Mexi Texi

Back for a dinner at my favourite mexican restaurant, Papar and Beer, and as always I walked out of there overly full that I almost felt sick. But it was good, very very good. Matteo and I had a chili nachos as a starter and the usual chicken fajitas as a shared main, talked about old common memories and why girls are so strange.... :)

Good night!

Xoxo

African Dance

Monday is my big training/dance evening. I start off with a 45 minutes class of total body workout which consists of step warm up, leg & bum training, arm exercises and addominals. After this my dance lession starts. Most of the time is "mordern dance" but from time to time the ballerina teacher changes and we get to try something else.

Today it was time for african dance, something I did try few time in London as my friend Ann-Sofie went on to the african dance lessions every week. It is a dance very different from the others as it is everything but malleable. You have to put all the foot down very hard and most of the time you stand with your back curved, plus it is a very quick dance so you sweat a lot. It is very hard but very funny. It is a good exercise for the back and the addominals and I know that tomorrow I will have pains a little bit all over...

Now I just had a Swedish meatball dinner and will have a shower before heading to bed. I am so tired.

Good night!

xoxo

Big handcraft fair in Rho

Such a nice fair! Rho fair is one of the largest fairs I have ever seen and since a week it has been filled up with hand crafts from the whole world. I didn't have big expectations and maybe that's why I just loved it. Francii and I walked around for almost 6 hours seeing hand made things and delicatessens first from different regents in Itlay and then from the different part of the world. It was just amazing to see everything and try all nice things.

Italian liquorish 

Eating a Sicilian very nice "thing"....

xoxo

Dinner in Bergamo

After a busy Saturday with lots of must do's I met up with Fracii that came up from Genova for a weekend in Milan. In the evening we took the car to Bergamo to go for dinner with Karol, Jaione and Ricky. We went to a very nice restaurant called "Voci di Mare". Afterwards we went for drinks outside the centre somewhere. Different and nice evening!

Tonight Francii stayed here in her old house and today we're off to a big fair in Rho.

Happy Sunday!

xoxo

Antonello Venditti - Unica

~ Antonello Venditti - Unica ~

Antonello Venditti is and have always been one of my favourite artists. Everyone that has been living with me in Sweden, Ireland, London or here in Italy has been forced to hear some of his love songs as "Ogni volta", "Amici mai" or "grazie Roma". I would say that Antonello Venditti is one of the reasons I had big dreams to move to Italy as his songs and lyrics makes Italy a very special place...

It's been long since he came out with something new and as he's quite old I didn't even think he would make new songs so it was a big and great surprise for me when he few weeks ago announced his new song "Unica" and then his new album with the same name came out containing 9 new fantastic songs. This spring he's out for a tour that I absolutely can't miss!

If you're not able to see the video above, click here for another one.

xoxo

Traffic block in Milan

I have been to the gym and now I am on my way to leave some shoes at the shoe repair and some sweaters at the dry cleaning and this is the streets I see. Big streets that normally are fully blocked of traffic any time of the year today are completely empty, only some taxis and buses are circulating. It is amazing, I love it! All this because to try to bring down the pollution in the air inside the city. I wish that Milan would be like that every weekend!

This weekend is a bit extra empty anyway. As we have two red days Wednesday and Thursday you could only ask for one day off from work and suddenly you had 5 days off to go away somewhere and many Milaneses have left for the Alps.

Later on I gonna go out to try to get together the last Christmas presents hoping that it wouldn't be too much people around....

Xoxo

Aperitivo at Tre Marie with Tamii

What a fantastic week! On Monday I was in Rome. On Tuesday I worked. On Wednesday and Thursday  I was off. Today I worked. And tomorrow and Sunday I am off again.

Today at work I had to manage alone without my mentor. I was panicked in the beginning but after a while I realised I could actually handle most of the duties alone if I just used my head a little bit. I had a very busy day and even if I could leave earlier I had to stay over to finish off some things.

As a little well needed after work I catched up with Tamara at Tre Marie for a drink and some food and afterwards we went for a walk. However, now it's 22.30 and I'm already at home in front of a movie on SKY. Good Friday :)

Good night!

xoxo

Autumn walk in Milano 2

It feels a bit weird and wrong to say that we have been out for a autumn walk in the beginning of December. December is one of the three winter months and in two weeks it is Christmas but today has been a beautiful sunny day with 16 degrees and with all the beautiful read and yellow leaves around I can't call it anything else than autumn.

Today has been another bank holiday here in Milan, or actually today is a bank holiday in the whole Italy but to be honest I don't even know what we celebrate today...? But for sure it was a perfect day to be off as the temperatures raised and the sun shined like never before. Torri and I took the opportunity to go to Milano 2 for a long walk among all the birds and the colorfull leaves.

Tonight we have been for sushi and now we're watching the X Factor, the TV show I both love and hate but can't stay away from :)

xoxo

Gym, spa and cinema day

Today is a bank holiday day here in Milan. We're celebrating Sant'Ambrogio (in English known as Saint Ambrose) which was a bishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century. He was one of the four original doctors of the Church.



I spent the morning at home and after lunch me and Luisa took off to GET FIT GYM AND SPA where we spent 1,5 hour in the gym training every part of the body and afterwards we relaxed in the fantastic spa they got. Very nice!



Tonight Torri first helped me food shopping at a mega big supermarket and then we went to the cinema to see Fabio Volo's new film "Il giorno in più". It is a romantic comedy movie made after the famous book with the same name. Ironically enough the movie talks about a couple where one partners is moving to New York for work and how they handle that situation........ It was a nice movie and now I would like to read the book too.

Good night!

xoxo

Double up at the gym

After three days in Rome without moving around too much I decided that it was time for a hard evening at the gym tonight. After 20 minutes on the cross trainer I went to the body building class followed by a very fun but hard step dancing class.

Now I'm at home eating and gossiping with Luisa.

Xoxo