Mantua - Palazzo Te

As I told  you, more or less a week ago, my Mr and I visited Mantua.
The only museum that was open on Monday was Palazzo Te. I think I can find some inspiration for the ceiling of our future house.... :D

Mantegna's house

San Sebastiano Church

To be honest, I dream a garden like this.... ;)

As you can see, I feel comfortable in huge spaces.... :)

And so, we came back home....with a wonderful sunset!

If I can give you an advice, visit Mantua! it's wonderful!
But remember, not on Mondays! ;)
Have a wonderful week!

PROJECT 52: 2/52 Mailbox

ISO 1600, 46mm, f/5,3, 1/640, Nikon, Lens 18-55mm, Mailbox

I love receiving mail, "real" mail: postcards, letters, my magazine....so, I look at the other mailboxes, and I like them... :) This mailbox was in an old house, it is inhabited, and I thought it was interesting because of its colour and it reminds me a tiny house....
I wish you a very good week!

Mantua (part 1)

As you probably saw on Instagram, Mr and I want to do more travels this year. And this is why we started our year visiting a new city.
On Monday we drove to Mantua, a wonderful city of Northen Italy. We are really lucky, because we can visit a lot of (amazing) places without driving too much.
So, when we have to see some new city, I feel like a child. I format the SD card of my camera, I load the battery, and I'm ready to go. :)
Life isn't made of simple things?

Just a few things, if you wanna visit Mantova: don't visit it on Mondays because ALMOST EVERYTHING is closed, for everything I mean museum, Mantegna's house, ... the only place we visit was Palazzo Te and Palazzo San Sebastiano.
Here's some photos of the city!

Rigoletto

Rigoletto's House

PROJECT 52: 1/52 Balconies in Padua

Thanks to this wonderful lady, this year I'm starting a photography project.
I'm gonna take a photo every week, and I'm gonna share it here with you.

Here's the first one for this brand new 2015!

 ISO: 1600, f 5/6, 1/320 sec, 3 balconies in Padua

I took this photo in the a street of Padua, the city I live.
When I started using my camera, I discovered a new world full of details that I've never seen before. So I started changing my "point of view", I look up, look down, above, below...and my camera give me back what I see.
Welcome to "my" world!

A walk in Lienz

Talking about our little trip in Lienz, on Sunday we had a huge breakfast, and we have to walk, and we went to see the castle, by day!
Lienz is a small but very cute city!
We had a great time,we ate Austrian food (that is always a gooood idea) and we breathed Christmas air!!!
There were no snow, but for me it really was cold!

2014 you've been good to us!

And this is the real truth!
It started not in a very good way....I was without a job, and my Mr had fixed-term contract (of 3 months)...

...12 months later, he has an open-ended contract, I have an apprenticeship contract, and we bought a car.
During this year, we visited Amsterdam, (and I fell in love with that city), I turned 29 in Austria, we swam in paradise beaches in Elafonissi, I run a loooot, one of my best friends got married, my "brother" got married.

Yesterday morning I was driving to my work, the streets were desert, and I was listening to this song, I turned the volume up....and I was about to cry thinking about all the things I have.
I think that dark periods are necessary in our lives, so we can understand what really matters, and place a value on little things: all the nicknames my love gives to me, my mum that asks my advice for a new cross-stitch work, my sister's happines for snow, my friends that always make me feel so so so lucky just because they wish me a good day, in a very normal day, my colleagues that are going to consider me as a colleague, and not as "the new one", my blog friends, because are the best thing that this blog give me!

So....what about 2015? well, I hope I'll be able to find joy in little things, I hope to start a new little family with my Mr (living together!), I want to improve my photography, and I hope everyone realize their desire!

I wish you a very very very happy New Year, I hope you'll realize all you really want and need, I hope you'll never feel alone, and I hope you have a good friend you can talk to whatever happen to you. I hope you can visit that country you've always dreamt about, I hope you cook the best dinner ever, I wish you take the most beautiful photo, I wish you give the most passionate kiss to that wonderful guy, I hope you enjoy a good dinner with friends, I wish you die laughing, I wish you watch the best movie ever, I wish you had fun reading a book, I wish you smell the best flower, I wish you never stop trying, and never stop smiling.
Happy 2015 my friends!

Photo taken in Balos in August by Mr