je t'aime PARIS ● DAY 1

Good evening people! How is everyone doing? 

Today I'll show you a special place I visited last month for the first time ever! 

You might already know by now which place I'm talking about from the title of this post and, yes it's PARIIIIIIIS in FRANCE!!! 

Wow I still can't believe I went there. It still fells like I went there in my dreams! 

Last month I was able to visit this lovely city after my friend found and organized basically everything. 

I always wanted to go one day in the future but my friend, on the other side has been dying to go there since high school!

I think if you want to go or do something you should seriously sit down and just go for it! If you just keep on telling by words that you want or want to do or go somewhere, those words will remain just words you said to the air! So take your PC and start looking for flights and hotels or pick up your phone and call your trustworthy travel agency and look for good occasions!! Like Shia LaBeouf says: " JUST.DO.IT! " aahaha! :D

So after I said him that and a few days passed by when he called me and told me that he found everything and if I wanted to join him... well I immediately accepted!! 

I mean Paris is Paris and when the flight is cheap as well as the hotel - even a very good hotel close to the center - well! No one can refuse such a tempting offer!! 

On the 12th of November (2016) we woke up around 3a.m. because the flight was very early in the morning from Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport. 

The flight was very calm and from where we live here in Italy it takes less than 2 hours to go to Paris. 
As we arrived we were immediately welcomed from a gorgeous and super orange sunrise (as you can see in the pic above). From the small Beauvais-Tillé Airport in Paris we took a bus to the center and from the center, we managed to find an underground line that brought us right a few meters away from our hotel. 

We were staying at the lovelyCarlton's Hotel in Montmartre neighborhood.
Here is the website of the hotel: http://www.hotelcarltons.fr and the map down below, if you are interested as well for a place to stay while in Paris :)

After we checked-in our hotel, we officially started our advanceeer in Pariiis!! 

So, here fo you guys the pics of our FIRST DAY in PARIS! 

Stay tune because I'm going to show you day 2, day 3 and our final day 4! Thank you as always and ENJOYYYY!! 

Who knew Paris was so cold in November? I definitely didn't know that. For some strange reason I always thought France's weather was like Italy's but NO! Now I know and I should have know that even before because if you think about it, France is much up on the north unlike Italy! [I feel so dumb thinking about how ignorant I am sometimes!]

We were even unlucky during our staying there. We didn't have a single day without rain or a cloudy sky :( but, or well, we can't have everything from the life so let's just appreciate what we get and have got! :D

ahah!I was trying so hard and then my friend showed me the ultimate result...

Our first Croque Monsieur

Macarooooooons!!! 

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Happy 80TH ♥

Hello Hello everyone! Even though half of January is already passed...Happy New Year! How has been 2017 so far for you guys? 

Mine so far has been good and bad at the same time. 
Good because finally this past Friday 20th January, for the first time ever one of my dearest cousins came to visit us here in Italy. She is here in Europe for a volunteering work in Hungary and because tickets to travel to Italy are much cheaper here than in Sri Lanka, she finally saw where we live after hearing us talking about it for 21 years (that's our age and yes she is my same age, just a month older than me!).
Second good thing is that today I bought my first ticket for this year and I'm officially visiting this cousin in Budapest!! WOW I can't wait because it will be my first time ever in Hungryyyyy!!! Kyaaaaaaa!!

And now sad because [haaaa] I won't go to Sri Lanka this year. We can't have everything from life, I know that, but it's heartbreaking for me because today, Monday 23rd of January is my BEAUTIFUL GRANDMA'S 80TH BIRTHDAY!! 

We celebrate 80 years only once in our lives so I really wanted to see her this time! Maybe you'll be tired of me for repeating this but I love both my grandparents a lot. They are the main reason why I love Sri Lanka and the girl I'm today! I can't believe how lucky I am to call them my grandpa and grandma and I will never stop telling it! 

So today this blog post is dedicated to them both, Paul Wickraamarachchi (83) and especially the birthday girl Vivian Hathurusinghe (80 today) my sweet Grandparents.

My baby Mother and my beautiful Grandma

83 years old vs. 20 years old

80 years old vs. 20 years old

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY ACHCHI! ♥

Here for you guys the video I created in their honor with the clips I filmed when I went to Sri Lanka last year. Hope you all will enjoy it us much as I had filming them like a stalker,

If you didn't know yes! I've got a youtube channel where I uploaded the video at the beginning of this blog post. I hope you check it out and let me know what you think of it I would love to read it! :D So I'll leave the link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoHdNPBX6vQ and the video itself above! 

ENJOYYY and BYE BYE!

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VLOG: My Sri Lanka

Ciao you guys! How are you all doing? 

I'm back - I know - I'm back after like a million years  >.<' but I'm back...and that's what counts the most [Right??]! 

I'm really sorry I can't dedicate as much time as I would really like to spend on this blog. I started this blog because I wanted to write about the things I happen to do and experiences I happen to live, what I think and want to do in the future...basically I started all this to share my life with awesome people out there: a online diary that anyone could read and enjoy reading! 
For all these reasons I'm so mortified by the fact that in all these 3 years since I started this blog, I probably wrote about not even one eighth of the things I've done :(

Ah ok! Let's not think about that now [BUT sorryyy again you guys] and let's enjoy a little thingy I posted on my YOUTUBE CHANNEL.

If you didn't know yes! I've got a youtube channel too where I uploaded a little vlog of my last trip to Sri Lanka! I really really love it and I hope you check it out and let me know what you think of it I would love to read it! :D So I'll leave the link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkvv34dF0FI and below the video itself! ENJOYYY and BYE BYE!

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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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