Comments on: My splendid bathtub https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2014/10/26/my-splendid-bathtub/ Land and Sea Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:16:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Carla https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2014/10/26/my-splendid-bathtub/#comment-5189 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:16:57 +0000 http://www.projectbluesphere.com/?p=2608#comment-5189 Hey Susan! Yes, he is first generation American on his mother side. She was born in the Ukraine and emigrated to the States with her family escaping the war.

My dad was first generation Argentine as well. His family was all Croatian on his father’s side. I have the two passports.

Can’t wait to get to Europe so that we can meet you and your family and share our stories.

]]> By: susan. https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2014/10/26/my-splendid-bathtub/#comment-5188 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:09:15 +0000 http://www.projectbluesphere.com/?p=2608#comment-5188 What a beautiful story, you are a very good writer, I felt I was in the sea with you, Loving the posts,keep happy and keep enjoying your life, and give my love to your wonderful husband, is he really part Ukrainian,

]]> By: Carla https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2014/10/26/my-splendid-bathtub/#comment-5187 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:03:22 +0000 http://www.projectbluesphere.com/?p=2608#comment-5187 Hey Peter! Lovely to hear from you and from Greece as well! My mom just came back from a holiday in Greece and Turkey, she loved it of course!

I know what you mean about not being able to swim. I lived in Patagonia for a few years and the lakes and rivers are crystal clear and beautiful, in the summer it gets really really hot sometimes but still the water is always freezing cold you can barely put your feet in and after a few minutes they are purple! Hahaaa it’s so annoying. To tell you the truth, I don’t know whether we’ll end up going to colder places with Eleanor right away, I assume Alex will have had enough of it when he comes back and will want a break from it. But I can tell you I’m excited to be going to visit him up there in the next couple of weeks and I love the fact next time we go to Argentina together it will be in winter! (Next July Alex will turn 50 and I’ll turn 40, plus my mom’s husband will turn 70 all in the same week).
I don’t want to be cold all the time of course but I do miss having seasons, a little contrast. I love having fruit when it’s warm and hot chocolate when it’s cold, the caress of a soft hat, scarf and furry boots in the snow and the smell of my sunscreen and my board wax when I’m playing with my surfboard in the water. Having just heat all year round is okay but some magical things are missing. That’s the beauty of travel.

Say hi to amazing Greece for me and enjoy the richness of its contrasts. Spring will be back before you know it!

]]> By: Peter d https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2014/10/26/my-splendid-bathtub/#comment-5184 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:16:58 +0000 http://www.projectbluesphere.com/?p=2608#comment-5184 Lovely post Carla. Hey, how are you doing down there alone?? Definitely better off that Alex in the great white north. Brrrrr! That’s how I can relate to your post. When afloat, I just have to be able to dive in. It drives me nuts when I can’t. Winter is arriving in Greece and… it just isn’t swimming weather anymore (I have a low tolerance to the cold. Lately I would yelp on contact). So I hauled out for the winter and am missing the sea already! Why you guys want to visit colder climates is a mystery to me. I wonder what Alex’s opinion will be when he heads back south?!?
Congrats on the new boat. I’m sure you must be going nuts not being there!
Loving your posts,
Peter
ps… time for me to hit a hot shower! Cheers

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