Between borders We never needed time machines- our minds are seasoned time travelers.

A beach and a blue sea are my favorite minutes on Earth for as long as I can remember. That relaxing feeling and not a worry in this World is priceless to me.

And ever since I was a very young girl I kept imagining myself lying on a wild beach with not a person in sight and my feet submerged in the clear blue sea. As I grew up I realized that serenity is an endangered feeling and so in all my travels I was desperately trying to find it.

Then one day while vacationing on the Chalkidiki Peninsula in Greece, near the very ordinary small village of Sarti, and after 30 years of searching, I accidentally found my piece of pure serenity.

Originally I went looking for Portokali Beach some 7km from Sarti, after I saw pictures of the place showing the unreal blue colored water. But after arriving at the overcrowded evergreen forest parking space I decided to head for the opposite direction. So instead of going right to where a wooden sign pointed to Portokali, I decided I was going to go left inside the forest and see where it takes me.

And it took me to a narrow steep and rocky hiking trail with thorny bushes and big roots in the middle the trail. Somewhere half down the trail, I really thought about going back, but then this view unfolded before my eyes. I just stood there like a deer in headlights, my whole body refusing to move an inch. Down there through the bright green evergreen forest there was a small beach with the bluest blue sea I have ever seen.

You know that feeling when it’s so perfect from afar you don’t want to move in closer from fear that your might interrupt your own imagination!? That was it! When I finally got the courage, I headed down to the beach. The minute I put my feet on the warm sandy shore I forgot everything else. All I could think about was how blue was that color and how incredible this place was. And while the breeze from the evergreen forest above moved through my hair, I just sat down and gave in, searching for serenity was over…and I could finally rest.