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19 septembre 2009

Spain coast to coast

Well, it seems that my life is going back to normal after a month of holidays/relocation from Dublin. I arrived to Barcelona two weeks ago and I've been so busy since then: I spent three days going around the whole city to view rooms to rent, then I had...

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Tags: cities, personal, photography, travel

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10 juillet 2009

An old book

I love Eastern European music, so I was extremely happy when our friends from Antikvariat Mingus in Prague gave me this book. It's an old Czech book about Romanian folk songs, showing a selection of folk music scores with lyrics both in Czech and Romanian...

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Tags: music, folk costumes, photography, books, travel, embroidery

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8 juillet 2009

The Beaded Brooch is being featured by Etsy

The Beaded Brooch is being featured by Etsy seller I Heart Crafts in her blog . Check the colorful Flickr Group too.

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Tags: craft, etsy, handmade, photography, blogs, textile jewellery

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7 juillet 2009

Fallen Princesses

Wondering what happened to Snow White, Cinderella and Co. after the end of the tale? The Fallen Princesses series by Dina Goldstein challenges the "happily ever after".Via How about orange .

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Tags: art, photography

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1 juillet 2009

A Swiss moment

In the latest posts I got very excited talking about Freiburg and I forgot to mention that before we arrived to Freiburg we spent a few hours in Basel, Switzerland. Here are some pictures: This is one of the moving objects in the very eccentric Jean Tinguely's...

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Tags: holidays, photography, travel

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30 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg: a mini shopping guide

During my recent trip to Freiburg I spent most of the time walking around and I discovered really nice shops. I started writing down the addresses as a reminder to myself but then I thought that it would be a good idea to share my experience on the blog,...

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Tags: cities, holidays, shopping, personal, photography, travel

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26 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 5)

Selected Freiburgers:

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Tags: cities, holidays, personal, photography, travel

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25 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 4)

Walking around Freiburg and discovering pattern and texture:

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25 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 3)

Apart from being very green city Freiburg has a special relationship with water. It just seems to flow everywhere. They have a river (the Dreisam) and a canalization of it along the old town, several public fountains of drinking water and what is most...

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24 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 2)

Freiburg is one of the greenest cities I've ever seen. Of course the fact of being in the Black Forest it's a good starting point, but all over the city you can see how they have taken care of this aspect. They have several city parks, many houses have...

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24 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 1)

We spent last week in Freiburg , Germany, visiting friends. It was the second time I visited the city but somehow this time was specially enjoyable. We loved the summer weather, the smell of lime tree blossom everywhere, the good company of our friends...

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22 juin 2009

Back from Freiburg

Hi, I'm back in Dublin and already missing Freiburg so much. We had a great time there. More photos and a mini shopping guidecoming soon!

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Tags: cities, holidays, personal, photography, germany

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6 juin 2009

Botanic Gardens #3: Van Gogh's Delirium

It's iris season, and at the Botanic Gardens they take it seriously.By the pond, in a more relaxed way...

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Tags: garden, nature, botanic gardens, flowers, photography

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6 juin 2009

Botanic Gardens #4: The Weirdos and The Beauties

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Tags: garden, nature, botanic gardens, flowers, photography

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1 juin 2009

Caucasian Folk Costumes

Azerbaijani woman from Baku. The Azerbaijani. Photographer F. Orden. 1897. Girls wearing traditional head dressings. Village of Tubenel. Balkaria. The Balkar. Beginning of the 20th century. Photographer N.A.Bush. Nogai women. Dagestan. The Nogai. Photographer...

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Tags: fabric, Eastern Europe, ethnical, fashion, folk costumes, links, photography, websites

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