Showing posts with label Beach and paradise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beach and paradise. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

jazz on pelican beach

Always having such a great time with our dear Canadian friend Reg Bates. You might remember that Reg owns Weather Eye Yachts, the best yacht broker you can find in the Caribbean. He's been a tremendous help in regards of selling our old boat and buying of our new one, so lucky to have found him. Buying and selling a vessel can often be a very personal, emotional affair and not everyone are as lucky as we've been, to find the right middle man. Bonus of course when your broker also proves to be a crazy, funny and warm person and we've had so much fun with this man ever since we met the first time. Thanks again dear for an amazing day in the sun!

My bikini is from Agua de Coco and Beach Fashion Shop. Earrings from We Dream In Colour.

Monday, March 26, 2012

It's all about freedom

When people ask us what is the main purpose, the real drive behind sailing the world and living a life like this, the answer that always comes to mind is, because we want to feel free. However egoistic or selfish that might sound, it's all very simple, we just want that: to feel free, have a peace of mind. We have no huge saving-the-world-mission going on here nor are we out on this journey just because "it's a fun thing to have done", but what is driving us are all those unnecessary things one might have to face in a normal life. We don't want no stress, we want no bigger problems than the ones we manage to create for ourselves, we don't want anyone interfering with our time on earth, no one telling us what to do and what not to. We want to be able to do the things we love, design the life the way we feel like. We want to share beautiful moments only with people we love being around and the ones that we feel happy and comfortable with. We want to see the world with our own eyes, maybe finding a place to settle for a few years or continue to search for that perfect place for years to come if that suits us better for that time being. This journey we're out on is the best way we've found to achieve all of that. This is the only way we have figured out that gives us real peace of mind and we are willing to work hard each of these days in various  locations around the world to maintain this liberating lifestyle that we have chosen as our best bet. Don't get me wrong now, we have a lot of things to do here, a lot of work and projects to take care of which sometimes means 14 hours of non-stop work and a lot of sweat and pain, but we're doing it all because we have chosen it as parts of our life, and obviously because money doesn't grow on palm trees.. 

Life is so incredibly beautiful if we manage it well so we simply just don't want to waste our time if you know what I mean. To be egoistic and to take control of your own life is for us the best way to live as that gives not only happiness to oneself, but also to the people that you choose to be around. I am more humble and thoughtful to my family and people that I care about today than what I have ever been before, while at the same time being more distant to what consume too much of my energy in a negative way, and it all comes down to the same philosophy: Life was made to be lived in peaceful and harmonic manners. When the mind and soul is in peace because you do only the things you enjoy doing, the things that moves you forward and when you surround yourself only with the energy you feel balanced with - that is for me to have found freedom. And that is in the end of the day, the reason why we have chosen to live the way we do. Some weeks we're broke and dirty as a result of expensive and time consuming boat renovations and not much work for us as freelancers', other weeks we're tidied up with pockets full of cash but all the time we're on our way towards our own dreams. Living the life we have chosen for ourselves. Since we began this journey and discovered the truth of it, both the good the bad and the ugly sides, neither of us can imagine living life differently. Everyday thankful that we made this dream reality. 

Saturday, March 24, 2012

saturday slow

Time again for a new playlist. Get on Spotify if you wanna know what we listen to at the moment. It's a semi-melancholic, downtempo melange with a bit of Depeche to stir it all up. Perfect for a Saturday sunset accompanied by a bottle of red. Link to our Saturday slow collection can be found here.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Beach tunes

Now when all friends are gone home and instead of hanging on the beach, we're in front of the laptop and or working on the boat again, we can still remind ourselves of those beautiful sunny days with this sweet beach collection that I've put together. Find the collection on either Spotify or on our Youtube channel.



Monday, March 5, 2012

thankful

Thank you so much friends, family and blog readers for your greetings and emails on my birthday. I'd also like to send millions of thanks to our friend Jeff for organizing one of my birthday parties at his gorgeous house yesterday. And of course thanks to Alex - my soul mate, partner and husband that I like to call him even if we're not yet married, for not only being a man who can sort out and organize everything from emergency repairing my broken heels and preparing the most amazing barbeque dinner for that beautiful day to untangling my hair after it got stuck into the fan of the blow-dryer (seriously), but also for being such a patient, understanding and loving man even in the most stressful of moments (ok, most of the times at least lol). Not only does life get better with years of wisdom and experience, so does also the strongest and most profound friendships and relationships. Thank you all for making my/our past week an unforgettable one.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Pirate wear

I love this beautiful cotton skirt and the silver snake around my arm. Both are from my new favorite island style brand, Jen's pirate booty. Chic, simple, easy to wear and pretty damn stylish too. If we would have been on Ibiza this summer I know for sure what I'd be living in..

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

protect yourself

just another day by the beach... feels like I'm on a girls vacation here. loving it. In the end of next week it's time for Alex and me to have another type of vacation far from the boat. One full week on another side of the world. more about that later on...