79.Amsterdam flower market.

Some pics of Amsterdam's colorful and lively flower market.

This market is a matter of floating market, one of the few in the world, and the flower stalls stand on the houseboats. Here you can find almost all sorts of tulips and of course you can buy them and also buy the bulbs to plant by you own in your home, and that's what my sister and me did!

In Amsterdam there's The Amsterdam Tulip Museum too that we visited (here in this post there's one pic of it: Amsterdam photo diary), where you can find all history of this type of flower, its variations and its origin and you'll be surprised to know that it doesn't come from Netherlands but from it's from Turkey ;-)

- Marta -

78.Amsterdam photo diary.

At the begging of April Marta and I went to visit Amsterdam for three days! We stayed at the Room Mate Aitana Hotel that we really suggest you: it's been built recently, it's clean, modern, very comfortable and just 10-15 minutes far from the train station and the main places of the city by walk! All the entire experience in town was really a city crush! We felt in love immediately with the view: every house is so cute and characteristic and OMG all those bridges..magical!! One thing has really impressed us: everyone in Amsterdam looks relaxed and happy, maybe it's because of the bikes ahah I don't know but it was contagious :-) 

We found a lot of vintage shops in which we spent a substantial part of our time, we recommend absolutely: Episode that has two locations in the city and it's very equipped. Seriously it was a perfect sisters trip!! 

We were just a little bit disappointed by the Van Gogh Museum because we thought we would have found more paintings of the artist, but probably some were temporarily out, lent to other museums. 

What I loved most was to stay sitting outside in one of the many cool bar just watching around cool people… Oh yes Amsterdam is such a cool city and it would be great living there, maybe in the future who knows?

As you can see in the pictures our outfit were quite dedicated to keep warm and comfortable that means: pants, sweater, coat, a small bag and of course Nike shoes :-)

These are some pics of our travel, stay tuned for other ones about flower market or about bikes.

- Emma -

76.Italian heritage in Caserta.

Last week I went to Naples with my boyfriend a couple of days (as you could see on my IG profile): one we visited the city and the other one we moved to Caserta to see the famous Reggia. What impressed me most was the big size of the place, I mean the size of the palace that was I think bigger than the French Versailles Palace and most of all the length of the park: it takes 3,5 kilometers from the entrance of the palace until the end of the garden (where there's me in the pic). It was so suggestive and such an amazing experience and we couldn't do without walking for all the way of the park, so we took a walk of more than 7 kilometers in that magic sunny day. Even if the Versailles Palace will always remain a gorgeous place often bounded to a lot of fairytales, the "Reggia of Caserta" deserves to be visited once because it belongs to the wonderful Italian heritage we have the luck to own in our country.

- Marta -

66.Paris sera toujours Paris.

Has it ever happened to you to have a little time for yourself maybe during some breaks or some idle times, maybe during a journey? Yesterday, while coming back from Milan to Vicenza by train, I was taking a look to some photo albums on my notebook and I ended up to one of the many Paris photo albums I collected. Actually during my first degree I had the chance to study for five months in France thanks to the Erasmus project. I stayed in Tours, the Loire capital, which is an hour by TGV far from Paris, so you can image how many times I visited la ville lumière :-) Nevertheless I never could be tired of that city because you know Paris sera toujours Paris :-) Sure enough after that period I went to Paris another time with my boyfriend, just few days, one to go to Disneyland Paris and few others to visit some museums and to wander around :-)

Here there are two pics: the first one taken on Le Pont des Arts and the second one at Le Jardin du Luxembourg.

Enjoy your Saturday people :-)

- Marta -

64.A pleasant idleness.

Last week I went two days to the mountain with my grannies and my boyfriend! I literally spent that little period just doing nothing except skiing, eating, sleeping and of course making me cuddle! Since during last months I've been working a lot and even during my Christmas holidays I didn't stop a second, those days were an absolute pleasant idleness useful to recharge my batteries in preparation for next months too. Sure enough this February is going to be a full month: new projects and new challenges!! Can't wait people!!

In the meanwhile these are some pics I took with my iphone during some breaks from skiing :-)

- Marta -