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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?
😍😍😍

Traditional food in Southern Italy

It happens when you’re back in those place where you have lived, and you find all those products that are so genuine, nothing but ‘bio’ or ‘organic’ or ‘eco-something’…just so natural

Let’s start from fried figs, they used to be one of the top dessert for our grandparents, and fortunately they’re still prepared and used by families:

Those are the popular red peppers: traditionally, they’re put at the sun because they need to get dry. Then, the dried peppers can be used to have a sort of peppers-powder to dress pasta or prepare fried peppers:

And here you are a typical kind of pear named ‘pera signora‘ (in English it would be Miss Pear 😁) that is becoming even more important for its uniqueness:

complete products line from pera signora: jam, marmelade, fruit juice, in syrup

Pera Signora is part of Slow Food project, see here for more details

And this is a very giant bread made in Calabria – I think a family of 4/5 people can survive for a month also if eating only it:

giant bread - from Calabria — giant bread – from Calabria

crunchy and giant bread made in Calabria

Finally, it is worth to mention pasta – more exactly it’s ‘rigatoni‘ with bacon and eggs, or white-Amatriciana, and a little dessert made of choco-profiterols:

If these pictures male you drool and you got hungry, well… enjoy your meal 😁

Japanese-style vs. ’50s-style wedding

Some weeks ago, I wend through these two completely different wedding parties: styles, menu, people, locations, deco and so on… The only thing in common? The amount of things to eat!!

The beginning: an unexpected Japanese-style wedding 😍

location Visconti, Marconia - Basilicata coast — location Visconti, Marconia – Basilicata coast

and some other Japanese deco and sushi:

wedding gift - Japanese cranes — wedding gift – Japanese cranes symbols of happiness

And this is the ’50s:

love bicycle - wedding day at Garden, Matera — love bicycle – wedding day at Garden, Matera

super big hall – Garden Palace in Matera

magic gardens of 'Garden' in Matera — magic gardens of ‘Garden’ in Matera

gardens of Garden Palace - Matera — gardens of Garden Palace – Matera

That’s it! And everything ended with lots more weight 🙂

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!!

Great Advertising to understand, guess what they mean?

Yesterday I found this nice and challenging article about several advertisements I want ti propose to you. It’s great when you catch up the meaning above all when it’s a little bit complex and not taken for granted.

Let’s start whit this!

A very sticky, or better, very absorben product 😀

How to make people running towards the exit, If not using Axe!
so disgusting…

So real!!

I didn’t think that a brand could joke like this with its competitor:

‘Stuck in The wrong job’:

How to deal with ‘hot and spicy’ – by Pringles:
‘Stop hiding problems’ it’s unuseful!

Here you are the power of Nikon S60: how to localize until 12 faces!!
Dreaming of… 😉

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!

Toys for fashion – Hasbro & Luisa Via Roma 2015

It is called #MakeKidsHappy the new campaign of those two pillars. This year LVR topic for Pitti event was My Little Pony – exactly for Firenze4ever LVR initiative – and several mini ponies has been luxury-restyled in order to be sold and collect funds for SaveTheChildren. Stylists who wore these fantastic characters of the childhood were selectioned among several stars: from Versace to Fendi, Delpozo, Faith Connection, Arora, Cavalli…and obviously the LVR work of art!

Here you are some shots:

I’m guessing how much could they cost?!

So colorful and happy, it’s worth to think about how enjoyable was our childhood life 🙂 (well, exactly as right now!)