Happy Holidays!

 To all who celebrate; Merry Christmas!

We are in Daytona beach for a 10 day house sit while enjoying the surroundings, the Christmas decorations, the beaches and the thrift stores :)

Near where we stay is the Twi-light motel where they have extravagant decorations every year, check my video on Instagram to see it even better.

It was quite magical, and as we live in Türkiye we do miss this time as only New Years is celebrated there and by far there is not so many decorations going on for that.

A guy was making these light balls, with closer inspections we saw they are made with plastic glasses and Christmas lights, I might make one for us for home.

Happy Holidays!

USA Trip: Florida Keys

We are enjoying our vacation in Florida! We flew in Miami on the 11th and went to the Keys for a few days. 

It was so good to be back again, last time was in January / February of 2023 when I was in a blog hiatus so I didn't share it.

We had some amazing sunsets and fun drives around the Keys all the way down to Key West.

This guy was weaving baskets out of palm tree leaves and selling them, I liked his look from afar :)

This house was crazy decorated but in a very fun way.

Not a fan of these fishing boats clearing out the sea but they did look beautiful from afar. And see all the birds?

I also went to Sunset Park and had fun taking some silhouette photos and some great sunset memories.

 We are now in Boca Raton for 4 days, doing a house/ pet sit, we always do a few to keep costs a bit down while traveling :) We still have more than 4 weeks to explore, thrift and have fun.

Newly Listed: Snowflake Sea Urchin Brooch

 

Snowflake Sea Urchin Brooch Shiny Snow Pin by StaroftheEast

Fine Art Landscape Photography Print | Snowy Winter Forest Scene | Nature Wall Art | Scandinavian Landscape Print | Winter Photography by LynannColliganPhoto

Winter Photography, Forest in Snow, Birch and Evergreen Trees, Nature Photography, Wall Decor by GeorgiannaLane

New Orleans; Algiers Point, Mississippi River

We went to Algiers Point which is right across the French Quarter but across the Mississippi River.

Full with yet again beautiful old houses it is pretty much the opposite of the French Quarter in the sense that it is very quiet and suburb-like.

During our almost 2 week stay here we practically went and seen all neighborhoods which was pretty cool to do.

I've never seen a town with such a large amount of amazing houses. Even after so many hurricanes, the city has amazing buildings in an amount that is so much more than, for example, San Francisco.

We loved the Christmas decorations which was a lovely extra.

Because we have a car we often just drove slowly and took it all in without killing our feet. We also went to at least 1 thriftshop in each neighborhood and already are piling out in luggage :)

The streets with huge oaks are always my favorite, I'm sure they bring a huge relief of coolness during the hot Louisiana Summers.

Another fun thing about this city is a large number of squirrels, I've never seen so many squirrels in a forest. They are very acrobatic, jumping from roofs, trees and running on electric cables.

Algiers point also has a ferry that goes right to the French Quarter which takes 5 minutes.

We did not do that but instead took a 2-hour boat trip along the Mississipi river.

We were not sure if it would be a total tourist trap but it was actually fantastic.

We had great weather and lunch served on the boat was pretty good too.

The views were mostly industrial, so not amazing, but still it was lovely and the boat was quiet and doesn't rock at all.

This sugar factory typically produces about 2 billion pounds annually, or about 7 million a day. That generally accounts for about 19 percent of the country's cane sugar. It got huge damage during hurricane Katrina but managed to reopen 98 days later. It is more than a hundred years old, est. 1909.

The Mississipi river is the longest River of America.

I loved the amount of Pelicans.

We are leaving New Orleans tomorrow, today we had a calm Christmas day. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas!