Recipe for happiness



Everybody needs a carrot to go one step beyond

Doesn't matter if you eat it or not. As long as the eyes are focused on the carrot, you may go one step forward. And that's always enough!

This is a blog, about all the small pleasures in life.. and the greatest of all; Food!

Interesting recipes from Greece and all over the world, amazing deco ideas, inspiring art, fabulous trends, cute handmade stuff, dreamy destinations, a clever line, a funny thought...

Anything that makes me go... wow! and makes me smile, can be... my carrot.

After all, happiness is a piece of cake!
A carrot cake!

Take a bite!

Monday, June 27, 2011

ART BOUTIQUE HOTELS! PERANTZADA 1811 ITHAKA! ΠΕΡΑΤΖΑΔΑ 1811... ΣΤΗΝ ΙΘΑΚΗ!

























ITHAKA

As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
C.P. CAVAFYS

Have you ever been to Ithaki Island? It is the return to innocence.... 



This beautiful boutique hotel at Ithaka Island is called Perantzada 1811 Art hotel

Perantzada... 1811 Art Hotel in Ithaca island is a newly opened Art Hotel located at the picturesque port of Vathy on the island of Ithaca, off the western coast of Greece.
In the beginning there was a 19th century neoclassical mansion that even the eye of the most common observer could transform to a unique architectural masterpiece. This mansion has now become the PERANTZADA HOTEL. All great names of contemporary design, like Varner Panton, Tom Dixon, Ingo Mauer and Philip Stark are hosted here. Feel the Ionian breeze, rest on the Belle Epoque armchairs or walk on the 19th century Persian carpets.



Περατζάδα 1811... στην Ιθάκη!

Κάτι θα ήξερε ο Οδυσσέας που γύρισε όλο τον κόσμο και επέστρεψε στην Ιθάκη!   Το Perantzada 1811  πρόκειται για ένα στολίδι στο κουκλίστικο νησί. Το κτίριο του 19ου αιώνα που στέκει στην προνομιακή θέση του, στο γραφικό λιμανάκι στο Βαθύ, σχεδίασε ο Τσίλερ. Διακοσμημένο με επιλεγμένα έργα τέχνης και έθνικ κομμάτια, με όλες τις σύγχρονες ανέσεις και... με πλούσιο πρωινό με σπιτικό ψωμί, ολόφρεσκο ρυζόγαλο και ένα σωρό νοστιμιές!












4 comments:

  1. Ομορφες εικόνες, αλλά έχω να δηλώσω ότι το νησί είναι σε κάθε μεριά του μαγευτικότατο!!!! Ειδικά το λιμανάκι στις Φρίκες ένα όνειρο....
    Με πρίζωσες τώρα πολύ!!!
    Εφη

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  2. Υπέροχο νησί... Ιδανικό για όσους αναζητούν ηρεμία, γαλήνη και ανασυγκρότηση!
    Περιμένω ποστ για τις παραλίες στην Ιθάκη! Το Γιδάκι (χαχαχα όνομα και αυτό) είναι η δημοφιλέστερη ίσως, αλλά εγώ την παράκρουσή μου την έπαθα στον Άγιο Ιωάννη! Πιο καθαρά και κρυστάλλινα νερά δεν έχω ξαναδεί στη ζωή μου! Φιλιά!

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  3. Wow, Foivi! Yow know, one of my dreams is to visit Greece. I have a friend that visited some of beautiful islands and he says it´s absolutely stunning. Brazil has very beautiful places too but your country has something special, something like fairy tales - isn´t it?
    kisses
    Carmen

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  4. Hello Carmen! Yes Greece is an amazing place... but it is hard for Greeks to visit our islands... With all this...''crisis'' it is very difficult for most of Greeks to go on vacations... I hope your dream become true and visit Greece one day, and also, to have a chance to meet you!!! One of my dreams is to visit Brazil... What a country... Heaven on Earth!

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