Blogs: July

Monday, July 27, 2009

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Greece photos uploaded!

Got most of the photos uploaded (finally). The first set is from the ancient city of Delphi. About a 3 hour bus trip outside of downtown Athens, a lovely and well preserved collection of ruins on a steep mountain side with a fabulous museum to add to the educational aspect. One of my favorite parts of my trip.

View the photos from Delphi

The Archiological Museum in downtown Athens

View the photos from the Museum

There are also sets of photos from the island of Naxos, Mykonos, Santorini and some fun photos in downtown Athens at night with friends.

Mr. B

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Greece excursion: Live at the Acropolis

View photos from downtown Athens, the Acropolis, Parthenon and Athena's Temple ;-)

Bryce Hudson... Live at the Acropolis! from Bryce Hudson on Vimeo.

Friday, July 03, 2009

Greece excursion/Selling the studio

SOLD!

Well, if you've been keeping up with the blogs you'll have noticed that there's a great deal of not keeping up with the blog on my behalf. This Summer has started off with many delightful yet nerve racking events. Some have taken me totally by surprise like the fact that my studio has sold in less than a month and a week of being listed. Normally, this would have been fantastic, except I wasn't ready for it at all.

At the advice of my realtor I listed my studio building just in late May because it's a commercial space and a very unique building that would take a very special buyer. So the realtor tells me to put it on the market a good year or two before I'd ever decided to leave it. My plan is to eventually find my way out of Louisville after a good year or two anyway, or at least move into a new house and start a new studio. So a listi' I went. Next thing you know, it sold.

Yes, it does indeed go without saying that this is the equivilent to selling a part of my heart. I turned this thing from something almost condemned to my beautiful studio/showplace. But moving on is something Bryce's are good at. I've got a bunch of money and ideas on what to do next so I'm happy.

All of this wouldn't have been too bad except that it sold right as I was leaving for Greece, literally, the day of. This means that when I return to the States in a matter of days I will have roughly 20-30 days to find a place, close on the building's sale and move me and the puppies and kitties into our new non-existant home. Oh yeah... I have to work a job all of this time ;-(

Greece

So I'm currently on a whirlwind tour of Greece with David Roth and Julie Mac. I have spotty, unsecured and very unreliable internet connections, especially while hopping from island to island right now. It sucks for someone who has a real estate deal going down in another country, has a freelance web design firm, a studio and a family of pets being watched with the building back home. I'm actually on a high speed jetboat cruising across the Agean Sea right now from Santorini back to Athens where we will meet up with Doris (much more drinkng and celebrating will insue).

Places to go, people to meet, things to do.

Started out in fab accommodations courtesy of Doris back in Athens with a couple of days there I started easily getting the lay of the land and exploring the metro to get from one place to another. It was quite nice and adventrous to get to go thoughout the big city and actually know my way around even though everything was in Greek. Shortly after I arrived, David and Julie arrived, we set out doing what we've been doing the bulk of the time. Exploring and drinking and generally getting the chance to do as much as humany possible;-) We did it the Acropolis and the Parthenon, I'll post links to the photos when I can get on the internet again!

Island hopping has been exceptional, riding through the Agean Sea on high speed boats going from port to port, finding our way to our hotel and then setting out on a beach excursion. 2 days and nights in Mykonos, 1 night in both Naxos and Santorini. Mykonos was by far my favorite. We got to rent a car and I was the driver from beach to beach, dining establishment to dining establishment. I'm as dark as a coffee bean by the way! I really really enjoyed the night life there was well which involved for the most part a lot of eating drinking and shopping but on on night I found this great little dance club, the likes of which I tend to run into in every country I ever visit. Next thing you know I'm with "my people" some beautiful Austrailians! It seems that in every country I visit throughout all of time and space I end up meeting people from New Zealand and Australia. This was the case that particular evening and immeadeatly we started dancing and only found ourselves off the dancefloor the 3 or 4 times that someone bought us a drink. It was fantastic. By the end of the night I was soaking wet with sweat but had felt better than I had in days (I believe its because I sweat out all of my "impurities").

So, due to the nature of my horrible internet connection fiascos I'll just post photos when I get connected again and try my best to label them accordingly. Was hoping for an island-by-island and location-by-location rundown of the trip as I usually do but this time it's been impossible. I miss everyone and will see everyone in a few days. Anyone want to help me move???

Mr. B