holidays - *akka design*

3 février 2010

I'd like to start my new 'blogging season' -this

I'd like to start my new 'blogging season' -this is, blogging again after a long busy period without internet at home- with some pictures from our holidays in Sicily last Christmas. The most delicious tangerines ever, from my boyfriend's family land....

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Tags: nature, holidays, landscape, trees, travel

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11 novembre 2009

A taste of autumn in Dublin

I was back in the dirty old town for five days. I met my friends, went to my favorite places, visited the Knitting and Stitching Show , got dripping wet, then a sore throat and a cold, and ate some delicious carrot cake. I loved being there again.

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Tags: cities, holidays, craft, dublin, travel

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20 août 2009

Sunny days and no internet

I am now in Spain, enjoying a real summer with high temperatures, picnics and trips to the beach. I don’t have an internet connection at the moment, so regular blogging will be difficult in the next weeks. As soon as I have my own place and proper internet...

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Tags: animals, nature, holidays, personal

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1 juillet 2009

A Swiss moment

In the latest posts I got very excited talking about Freiburg and I forgot to mention that before we arrived to Freiburg we spent a few hours in Basel, Switzerland. Here are some pictures: This is one of the moving objects in the very eccentric Jean Tinguely's...

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Tags: holidays, photography, travel

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30 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg: a mini shopping guide

During my recent trip to Freiburg I spent most of the time walking around and I discovered really nice shops. I started writing down the addresses as a reminder to myself but then I thought that it would be a good idea to share my experience on the blog,...

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Tags: cities, holidays, shopping, personal, photography, travel

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30 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg: a mini shopping guide (the list)

So this is the list of the shops shown in the map above, organized by category. Fabric/Yarn/Haberdashery: One of the reasons why I didn't want to come back to Dublin. In Freiburg the shops selling textiles and yarn are many, and most important: I like...

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Tags: cities, holidays, shopping, travel

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30 juin 2009

(the list continues...)

Art/Antiques/Curios: Difficult to visit all of them on a short trip. These are some that caught my eye. - Langenbeck (Gerberaustrasse 6): metal antiques and replicas for period hauses. Beautiful period tiles from Replicata .- Silvia Steinhauser (Gerberaustrasse...

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Tags: cities, holidays, shopping, travel

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26 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 5)

Selected Freiburgers:

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25 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 4)

Walking around Freiburg and discovering pattern and texture:

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25 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 3)

Apart from being very green city Freiburg has a special relationship with water. It just seems to flow everywhere. They have a river (the Dreisam) and a canalization of it along the old town, several public fountains of drinking water and what is most...

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24 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 2)

Freiburg is one of the greenest cities I've ever seen. Of course the fact of being in the Black Forest it's a good starting point, but all over the city you can see how they have taken care of this aspect. They have several city parks, many houses have...

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24 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 1)

We spent last week in Freiburg , Germany, visiting friends. It was the second time I visited the city but somehow this time was specially enjoyable. We loved the summer weather, the smell of lime tree blossom everywhere, the good company of our friends...

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22 juin 2009

Back from Freiburg

Hi, I'm back in Dublin and already missing Freiburg so much. We had a great time there. More photos and a mini shopping guidecoming soon!

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Tags: cities, holidays, personal, photography, germany

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1 mai 2009

From my sketchbook: the olive tree, study for a print

This was inspired by the beautiful olive trees I always see in Sicily when go there on holidays. It was supposed to be a sketch for a dry point print, but I'm not happy with the results of the print, so I show you just the drawing. Maybe I'll come back...

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Tags: nature, etching, print, sketchbook, Sicily, holidays, ink, landscape, trees, photography

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