cities and trips – Page 5

Vogue fashion night out #vfno2015 Florence

Yes here we are! Just after some hours spent in the streets of the city center to explore the Vogue Fashion Night of 2015..

Agenda said it would have been full of people, parties, dj sets and shops open till late, but above all, the promotional gadgets were supposed to be everywhere. Not true. Gadgets can be translated into buying #vfno t-shirts for only 20€…25€

Even if the 30% is supposed to be part of charity funds for Meyer’s hospital, I literally think that this price is too much.

Anyway, let’s start with a little bit of pictures:

#vfno2015 #Pinko #pinkoLove

#vfno2015 #sisley

#vfno2015 #scrambler #DucatiScrambler in partnership with Tudor, Fani optical store in Via Tornabuoni

#vfno2015 #EmilioCavalliniBoutique

#vfno2015 #Pomellato Hyppo dancers 😍

#vfno2015 Inside Strozzi Palace with DJs, purple lights, people

And finally, here we are in Repubblica Square, where fashion people, normal people, casual ones, dark ones, stylish and vintage ones, everybody meet.

The Monday after the weekend – in Ibiza!

It’s Monday, the Monday after the last summer vacation weekend, after a weekend spent in Ibiza.

I planned that sort of ‘hey there’s another wend of holiday in September, don’t mind to be at work again, you’ll be in Ibiza in some weeks!’

Ibiza - views from the plane — Ibiza – views from the plane

And here you are.. A mix of parties, discos, but also wonderful beaches and places where you can enjoy spritz, zumos y patata bravas 🙂

Let’s have a virtual tour of the central city Eivissa (Ibiza):

pescado everywhere - Eivissa — pescado everywhere – Eivissa

Casa 13 - cafeteria y piadinas Eivissa — casa 13 cafeteria y piadineria

And now let’s discover the norther coast where all the most popular places are: Cafe del Mar, Cafe Mambo and also the vip area ‘Telamanca’ with fashion and stylish building and villas:

Cavalli Cafe - Ibiza — Cavalli Cafe – Ibiza

Finally, here you are the best sides of the isle: beaches and discos, mornings and nights, relax and euphoria 😍😍💁💁

sa Trinxa beach - Ibiza — sa Trinxa beach – Ibiza

sa Trinxa - aperitive time — sa Trinxa – aperitive time

san Antoni - northern coast Ibiza — san Antoni – northern coast Ibiza

And now discos (while singing #peopleFromIbiza please!)

Pacha - Solomun night on Sundays — Pacha – Solomun night on Sundays

Flower Power Party - Pacha — Flower Power Party – Pacha

people in the street - Childrens of the 80s party promotion — people in the street – Childrens of the 80s party promotion

IbizA Rock - Playa d'en Bossa — IbizA Rock – Playa d’en Bossa

Ushuaia Tower - Playa d'en Bossa — Ushuaia Tower – Playa d’en Bossa

Ushuaia symbols : hummingbird — the hummingbird, symbol of Ushuaia

That’s it!

For any info and questions just write me and I’ll be happy to give you some tips!

🌾😎😍💁🌊☀️☀️🏄⚓️💽👙

☑️ got it!

Sunflower Closing party – Florence, August 30th 2015

Let’s start directly by some pictures

I thought it was like a Carnival party, but it’s more about music and DJs. It’s one of the few parties based in Florence, where you really can enjoy happy people, great DJs and whole day far from the regular city parties.

Let’s finish with the line up!

And the location, of course!

phillip and Cole, two popular DJs from Florence

Let me say it has been an heavy day, but I wish to be still there… Dancing and listening to some great electro music #summerIsAlwaysOn

Lion’s Fountain: an Irish pub in the centre of Florence

I was hanging around, just off the office, so why don’t have a great beer-time in one of the best Irish pub of the city?

Here we go: Lion’s Fountain is its name and it’s located exactly in the centre, in San Pier Maggiore square.

Here you are its famous ‘fountain’:

inside Lion's fountain — inside Lion’s fountain

As you can see from these pictures, it’s one of the most international place because thanks to its position, its special beers and above all to the fact that it’s possible to watch Football matches, it has become very popular among the foreign students who live in the city.

All the football supporters always go there.. before, during or after the matches, and this is its great fortune.

Moreover, you can also choose to have a delicious brunch:

Their motto? #beLions !
If you have the chance, enjoy Lions of Florence!

What’s cooking? How to prepare ‘Italian pasta with seafood’

Good morning! It’s my last day off after my vacation, and I’m in Naples, hence nothing’s better than celebrate with a good lunch with freshly made pasta with seafood (it is very common in this city to eat seafood on Sundays).

I’m going to describe you each step for cooking a great pasta with seafood, or more exactly ‘vermicelli by De Cecco‘ with venus clams, swordrazors and hardclams.

Enjoy this recipe!

Step 1 – everything you need is: little tomatoes (The perfect ones are ‘datterini‘) and a few persil, garlic and little chili peppers, vermicelli pasta and seafood:

datterini tomatoes and persil – directly from the market

seafood: venus clams, hard clams, swordrazors

Step 2: while preparing the above-listed ingredients in a pan, you can put some water to boil in a pot.

Put the seafood, with a little salt, garlic, persil and tomatoes in a pan and let them cook for some minutes until their shells open: this means they’re are ready to be eaten.

Step 3: mix the seafood in order to have a colorful and flavored result. In the meantime, as soon as you can see the boiling water, you can add some salt in the pot and then add Vermicelli:

cooking pasta for less minutes than it's shown — cooking pasta for less minutes than it’s shown

…you need to know a little secret: everytime you cook pasta, you have always to let it cook in its water for less minutes than it’s written in their packaging, and then cook it for the remaining munutes in the dressing you chose.

In this case, thanks to this step, you could cook pasta for some more minutes together in the pan with seafood.
The results?
😍😍😍

Weekend to Ischia Island

I thought I already posted some of The pictures I’m going to show here in my old article dedicated to Ischia. But I was wrong 🙂

And I think I will convince you to spend a fabulous weekend in this isle, enjoying its wonderful beaches and cliffs and glimpses!

Anyway enjoy them:

Do you think to go and have a ‘direct’ feeling? 😀 If so, just take the right ferry!!

Chanel: not clothing, not bags, this time it’s about clocks

I found it very interesting. It’s an article published on Vogue, 2014 edition (Italian version) and it was great to find this different point of view in Chanel’s history.

And I will use the original pictures taking from the issue to tell this story.

Firstly, it comes a picture of Première Double Tour versions, made by gold and steel:

Here you are Place Vendôme: the square that inspired the design of the clocks.

A 2013 steel version:

First and original version: ‘Première Tourbillon Volant’ of 1987 designed by Jacques Helleu, art director of Chanel Maison: firstly it represents the design of its perfume Chanel Number 5, then it’s possible to see its pattern inspired by the Vendôme Square:

‘Première’ means the ‘first clock’ and it was in black and white colors, made of different materials – as Modemoiselle Chanel always loved to do.

This is a joaiellerie version of 2009:

Those are two different versions: golden Première Céramique with ceramics, 2009, and Première Perles Haute Joaillerie with Akoya pearls, 2007:

Here you are a 2013 version based on steel:

The following one is the 2013 ‘modern’ version of Tourbillon Volant with diamonds and a mechanism that represents the favourite flower of Chanel: camellia.

‘Première Tourbillon Volant’ – The symbol of one of the first sign of female revolution, the first clock to be made just for women, in the Eighties. And Place Vendôme which is always present in the several editions and models: it’s the birthplace of Chanel world, where the joaillerie/horlogerie boutique, the Offices and flagship store are located.

Hope to visit this square asap!

Find the Egypt in Italy

So weird, just back for a wend in Turin, to discover this city I’ve never been before.

Heard people saying ‘there’s the new opening, Museo Egizio, we need to book tickets!’

That’s why I decided to go straightly there, with no tickets. Just have a try.

That’s why after 5 minutes I had to change my plan and go visiting another top piace of the city: Mole Antonelliana, but I’ll write a dedicated post to it. It’s worth enough!

Be back on Egyptian focus and have a look at how contemporary they are:

the eyes were painted to let the dead see what were the ornaments and things left to him by his family

Superbike 2015 Imola – Top Exclusive views

Here we are,

Imola Round ended with a wonderful experience for both Aruba.it Racing – Ducati Superbike Team (the new Ducati official team of the year) and people and fan going up and down the Dekra Tower of the circuit and all around the hospitality..a triumph of shots and flashes and pictures and families,

everybody together for the same reasons, no violence, no bad scenes and sketches, nobody arguing,

but just a sane passion for motors and sports and Superbike.

Enjoy my reportage with exclusive photos taken from the top of the tower, in the Ducati hospitality, paddock and all around 🙂

#ImolaWorldSBK 2015 - Dekra tower — #ImolaWorldSBK 2015 – Dekra tower

White masks in Four Seasons, the five stars hotel of Florence

It was a sunny afternoon when a friend of mine just asked me to go outside and try to visit the very exclusive gardens of Four Seasons Hotel, in Florence. Why not?

We could have a walk in the garden and then enjoy a fruit juice there (considering that it’s Sunday, and it’s the day after Saturday, the end of the weekend, it’s better not to drink again and be ready for Monday)..

So.. we were saying fruit juice, or detox cocktail, isn’t it?

Anyway, we just went around and suddenly we noticed different white sculptures in those gardens..I couldn’t ever imagine there could be so modern sculptures in that location! I felt as being in the Sculpture gardens of Washington DC! Those are the gardens and their wonderful tress and flowers:

Apparently, all the sculptures represented a sort of contrast between the traditional, romantic and ancient age on one hand and the modern, mixed and distorted reality on the other hand, look at those pictures:

Ugo Riva sculptures - Four Seasons gardens — Ugo Riva sculptures – Four Seasons gardens

And here you are some details: see the stuff sticking the masks! They are cartoons statues, pieces of glasses, mobile phones, Micky Mouse, Winnie the Pooh and all those characters that are part of the youngest life:

Ugo Riva sculptures - some cartoons details — Ugo Riva sculptures – some cartoons details

If you’re interested in discovering more about Ugo RIva (as me), here you can find some more info about his life and works of art.