The best calamari by  Alison Day © Alison Day  Alison Day Design   Join the mailing list Instagram  

Tourist Wall  by Alison Day The tourist wall—a place to walk along, sit, or ponder the seascape, pose, photograph or be...

Rose Pink   by Alison Day © Alison Day  Alison Day Design   Join the mailing list Instagram  

Already twenty-four hours on the sunny island of Crete in Greece. After a good sleep, it's time to sip cool frappés whilst guardin...

Scuba Chicken by ©️Alison Day 2014 Scuba Diving on Crete was a hit with my son both last year and this. Each time he had a gr...

Waking up to our last day, of a two week holiday on the sunny island of Crete and perturbingly the idea of going home actually appeals—s...

  Sitting in a lovely little restaurant, in the old town of Rethymnon, under the hanging strands of flowering bougainvillea, its blooms in v...

The wind set in around the island of Crete—whipping white foam edges on the crests of waves, pulling strands of hair from hairbands and blow...

Early morning breakfast in the hotel. . . 'How are you today?' she asks. 'Ok—half asleep,' I answer, gul...

Today, a light lunch at the restaurant across the road from the hotel of M ezzes: calamari, Greek salad and taramasalata accompanie...

Have you noticed the increasingly peculiar baggage policies of airlines? It first really came to my attention last Summer, when my ...

  Early morning coffee on the terrace and it's already 26 degrees on Crete in Greece—Happy days!   © Alison Day Designs Instagram Twitte...

“ Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread. Without it, it’s flat .” - Carmen McRae There's nothing more dis...

I had absolutely no qualms about leaving behind what must have been one of the wettest Augusts on record for a two-week holiday on...