January 28, 2009

Eat Pray Love

in: Cook Islands, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Rarotonga, travel books

I started my vacation in the Cook Islands where I planned to do nothing but rest and read. I had a perfect book with me - Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. It’s an amazing travel book. It’s about a woman who takes a year off and travels to Italy, India and Bali to search for, as she says, "everything." She enjoys perfect food in Italy, learns how to meditate in India and finds love in Bali.

Eat Pray Love is a fun memoir where every woman can find a piece of herself.

Rarotonga, the main island of the Cook Islands is gorgeous, not developed, with warm water and sun. People are lovely, very much into fishing, windsurfing, hiking, etc oh and they put beets in the hamburgers. It takes about an hour to drive around Rarotonga.

My Cook Island trip was all about reading, meeting new people and…