naples – Fennyblack

Love is in the air: San Valentine’s Day, starting 2 days before and ending the day after

Yes, you have to wait until two or three days before San Valentine’s Day to have the right idea for your lover.

It happens every year, each time you start thinking and watching shop windows, but then you think you want something different, something special that reminds you and you love of that particular feeling.

Anyway, here’s my preparation to San Valentine’s Day… Starting from a tour in Florence, passing by those little vintage shops full of things and old tools and books and posters..

Santo Spirito Street - Florence — Santo Spirito Street – Florence

going towards those refined and polish shops as the Rinascente, where you can enjoy its facade that is totally dedicated to the new fragrance of Ferragamo ‘Emozione’:

arriving to a fantastic idea, an homemade one.. that’s it! Here you are the solution:

San Valentine's choko-biscuits — San Valentine’s choko-biscuits

I know they will be very appreciated 🙂 above all if thinking about San Valentine Day’s I was sure to have…
…in Naples.

Imagine having lunch at home, because you man loves to prepare lunches for you..and you also have at your disposal a fish market where fish is very cheap and fresh and it has a wonderful taste:

and you can add some very good raw fish, enjoy this picture where you can see oysters (top!), razor shells, smooth clams and some others mollusks:

Raw fish: oysters, smooth clams, razor shells

Zoommm in the oyster:

Then, it’s time to enjoy the nice sun outside, so let’s have a walk in one of the man street – Via Toledo, also called via Roma – that goes straight to Piazza Plebiscito. At first, you meet a surprisingly great juke-box (with a poor man inside!) designed by Baci Perugina: you just need to choose your song and it starts… (then I discovered all the songs were part of Tiziano Ferro’s archives because of a particular partnership between him and Perugina brand, they created a limited edition for this loving occasion):

Baci Perugina and Tiziano Ferro for limited edition 'Autografi d'Amore' — Baci Perugina and Tiziano Ferro for limited edition ‘Autografi d’Amore’

Let’s finish the tour with something more pretty and less popular, in one of the narrows that lead to ‘Quartieri Spagnoli’ of Naples..a green and red Gallery of Love, full of flowers:

Love Gallery - Quartieri Spagnoli Naples 2015 — Love Gallery – Quartieri Spagnoli Naples 2015

Hope you enjoyed your San Valentine’s Day and mine too! 🙂

‘Dolci’: sweets in Naples, a total delight.

Last weekend I was i Naples, I got fat in just 3 days 🙂

I didn’t want to, but it was impossible to avoid those wonderful windows where you could stare at all those sweets. So utopian to not eat everything there, and here you are the explanation: ‘sfogliatelle’, ‘baba’ in the background and ‘struffoli’, the typical sweets for Xmas time.

And this was the wonderful bakery, or better a pastry shop, that draws the attention of everybody: this is Leopoldo, on of the most popular bakery of Naples. And now it’s becoming even more popular thanks to the addition of the ‘gelateria’ corner. Now you can have the pastry on the right (by Leopoldo) and ice creams on the left (by Casa Infante): a total delight.

And finally, here you are one the wall that drew my attention, a black and white picture of the past:

Delights of the past, the same as in the present.

Christmas is coming

It’s 23rd November, this month has already gone and I haven’t realized it yet. But somebody else noticed it. Just after some weeks spent at work by going to some places because of some events and fairies, or working into the office, it’s time to have my little break.
Why not spending some days out of the city and go to Naples.

Et voilà.. it’s Xmas
Here you are some photos taken by Via Roma, going towards Piazza del Plebiscito:

Nice Xmas lights all around, weird Xmas lights, those kind of Xmas lights you can only see in Naples.

And here you are the best ones:
shopping bags or girls with bags in their shopping time

and then the best of all, the image that its the typical representation on Naples style and flavor and tradition for everybody in the world: the ‘sfogliatella napoletana’

If you have some days to spend somewhere, discover this city and its beautiful and weird traditions!