I’ve been quiet. Winter had me cocooned up, resisting the very cold, the snow, the futility of it all. Now that almost Spring is here, I feel a bit elated. I can muster to drag my very white skin to see some sunlight, when I can get it. And muster the will to dawn a cute outfit too. Continue Reading…
Flying straight to Warsaw from Budapest in December, at night, clear skies, winter cold, a sort of familiarity was sensed as we were waiting for the public transport to get us to our AirBnb. Coming from the Communist Block ourselves, we did actually expect familiarity. However, we did not expect a rather huge city full of sky scrappers that rise out of that familiarity of Communist blocks. Because Warsaw is a modern, quite exquisite city, that rises out of that Communist reality. A marvelous surprise. A marvelous city.
The sound of my childhood: crows crowing in every park and over every building, come early Winter. The sights of my childhood: playing with the many, many fallen leaves in the park I grew up in. I used to hate November, being a child of Summer. November was that useless month that stood in the way of festive December. Continue Reading…
If you you’re a fan of Baroque Architecture (like me) and also love Italy, Lecce will leave you breathless. So much bigger than Noto, another Baroque Italian jewel (which is much smaller – but worth it also), Lecce is amazing for so many reasons. One of those many reasons is that it is that delightful, day and night! Continue Reading…
The oldest inhabitable settlement in the world, an ancient city wreaked by poverty just a few decades ago, now a UNESCO site full of shops, restaurants and little “casa grotta” museums. Matera is something else. Continue Reading…
So many times here my words of London have never matched how I feel about THIS city: my second love of my life. Yes, a city so busy, vibrant, crowded, expensive. But oh, so wonderful. Every year, come Spring and Autumn, it keeps calling. Its draw speaks so much to my heart. And here I am again, in London, for the millionth time. Continue Reading…
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