EAT , PRAY , LOVE

Some weeks ago, I wrote on my right column (the one that people don't really read...) that I recommended this book but since I now finished it, I decided to make a dedicated post to that experience.

Not that it is any literary supremacy but for the simplicity, funny and heartbreaking way the author writes, which puts you as the main character.

It is so easy to put yourself on her shoes and no matter what, you are driven to stop for some minutes and analyse your own life.

She is brave, intelligent, enthusiast and strongly in search of her own identity and soul.

No matter how much you have achieved, there are moments when you just want to fill yourself with the power and the courage to put your life in stand-by and for one year , one single year , do anything that you have been postponing for years , anything that you just want to do for no reason, a time for you away from anything that might distract you from finding who you really are. 

I could not stop myself from thinking, how many of us would like to make this, just for one moment in a whole life to be able to stop with no judgements.

I guess that those who red it cannot be indiferent to the situations and moments she  faced on her journey to meet her own God.

Her trip is fullfilled with mistic dreams, visions and dialogues between her and her mind.

This best seller is the real story of Elizabeth Gilbert , which after a nasty divorce, decide to take one year to do things she always dreamed but never had the chance to achieve.

She decide to make a journey through the pleasures of the food in Italy without any feeling of self conscience about the weight she would later put on (and regret...), she then gave herself to the life in a ashram in India in search of the peace of mind so much dreamed about and finally the encounter of love in Indonesia.

This is a book writen by a woman for women and it is much more than a simple story , it is a notice to all of us - Search for your dreams.

One thing I took from this book:

You rather live your own destiny in a unperfect way than someone else life in a perfect way.

A TEA IN THE ISLAND

Gorreana is the name of the only tea made in Europe, in Portugal and in the Azores Island. It seams that we have kept a secret and a tresory undiscovered as in fact, even in Portugal so many people never heard about this fabulous tea, and this centenary unique ritual.

It looks like green veins covering the mountains on the beautiful emerald cost line of San Miguel, drawing lines of bucolic landscape.

This plant called camelia sinensis was brought to the Azores first from Brasil but it was not until later in 1873 that the first lot of dried tea was made by the hands of chinese that not only brought the rights seads but also the knowledge.

This is the camelia sinensis plant.

The tea is made by the traditional process denominated Hysson, a technique that uses steam and produces three different types of black tea and one of green tea.

The black is Orange Pekoe mader with the first leaf , the Pekoe made with second leaf and Broken leaf made with the third leaf.

The weather in the Azores island is perfect for the plantation of tea as it rains all year.

Here the different teas of Gorreana.