My rainy EXPO Milan experience

 

Ciao Guys! How is everyone doing around the world? Sadly I officially got out of my holiday mode and definitely got into university schedule... :(
Anyway, one week after I started university me and my parents got the chance to go to a quite special event that went on here in Italy just a little bit out side of the city of Milan ... The 2015 EXPO! 

If you don't know what I'm talking about, the Expo know as " world's fair, world fair, world exposition or universal exposition is a large public exhibition. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in varying parts of the world and this year 'Expo 2015' is hosted in Milan, Italy ". 
Well you can read even more if you look up in the internet like I did :D Especially if you go and check out Wikipedia. Here's the link to the page where you can read the history of this big event and where and when was host in the past and even the possibilities in the future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_fair
You Are Welcome :D 

Me and my parents went there on the 13th of October. That was the only day we could go all together and, since you had to book the date of the visit in advance, we planed and booked everything a month before. Once you book the tickets you couldn't cancel anything even if the day you were going would rain... aaaand that's exactly what happened to us! :( 
We were soooo  U.N.L.U.C.K.Y because till the day we had to go it was so sunnyyy, on the day we would go the forecast on TV said this " Tomorrow, 13th of October, there will be a cloud of low pressure that will bring bed weather with heavy rains and wind all over Italy...FROM TOMORROW 13TH OF OCTOBER!! ". Ok, the words were not exactly these but you can get what I'm trying to say! 
Anyway even if the rain ruined all our expectations and at the end of the day it was tiring, wet and extremely chaotic, we were quite happy because we spent time all 3 together (a rare think because of the job of my parents) and it was nice  

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L.i.t.e.r.a.l.l.y. "A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE".
   
But now without furtherer doing here for you guys my experience there through the photos I took! :)
ENJOY!

S.O.A.P n° 1: "Cappuccino Break Lovers"

Ciao Everyone! As I wrote in one of my last posts, today [FINALLY] I'm starting the new serie BUT before I own you an apology because for my whole summer break I didn't update this blog at all so ... I'm really really sorry everyone!
When I wrote my last post I had just finished all my first year UNI exams and so right now I'm attending my second year (HEELP)!

As I said before I had this idea for a new series that I was still not sure how to name it but now I've got the idea of something like S.O.A.P. aka "Story Of A Pic" ... mmm I kind of like this name so YES! WHY NOT? I'm going to name this new series of posts S.O.A.P.

A LOT of my pics that I really love unfortunately don't make it to the final post or sometimes I take just one photo that I fall in love with but I end up thinking that it makes really no sense to post only that lonely one. I often take pics with my iPhone or with my Nikon D5300 and most of the time there's a story or feeling that NOW I want to share with you...write you the story behind it - the reason I wanted to capture that moment :)
So here for you guys... lets the party begin :)

S.O.A.P #1

I have a really nice relationship with my mom. She is almost like a best friend for me because we can really talk about anything, we go out whenever we can but at the same time when we fight we fight like wild animals like only a mother and a daughter ca do...hihihi

Well, these two pics where taken one and a half week before my exams started that means around the end of May. 

I study in a different city from where I actually live (Verona) so I had to move. By the way the city I moved to is called - in Italian - Padova but even known as Padua in English.        
For this reason now I live a bit far away from my parents so whenever my mom or dad get a bit of free time from their jobs they come to visit me even if they are exhausted, especially my mom!

From last year we have created this kind of new habit of finding a place to sit and enjoy some bakery and a cup of cappuccino or latte macchiato :) so we found this a.m.a.z.i.n.g place right in the center of Padova owned by a pretty famous pastry chef here in Italy called Chef Luigi Biasetto who owns 

CAFFÈ CAVOUR PADOVA

Piazza Cavour 8/9 - 35122 Padova (PD)!

Trust me, I'm a big foodie person - my dad is a chef so I grow up looooving food! - this place is the bomb in everything: in taste and calories too ;D 

It might be a bit price if you decide to sit and enjoy a good coffee and if you compare it to all the other caffeès existing here in Padova but no!! You must enjoy at least once in your life a place like that exactly like me and my mom do, without thinking of the bill. Then c'mon LOOK AT THOSE PICS!! THEY ARE PIECES OF ART!! Seriously D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S and worth to try!! 
If you don't won't to spend a few euros more than you usually do then you can take-away without any problem...that will cost much less! 

Let me know if you ever get the chance to go there and how was your experience :) 

This is the web site: http://www.pasticceriabiasetto.it/
This is the place : 

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Venice 2015

Hello you guys! How have you been? I'm quite busy with university studies these day for the fact that in a couple of week I've got my final term exams [HELP] but today I wanted to have a break from the hectic work so here I am writing about my last one-day trip to Venice.

Venice is quite close to the city where I live. It takes more or less 2 hours with a normal train from the nearest rail station to my hometown so it's really not that far away! 

It's not my first time going there - because it's really close to where I live - every time somebody like a family friend or a relative from anywhere come to visit us (we are the only one in our family living in Italy so...yeah) one of the places we take them to is Venice because . . . COME OOON who have never heard about the famous and iconic Venice?? 
This time was no exception too one of my mom's long time friend come to visit us for the first time ever with her big twin daughters [ that by the way I've never met before but only heard for my entire life and GOSH! Those two girl were the sweetest and the coolest girls in the world AAAND I was given my name because my mom was inspired by one of the twins that has my same name! BAAAAM ]

Anyway it came to my mind that I never filmed Venice or done anything so you already know the game ... I had to bring my Nikon D5300 and film this crazy city and so here down below the little video I uploaded on my YouTube channel

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VLOG: My Home Town

Ciao you guys! How are you all doing? 

I'm back in my dorm room  after a few days spent at home for a national holiday and because some good family friends of mum came all the way from Australia to visit Italy and of course my us for the first time here...so we had to take them to visit some places that you have to visit when you come to Italy and of course I took a lot of photos of those places and that I have to upload! WAIT FOR THEM :)

Till then you'll have to wait a bit because next month I've got my final term exams so sadly I won't be able to update this blog because I'll be out of my mind studying like crazy [HELP ME PLEAZZZ] :(

Let's not think about that now and let's enjoy a little video I posted on my YOUTUBE CHANNEL.

If you read my last blog post you'll understand everything about this video [the amazing little and magical village right next to Lake Garda...LAZISE] So without further interruptions watch this video :) Hope you'll like it as much as I do

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My Home Town!

So...Hello there! Long time no see - long -long time no seee! 

Ok well sorry for that but these day freaking BIG BANG (if you don't know them you guys should check them out! I LOVE THEM!) - a very popular Korean pop Idol group - came out last week with a new album and I LOVE THE SONGS!!! I'm pretty obsessed with them, listening to the songs 24/7 :D

Anyways last week here in Italy like anywhere in the world - I think- was a holiday, the 1st of May holiday ... Labor Day holiday! For that reason I got the chance to go home from Uni after 2 weeks! 

Now, I live 5 km away from a very beautiful little town called Lazise, that is exactly attached to the biggest/largest lake here in Italy: Lake Garda!
That little and very touristic town used to be my home town. I was born and raised there till the age of 10 when we moved to our very own house at Castelnuovo del Garda :( 

For that special occasion at Lazise there was a fair with little stalls full of anything: food, jewelries, staff for the house, wines...literally anything! So I went to see how all of this was and of course you already know my game :)) I brought with me my photo camera and took a bit of pics of my old lovely little town LAZISE!

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A Special Day

We all know which day is today! Right? You might now answer me "the 10th of May 2015" but no! Today it's not any simple and hot day of May, today is MOTHER'S DAY! 

There shouldn't be just one day to remember that your mum is special, that she has always been there for you on bad or good situations or to gift her with some flowers and chocolate! 
Mums must be celebrated and appreciated in any possible way every single day of your existence because if you- as I do- are alive and breathing in this world is thanks to our own mother (and obviously with a tiny help of your dad! SCIENCE . . . OR BIOLOGY)!

We are humans, we tend to forget the important things! I do to, sometimes I forget to show my mum appreciation for her hard work and every single thing she does for me! So it's good that in the world that we are living there is a day in which every single son and daughter can make there mother feel like the only remaining woman on Earth! 

So, YOU - or who ever is reading this - GO RIGHT NOW TO YOUR MOM, HUG HER LIKE YOU NEVER DID BEFORE AND KISS HER TILL SHE DOESN'T FEEL HER CHEEKS ANYMORE AND TELL HER HOW MANY TIMES YOU WANT ' I LOVE YOU MOM! '. If you have fight with her, just forget about it and make her a coffee or a the or take her out and to anything! Because that's what she has been doing it for her whole life ... ANYTHING FOR YOU! :)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOMMY! YOU'RE THE BEST MOM I COULD EVER ASK ♥ LOVE YOU!!

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Obviously

First of all . . . HELLO every one! As always after a trip I have to create a video with all the little clips that I've taken with my camera :) Recently I went for a weekend to the beautiful Switzerland to meet a friend.
 So here for you guys the video that I have upload on my YouTube channel called HeyMelani! Hope you all will enjoy it and make sure to share or leave a comment or anything :D 

Byeee and subscriiibe! 

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