Fashion Show in Milan

 

Hello friends, the last weekend in September I went to Milan with some friends. The main reason was that one of my friends is a photographer and she was going to take photos of the fashion show of Italian designer Francesca Liberatore.

I was super excited to see a fashion show as it is next to impossible to see one, it was held in the Space cinema, which is basically next to the famous Duomo. It was a really great place to hold a fashion show. 

The music, models and clothes were all really fabulous and I really enjoyed myself. It lasts about 15mins and rather hard to take any decent photos, but I tried.

Afterwards some of the models were hanging around outside the cinema and some of the photographers were taking their photos and talking to them.

I hope you are all well and had a lovely weekend. It's crazy to think it is nearly November. Next weekend the clocks go back a hour, something I don't always remember.

Take care, Emma

Casa Vicens, Barcelona

Hello everyone, hope you are all somehow coping with these circumstances we are in at the moment. Now that I am at home for a while, I decided to get back in the blogging world, we will see how long it lasts.

Back in early December I went to Barcelona and one of the places I visited was Casa Vicens, this place is just beautiful. Built by Antoni Gaudi, between 1883 and 1885 as a summer home for the Vicens family. It is his first masterpiece, it is simple astounding. The colourful tiles, stained glass windows, doors, and walls are beautiful. It also has  a small cafe too. I would recommend a visit to Casa Vicens if you ever go to Barcelona.

As I mentioned above, I am on two weeks holiday. Alessio and I were supposed to be flying to Miami and then going on a cruise. But it looks like we should get it all refunded at some point in time.

To pass the time it looks like I will be reading, watching TV, going for walks by the lake and not much else.

Wishing you all a safe and happy Easter

Pavillion Le Corbusier, Zurich

In July Alessio and I went to visit the Pavillon Le Corbusier, it is such an impressive building and every time I was in this area I wanted to go inside. In fact it was closed for quite a few years and now it has reopened.

The building is the last one designed by the Swiss-French architect and his only building made by
glass and steel. The architects Silvio Schmed and Arthur Rüegg, restored the museum back to the original state.

Inside are paintings, drawing, sculptures, posters and furniture, we also wondered up to the roof top  for the view. I was finally happy to have seen the inside of this place, Alessio did not share my enthusiasm at all.

This weekend there is nothing planned, I am just getting stuff ready for our holiday next week. I am looking forward to get away for a bit.

Happy Weekend

Stromness and Kirkwall, Orkney Islands

Stromness

St. Magnus

Earl Palace

Bishop Palace

Bishop Palace

Bishop Palace

Earl Palace

View of St.Magus

Bishop Palace

While Alessio and I were in Scotland we had a mini holiday with my parents to the Orkney Islands. We got the ferry over from Scrabster to Stromness which took 1.5 hours, it was an pleasant journey on the way we got to see the Old Man of Hoy. I will post some photos at a later date.

Stromness is the second largest town in the islands, it has a long winding Main Street with lots of lovely shops and interesting buildings. We visited the Pier Arts Centre and enjoyed looking at the great works of art. There was also a lovely small bookshop which I just had to checkout.

We stayed in Stromness for two nights at the Ferry Inn, which was very nice. We then drove to Kirkwall where we stayed for three nights.

Kirkwall is the largest town in the islands, we stayed at The Shore which was also a lovely place to stay. Right next to the hotel was a bar called The Standing Room Gin Bar, sadly we did not visit it but it did look good.

We visit the magnificent St. Magnus Cathedral, known as the most northern cathedral in Britain, founded in 1137 by the Viking Earl Rogvald, in honour of his uncle St Magus. It is a very stunning building.

We also visited two Historic Scotland sights, the Bishop`s and Earl´s Palaces, both are ruins but in very good order. From the top of the tower in the Earl´s Palace you get a fantastic view of the cathedral. The also had a quick look at the Orkney Museum, there is also the Highland Park Distillery but we did not visit it.

We stopped in at the Kirkjuvagr Orkney Gin distillery, we did not go on a tour but I had a gin cocktail. In fact my father and I tasted all the different gin from the islands over the three evenings and they were all really good.

We did lots more on this trip and will be posting it over the coming months.

Hope you all having a lovely weekend