Iconic Galle Face Green, Sri Lanka!

Long time no see! Hi everyone! How is everybody doing? :)
Today I'm going to show you one of the most iconic place of Colombo city: Galle Face Green!

The iconic Galle Face Green is a five hectare ocean-side ribbon strip of land, which stretches for a half kilometre along the coast between Galle Road and the Indian Ocean, in the heart of the financial and business district of Colombo. 

It's not a beach in the traditional sense where you bath - not possible due to possibly poisonous marine life - this beach, which is now the largest open space in Colombo, is only for viewing.

It's a really lovely place where children, students, tourists, lovers, friends and families gather here to spend their leisure time by enjoying the traditional Srilankan food (sold by many little street-food vendors that you can find along the walking path), playing cricket or football, very popular is flying kites or even in the evening by taking pictures of the amazing sunsets...if the weather allows you!
 
Condition that for my luck :( DIDN'T HAPPEN that only evening! 
I got to know while scrolling on Instagram that everyday at 6 p.m. (18:00) there's a Srilankan Flag Removal Ceremony held by the navy and it's quite a pretty thing to watch (at least once in your lifetime) and something even better, around that time you can clearly see the sun disappear in the waves of the Indian Ocean. ALWAYS if the weather allows it!

For the fact that I've never seen all that (or at least I can't remember it anymore) and I've got a huge passion for photography, you can clearly understand at this point why I wanted to go there!
You can definitely see from the first pic of this post that on that day the weather was as usual: very humid and sunny. So when we decided to go and see the Ocean we didn't imagine that in a split of seconds after we got to Colombo, everything would have change so drastically!

As you can see from the pics, the weather was terrible!
We arrived around a quarter to 6 p.m and we couldn't see any pole with a flag on waving to the wind (nooo)!
So we asked to two policemen on duty and they told us that usually when the navy (or the military) see that the weather is not looking good, they anticipate the ceremony to half an hour before but wait next to the pole (at any weather conditions) till is 6 p.m. and then march away!

See!!! No flag when we arrived  :((

I was heartbroken for how unlucky I was for the whole situation but I was with my baby boy cousin (not baby anymore...he will be 20 next year! haa) and with my mum, so we laughed, talked and got to eat some yummy street food for the entire evening! 

This is the beauty of this place: it gets people together and whatever you'll do, it will surely be a pleasant time!

So get out of your house or hotel or wherever you are and visit GALLE FACE GREEN in Colombo city...and maybe before going check out the weather broadcast!!!

That's all for today and I want to say sorry for being absent for quite a long time. I hope I won't take a long time again till I'll next post something but till then BYE BYEEE and THANK YOU! 

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Went To Sri Lanka!!

The view of Doha city! I had the transit in Qatar this time :)

 Hello Everyone and Happy Belated Easter! How was your holidays and what did you all do?? Did you all eat like piggies like I did? :D
I just realised I didn't write anything for a quite long time and as always I apologies for that but I've been busy with a lot of exiting things...university stuff obviously is not included in the exiting things I did!
Let's start with the FIRST exiting news: I WENT TO SRI LANKA LAST MONTH!!!  Yes, finally after 2 years I went back to visit the motherland of my parents ... the beautiful Sri Lanka even known as Ceylon! 

Unfortunately it was the first time I stayed for such a short time :( I stayed for 8 days! Really just the time to say 'hello' to as many relatives I could see in less than 10 days, stroll around Colombo and mainly stay with my lovely Achchi and Seeya (that means Grandma and Grandpa in Sinhalese)!

Mum's parents! My Seeya and Achchi (Grandpa and Grandma) <3

I was really not expecting to do anything exiting or explore around - because even though I've always gone to Sri Lanka at least once every year, I never visited AAALL the ''must visit'' places in there! You know, if you go there once a year (if lucky enough) most of the time is spent visiting FIRST the relatives (a thing that I love) and THEN if there is still time you go around to visit different places - so this time I was really not expecting anything!

BUT I was so wrong! I really enjoyed my staying there, even more than I expected! Mum was already there form January (because her vacations starts in that month) so I joint her there and I just love to travel when is just the two of us! I don't know, I love to travel just with my dad too but mum and I have this "best-friends" relationship that makes our "mother and daughter" relationship even more special ♥ 

Ok, I think it's enough for this post! Get ready you guys to see a LOT of pics from my trip in Sri Lanka! Unfortunately I won't put the pics in this post because there are way too many and I won't even put all of them in another post, so I decided to separate my pics based on what I did or where I went! 
I don't know if I explained anything but just wait to see some beautiful pics! I don't know if you understood till now but I'm so proud of the upcoming photos!!

So as always thank you so much for pass by my blog and read my posts! I really appreciate it :D BYEEE! 
See you in my next blog-post! :D

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New Year Walk!

Well...HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! 

I think you already know at this time how I am! I'm late but my wishes are truly felt... I wish you all a very Happy New Year! 

How was your New Year Eve? Did you party all night with your favourite people or did you spend a quite night at home with family? 

As for me... well in my family there's this tradition of spending New Year Eve anywhere, not necessarily at home but it MUST be spent all together! My mum will kill you if you miss this thing! I'm joking obviously (ooor maybe I'm not) 😈 

On New Year Eve me and my dad decided to go out for a walk. I think one of the most popular resolutions every year that each single person wish to come true is probably to get fit and be healthier and YES that's ours too! We couldn't wait till the 1st of January to be healthier so we started before, on the 31st of December!! XD 

It was a beautiful sunny day of December but if you were in the shadow everything was frozen (look at the pic above) so yeah a typical winter day! We went to walk in a place called "Camminata sul Mincio" (= "Walk on the Mincio" ) at Peschiera del Garda. 

It's truly a beautiful almost magical place to go if you are looking for some inner peace because you are surrounded just by the nature, some animals like ducks (any kind of birds actually) and fishes! Cars are not allowed in this place- not even motorbikes - it's a path allowed only to people or bicycles, that's all! So very green and peaceful - You all won't be disappointed :) 

That's all I have to write for now! I started UNI again so as usual I'm busy with it but I'll be back very soon with new pics and new S.O.A.P posts! So yeah...THANK YOU FOR PASSING BY

BYEEEE!!! :D

Here are down below my pics of that beautiful day! ENJOY! 

Top Model Dad! ;D

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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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20!!!!! OH MY!

OH MY!! Right in this moment - well not exactly now but a few moments before starting to write this post- I'm hiding my face behind both of my hands. "Oh my" are the two words I can't stop repeating in my head because in one minute (yes! Right now it's the 19th of October, time 23:59) I'm turning 20 TWENTY TWENTY TWENTYYYYYY! o.0

I've got a lot of mixed feelings in this moment: I'm happy because my new three crazy and lovely roommates that I'm with, stayed up till now just to jump in my room and shout at might night the traditional "Happy Birthday" song for me when they usually are already snoring in bed! If only you could see the huge smile crossing my face now! :D I can't be more grateful for this little gesture ♥  

At the same time when I think about the fact that I just turned twenty and that my teenage life is over . . . WOW! I can't believe it! Ahaha!! I can start laughing hysterically because the fact that when you turn 20 you are officially in adulthood! I don't know, it's like everyone, from now on will treat you in a different way. I really don't know what I'm saying I guess it's just that I get a tiny bit scared thinking of the future from now on and I'll repeat FROM NOW THAT I'M 20!! 

I have so many things that I want to achieve, that I want to explore, know, do, go... a lot of things and as I said before I'm happy, scared, nervous....think of and emotion and I'm feeling it! 

I guess this is the magic of being young, of being TWENTY NOW!

THANK YOU EVERYONE IN MY LIFE FOR GIVING ME ALL THE LOVE AND THE STRENGTH! THANK YOU TO EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING THAT I GOT TO KNOW IN THIS 20 YEARS, FOR TALKING TO ME AND GOT TO KNOW ME AND MADE ME THE PERSON I'M TODAY! AND FINALLY BUT NOT LEAST THANK YOU MAMMA (mom) AND PAPÀ (dad) FOR GIVING ME LIFE! 

I hope to keep on living happily like I did always in this 20 years of living! THANK YOU TO ALL THE BIRTHDAY WISHES! 

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New Series

Ciao people! There is one thing that I wanted to do for a while now!

Well let me explain a bit...I always think that I don't update this blog enough or the way I want to. I want to post pics and videos of all the things I do, not only during a special occasion or when I travel but even normal life stuff too! Well...I know I didn't explain very well; explaining is really not my thing, I always try hard but I'm really bad in it.

In a few words what I want to say is that taking pics is really a huge part of who I am. It's really a big passion that I had since I was small and while maybe in the past I used to take pic only during spacial occasions, now growing up I started to appreciate little everyday things and started to want to save them for the time coming in pic form.

Because I love to save things as a memory, a few years ago I even created - we can say- an electronic dairy that anybody from all over the world can see. Even if I've lived almost for only 20 years (I'm 20 in October) I really have many many things to say! I swear in 20 years I have experienced and went through a lot of things!

Maybe in the future I will even talk more - on my YouTube channel - or write more about me so that you all can understand who and how I became the person I am today :)

BUT ANYWAYS NOW ... I think I wrote a lot but still didn't explained anything :/ grr...What I want to do from today on is to post more of the pics I take and write the story behind them! I take a lot of pics but never post them or went I write a blog post a lot of pics don't make it to the final post so from today on I'm going to post one by one all of my pics maybe - who knows - everyday! 

I really hope that you'll appreciate how I see the world through my iPhone 4S and Nikon D5300 lens :)

BYEEE

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