AIN'T RIGHT-- PROTEST!!!!
More to come...
It sounds like I'm an international journalist. Well, maybe I am...
About a month ago, I decided to leave Los Angeles for three months. Crazy, I know. This is/was a first for me to leave LA-- the land of all my "hopes & dreams" and say, 'I'll be back...sit tight'
Literally, I felt like I left LA with my career in the balance. Most actress, comics, writers, or what have you don't leave the Hollywood Hustle (for a long period of time) until they feel established-- I guess, I'm bucking the system.
But what is feeling "established" any way?! Life happens when you are living it.
You are established where you are right now.
Here's a little from me--
This is what I did last weekend...
Saturday, Yorgos took me on a day trip to the island of Agistri. It's about an hour and a half from Athens. (Sadly, I just realized that I didn't up load the photos from my iphone to my computer yet--) So the full trip re-cap will have to be later...
Here's a fun trailer of the trip:
Before I got to Greece, I got to have an overnight stay in Lisbon! How cool is that?! These are some of the perks about NOT being an organized person--> I checked my itinerary the day I was leaving and realized that there was mistake, my 12 hour layover in Lisbon was actually an overnight stay! I sent a message to the travel agent who booked my flight and I scrambled to find cheap hostels to stay in-- Thankfully, Susan (@ MiniMax Travel) corrected the situation by getting a free hotel stay and transport to the hotel from the airport and back-- Yay! (Big up, TAP Airlines)
Here are some highlights:
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| The Airport-- Everyone thought I was a native! (apparently there are a lot brown people here) |
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| The view from atop there scenic elevator of the main square (Almalfa, is name of the city) . |
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| This had a sign for Jorge castle! I couldn't resit taking it for my buddy... |
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| Trolley |
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| Starbucks in this beautiful building?!! |
I will have a separate post of some of the other things I have been doing in Greece. But I don't think my first blog would be complete without acknowledging the taxi strike that Yorgos has been dealing with for almost 2 months. So here's the deal-- it costs about 80,000 euros (100K) to have a license to drive a cab and the government has changed it to 3,000 euros (5K)-- it's like having your house depreciate to $5,000 dollars.
It AIN'T RIGHT-- PROTEST!!!!
More to come...
