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

Berlin at Night

It has been over a month since I last posted anything on here and it hasn't been because I have nothing to blog about, mainly I have not been very interested in posting. February has passed rather slowly and during the school holidays Alessio and I went to Berlin.

It was the first time for Alessio and I think he enjoyed it, hard to tell these days. We did lots of walking as usual and as usual I took lots of photos. I wish I had taken more of Berlin at night, but I like the ones I took.

I enjoyed seeing the East Side Gallery and will show the different murals, on another post. They were all very interesting.

Well that is it for now, next weekend I am going to London, to see my sister and mother. We have planned lots of things to do and see. This was our mother`s 70th birthday present. We planned it all has a surprise and she was quite happy with it.

Have a great weekend

Rome in July

Colosseum

Roman Forum

Roman Forum

Victor Emmanuel  II

River Tiber

Piazza Navona

Borghese Gallery and Museum

Last summer I visited Rome with my friend Arlene and it was my fourth visit to the city. Suffice to say it is the last time I will go there in the summer. Yes I knew it would be hot but it seemed to be hotter than usual.

We saw the outside of the Colosseum, we walked by the Roman Forum, saw the Spanish Steps, the Pantheon, Piazza Novona, Piazza del Popolo, Borghese Gallery and Museum and Campidoglo. This was lots of walking and stopping for refreshments.

My next trip will be to Berlin in February, which I am looking forward to, Alessio hasn't been before so will be planning stuff that hopefully he will like.

Enjoy your weekend

365 Book Photo Challenge Days 145 to 160

Thursday 21st Nov

Friday 22nd Nov

Saturday 23rd Nov

Sunday 24th Nov

Monday 25th Nov

Tuesday 26th Nov

Wednesday 27th Nov

Thursday 28th Nov

Friday 29th Nov

Sat 30th Nov

Sunday 1st Dec

Monday 2nd Dec

Tuesday 3rd Dec

Wed 4th Dec

Thursday 5th Dec

Friday 6th Dec

I have a lot of catching up to do in my book posts and I changed the format a bit and put the dates under the photos instead of the actual days.

Day 145 - The Secrets We Keep - by Lara Prescott - I learnt some history reading this one

Day 146 - The Vanishing Stairs by Maureen Johnson - second book in the series

Day 147 - Frankly in Lovely David Yoon - one of my favourites in 2019

Day 148 - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren - I have so much reading this one

Day 149 - City of Bones by Cassandra Claire

Day 150 - My possible tar pile for December

Day 151 - Illumicrate for November

Day 152 - My Perfect Girlfriend - Karen Hamilton

Day 153 - Two books I bought

Day 154 - At the Book Brocki in Zurich

Day 155 - Look Alive 25 by Janet Evanovich - always love to read about Stephanie Plum

Day 156 - Murder at the British Museum by Jim Eldridge - a new series for me

Day 157 - The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins, which I still have not read

Day 158 - Books in the bookshop

Day 159 - Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver - a very good historical fiction book

Day 160 - Books in a Spanish book store

Hope you all had a great weekend