Slovak Adventure

After our trip to Sardinia, I spent some time with Alex in Slovakia visiting more family and enjoying more great food :) .

This summer has been good to us and we even kind of avoided the heatwave. We tasted the best icecream in Kosice and went for a ride on the little train around the city.

My old painting still  hanging in the AIDA icecream shop there. It reminds me of my childhood.

Kosice by night, there's a certain atmosphere here that always feels good. It reminds me of my childhood and the hot summer nights feel so good.

Summer through my iphone

Hello my friends,

I know it took me a long time to get back to the blog, my life has just been crazy with all the moving and building the new house. Nevertheles I'm back and I'm so happy that the moving is over. It's not easy to move in the first place and with a toddler that's another stressful part but all went well and the last winter the house was finally finished and in the spring we moved in. Still in the same town though so not that much has actually changed for us. Alex still goes to the same preschool and I still work only my office location has changed.

In one week Alex will be starting an Ecole Maternelle which is a French version of a Preschool but actually they do take it much more serioussly in France and make it more like the real school. It is even in the same building as the primary school in fact.

Now I want to share with you some pictures from this year and from my holidays in the summer. I think you might guess the location...

We flew to Sardinia this year, just south of Corsica this pretty island was very new to us. Costa Smeralda and a town of St Teresa was something new to see. I was glad to spend some quality time with my family and really enjoyed the beautiful warm sea and the amazing Italian food. I could go on about the food as you can imagine, everything from pastries for breakfast to pasta and pizza and vegetables made in every possible way.

Where did you spend you holidays? Did you get hit by the heatwave?

Croatian escape

 I've been waiting for a good holiday on the beach for too long. Honestly it's been on my mind almost every day so I finally got my beach escape! This country has everything you are looking for if you love clean beaches and turquoise waters. The calm sea is perfect for babies too so it offers all kinds of advantages. To small and big. Sea, mountains , sunshine, ice cream , what else could you possibly want? Ok now I really sound like an advert for Croatia but it honestly is one of my favorite places on earth. Haha I should maybe move there. Actually I did spend some time living and working there. So it does feel like my second home.

 The walks around the emerald beaches are my favorite. After swimming ofcourse. I did a lot of that. Had some amazing ice-cream too, found some great flavours this summer. My favorite was farm cheese and dark chocolate.

 Luckily we had a really good weather the whole time , but we did get some big waves towards the end of the trip and that is my favorite thing to do a little floatie surfing through the big waves, well big for the Adriatic sea!

 We also visited Makarska town almost every evening with my parents. It's fun to walk through the markets and shop the souvenirs.

 We stayed in an apartment in a small village where just above the village we had a fire in the mountains. Almost every day we watched the planes trying to put it out. The storm did the job in the end.

I feel better with a tan and so relaxed now, it has to last me through the whole winter though, which is quite long here. Thank you Croatia. Now I am ready for the autumn!

Capri calling

 This cold weather outside makes me long for Capri the most beautiful place I've ever visited. Maybe it had an extra magic to it because it was the spring but it was just such a charming place that I deffinitely want to go back. I am craving it right now the warm breez, the beautiful turquoise see around the island and the flowers of all kinds, lemon trees and the smell of jasmine and bougainvillea flowers... definitely my favorite place for holidays.

 Because Capri is an island it has a specific climate and constant breeze so it's never too hot and the fauna and flora are just amazing. There are little lizards everywhere on the island and they are completely harmless and kind of cute. The people are very friendly in a typical Italian fashion and the views from everywhere are.. well stunning doesn't even describe it.

 There are two towns on the island, Capri and Anacapri, I personally stayed in Anacapri since it's less noisy and further from the crowds.The whole island feels very welcoming and is like a big family where everybody knows everyone so you feel like on the second day you say hello to most people.
This island has won my heart (and all my six senses) with amazing food, beautiful smells of flowers, wonderful views, birds singing, heavenly warm breeze. I am hoping to go back very soon. Actually I am daydreaming about it right now and looking at plane tickets already for spring again.