worlds collide

earrings - vintage, shop in Copenhagen / jacket - Zara / silk top - Mango / wood & brass bangle - vintage, thrifted / wide leg jeans - Banana Republic / shoes - Toms

These photos are from Chris's birthday on Sunday. We had big plans to get up early, hit the flea market in Psyri, visit the Acropolis, then explore some more neighborhoods and find someplace amazing for dinner. Unfortunately, my body had other plans - I woke up horribly nauseous at five in the morning. Blech. After a rather, ahem, eventful hour, we went back to bed and decided to sleep a bit later and see if things improved. I woke up feeling, if not fully recovered, at least much better, and we were still able to salvage at least our Acropolis plans. I pulled out my old graduate school post-all-nighter trick of dressing better than I felt, and my silk top and wide leg pants offered the added bonus of feeling rather like classy pajamas. We didn't quite get to have the birthday celebration I'd hoped for, but it certainly beat being stuck in bed.

On an entirely unrelated subject, I've recently been in touch with a few friends from college via Twitter. This isn't all that noteworthy in and of itself (although they rock, and it's fun to hear from them more often), but it is the first I've really told anyone I know 'in real life'* about my blog. I haven't brought it up directly - it seems such a strange thing to explain to someone who isn't already a style blogger or blog-reader, particularly unsolicited - but I imagine at least a few old friends have clicked my links and seen this (kind of) strange thing I'm doing now. After a few months of regular blogging, it's funny the things that will make you just a wee bit self-conscious again.

*Chris and S. being the notable exceptions who prove the rule. 
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skimpy

lucite & brass necklace - vintage, thrifted / pink striped sweater - H&M / watch - La Mer / belt - vintage, thrifted / shorts - H&M / tights - Target / socks - H&M / boots - Steve Madden

On Saturday we set out to explore some older Athenian neighborhoods a little bit more; unfortunately, we set off in the wrong direction from the metro and suddenly found ourselves in the middle of a not-so-savory area. I was feeling fine when I saw the homeless guys sleeping in doorways, still pretty ok when I saw the guy shooting up in the back of an abandoned lot, but decidedly not ok when we walked through a crowd at a bus stop and discovered they weren't waiting for the bus - they were buying syringes and baggies. Woah. It was a definite keep-your-head-down-and-keep-walking moment, and one that was perhaps not made more comfortable for me by happening to wear the shortest shorts of all time. Tourists like us so often see only the 'highlights' of a place, and don't get me wrong, I'm all for experiencing both the good and the bad of the places we visit - I just might have preferred not to do so in booty shorts.

For now, I'm off to do yet more packing - when you plan to visit six cities in four countries in under three weeks, this becomes a bit of refrain. I have absolutely loved our short stay in Greece (and I have more photos to share of it this week), but I am still ridiculously excited about our next destination. Tomorrow is moving day!
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home again

I'm back!

Yes, after a month of exile to tumblr, I am happy to say that I am finally back to my regular blogging home. While tumblr was a pretty good way around the censorship issues I experienced in Turkey, and an incredible way to stumble across some great new-to-me bloggers, I am very excited to be back to regular posting here on Blogger.

Otherwise not too much to report here – just spent the day getting brunch, visiting a museum, and shopping for groceries, all while walking around some kind of acropolis thing…

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That’s right, we’re in Athens! You’ll have to excuse my giant cheeser grin in nearly all of these photos, but I am just ecstatically excited to be here. Greece wasn’t on our original itinerary (much to my chagrin), but as we made our post-Istanbul travel arrangements a few weeks ago, I was thrilled to discover how much easier (and less expensive) our plans would be if we stopped here along the way! 

Of course, that whole 'easier' part didn't really seem to be working out so well for us last night - as those who follow me on Twitter already heard, our travel day yesterday featured the zipper on my bag splitting open on the street (twice), a crucial stretch of our metro line in Athens being closed, massive confusion about where we were to pick up keys to our apartment, boyfriend promptly breaking one of said keys in half trying to open the door of our apartment, and then both of us later getting locked out because we'd failed to realize the broken key was actually the one that opened the street door. Yikes. After a few frantic phone calls from the internet cafe down the street (which sells tallboys, is packed at 10:30 on a Thursday night, and whose internal atmosphere is at least 70% B.O.), we managed to make contact with our 'landlord' here, who called the very sweet building super to let us in.

Since then things have been on a determined upswing - after a surprisingly excellent brunch this morning (cappuccino, simple omelet, grilled ciabatta drizzled with olive oil and herbs, and incredible surprise brownies with fresh whipped cream on the house!), we roamed around Psyri and scoped out the streets of the flea market, then worked our way through Plaka and eventually circled the entire Acropolis. We climbed Areopagus hill (where we took the first and last photos), then headed over to the new Acropolis Museum. We were both a bit surprised at how much we liked Tschumi's building (nerd alert!), and how tangibly one feels the absence of the Elgin marbles. While I don't support repatriation unconditionally, the British Museum's position on their 'stewardship' of the marbles smacks to me of a fairly indefensible 'finders-keepers' ('thieves-keepers?') imperialist attitude.

Ok, end rant. Now pictures!

jacket - Zara / gold chain necklace - Forever 21 / gold pailette necklace - Anthropologie / watch - La Mer / cat print blouse - Zara / wide leg jeans - Banana Republic / brogues - Primark

This is actually the second day in a row that I've worn this outfit, but with all the craziness of traveling yesterday we didn't get a chance to snap pictures. Getting to wear outfits you like multiple days in a row is just one of the many blessings of traveling in a country where nobody knows you. Yesterday I wore it with boots, and I didn't have much in mind putting it together beyond keeping my heaviest pants and shoes out of our suitcases; however, I suspect that somewhere along the line this image wormed its way into my brain and gave me a little nudge of inspiration. I also felt like my wide leg jeans and army jacket gave me just a little bit of a grown-up Lindsay Weir vibe, which is never a bad thing.


In case you haven't seen it yet (although you should have, because you should seriously already be reading Off of Broadway religiously), the unfairly chic vintage vixen otherwise known as Amanda featured one of my recent outfits in a post chock-full of gorgeous blogger inspiration. I am so flattered to be in such great company, and promptly nerded out about it pretty hard and tried to explain to my oh-so-patient boyfriend (yet again) just how cool it is to get to know some of my favorite bloggers a little better. He smiled and nodded, because he is a very good man.

And now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to open up a bottle of wine left for us by our host. Happy Friday!
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