Discover La Bella Nissa and let her be your first!
by Anna Maria D’Andrea Nice is a city rich by its beauty, culture and history While millions are turned to the city of lights awaiting Sarkozy’s faith and possibly the demission of it’s Italian Model First Lady, Carla Bruni (in, of course, elegant French fashion), let’s turn our gaze to a city that has inspired...
Moscow: Discover the Epitome of Fabulosity
by Anna Maria D’Andrea Visit the Kremlin fortress Russia…Brr….Moscow…Brr….It would seem that for most of us the eastern European mega giant is often only associated with the fairy white season and nothing else. At best, maybe those colorful Russian dolls deemed by some enchanting and by most the trade mark of Russian folklore. This sums...
Madagascar – Southeast Africa’s treasure
by Anna Maria D’Andrea Caressing southeast Africa, lounging in the Indian Ocean, Madagascar is one destination that is sure to leave all lover’s quarrels at bay. Given, you may need a little preparation for this trip, but as many other things in life, the best always comes with a few complications. Your reward for just...
Fall in love with Ischia – The Neapolitan gulf’s forgotten island
by Anna Maria D’Andrea Ischia; this forgotten island imprisoned by the Neapolitan gulf, only 30 km out of Naples and cousin to famous Capri, has the same pull and enchantment of that old park you used to play in during your earlier days or maybe simply a special place in your eyes that you call...
Dreaming of la Dolce Vita? Kiss Perugia
by Anna Maria D’Andrea Located in the central and magnificent region of Umbria, Perugia has raised among the world’s most notable artists such as Perugino, honorable teacher of Renaissance wonder Raphael. This same city has been an integral part of Italian history as far back as the Etruscans and has been a summer vacation home...
Dreaming of Elegance? Waltz into Sisi’s Vienna
by Anna Maria D’Andrea Vienna: the royal home of world beloved Sisi and source of all her unhappiness. Anyone approaching this city could do it with rather pessimistic and slightly vengeful eyes. And for good reasons: the idea of a rigid Hapsburg court and home to the most horrible mother in law history has yet...
Dreaming of La Dolce Vita? Meet Juliet and her dear Verona
by Anna Maria D’Andrea “In fair Verona, where we lay our scene … A pair of star-cross’d lovers” (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Prologue) deeply look into each other’s eyes with only witness a setting sun. It was at the very beginning of a time where you feel that first heart beat. Not the kind...
Dreaming of La Dolce Vita? Flutter in Trieste’s Constellation
by Anna Maria D’Andrea Italy, a land that generally results into a direct corealtion in our minds to: romance, mandolins, and a sublime culinary world, has layed its foundations in the midst of much blood shed, violence and divides. The “Resurgence”, which initiated only in the beginning of the 19th century and laid to rest...
Dreaming of la Dolce Vita? Slip into the fall in Il Salento
by Anna Maria D’Andrea “Cozy” is a key word that I happily attribute to Il Salento. Like this adjective, the South-eastern region conveys warmth, acceptance, affection and above all welcoming. When the meaning of a land vaguely equates to “the place amid water” you are most likely to expect a breath taking sea, or more...
Dreaming of la Dolce Vita? Wonder in Fellini’s imagination – Rome Part II
by Anna Maria D’Andrea And then there was Roma…Annually, monthly, weekly, this is one city that I can’t seem to ever grow tiresome. Oddly enough, every time I get the gracious opportunity to walk its streets again, I discover it with new eyes for the first time. Every single time I catch myself thinking: “really?...
Dreaming of La Dolce Vita? Wonder in la città eterna Rome- Part 1
by Anna Maria D’Andrea I am a beauty junky and I dare say most of us share this common trait. We all enjoy beautiful clothes, beautiful people, beautiful homes…Beauty in itself has become somehow a virtue almost along with being charitable and honest. Frivolous, I know but it’s an ugly modern reality. One of the...
Dreaming of City Lights? Let yourself be inspired by London- Part Two
by Anna Marie D’Andrea A world wind of culture, museums, pubs, great people, more pubs and lights, this was London. There are key moments in life where you feel right to the core of your soul that you are about to assist to something grand. Most Montrealers report having had this distinct impression during the...
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