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happy saturday
a splendid foretaste of summer
Lately I spent an awesome time with my daughter in Florence. We were strolling around all day long, visiting palazzi, museums and fashion shops, sunbathing on roof terraces, and, as a special challenge, we never ate twice in the same place! I swear to you I hadn’t been served so simple and so delicious meals in a long time… salads, grilled vegetables, carpacci, gelati, BIFTECA A LA FIORENTINA, panini, capuccini….just paradise! So, if you agree, […]
antipasti in the sun
Lazy sunny weekend- like the beginning of an amazing holiday on a wooden three-master in the Mediterranean.. or at least in an ancient monastery in Florence.
English Seed Cake
Had a cool morning with one of my best friends drinking café au lait, eating English Seed Cake and gossiping.
makeover for the spirits cart
From my parents-in-law I got an old Spirits Cart (or Cocktail Trolley ??) which in the 50ies must have been the culmination of stylishness. Brown oakwood with a top side of flowered plastic tiles. Consisting the awful tiles in one single piece integrated in the wood, they couldn’t be removed without destroying the whole cart. So what to do? I decided to risk it all and just rely on the beneficial effects of strong colours […]
Cafe Fernando
Browsing food blogs some days ago I made an amazing discovery: Cafe Fernando by Cenk who describes himself as a “food blogger, novice photographer, seasoned home baker and a shameless chocoholic from Istanbul, Turkey”. Food Blogger: no doubt about; novice Photographer: a big NO to “novice”, his photos are outstanding, real works of art, supermotivating; shameless chocoholic : makes him absolutely and utterly adorable! As I got to know today independently of each other my […]
Qi Gong in the early morning hours
The house is so quiet and peaceful in the morning. It’s still dark outside. Inside a warm light of white candles and the sound of the gently flowing Qi Gong music.