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The Time Traveler’s Wife

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Or how I felt while walking around the idle, romantic little alleys of Rome. Well, I am by no means married, but I definitely felt like I somehow got lost and fell down the rabbit hole in another time. All the old buildings, the warm winds, the friendly people, my princess complex sky-rocketed.
I always seems to have an excuse as to why I don’t post as much as I used to, mostly because it’s true, I would post a lot if I wouldn’t be bothered by other stuff I have yet to wrap my mind around. This time it’s family issues I put the blame on, my beloved grandma might be sick, but we don’t know yet for sure how serious it is. I want to keep being positive, but it’s so damn hard. I just can’t imagine life without my grandma, she means the world to me and I honestly don’t know how I’d get over it if she suddenly disappeared…
Anyway, I wasn’t planning to be melodramatic here, I just wanted to share some more of my view of Rome, but I assume you’re already used to it, I always start talking about something and end up ranting about complete different stuff. I hope you’ll have a great weekend!

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Roma mi amor

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Saturdays always put me in a lazy mood, the kind that when it strikes, all I want to do is think, listen to music and read. Nothing more adventurous or calorie consuming. Most of the times I end up strolling on memory lane. This morning while I was cleaning my laptop a bit since it was running low on space (again), I stumbled upon a batch of pictures from Rome that I haven’t shared with you.
I fell in love with Rome, it made me feel almost as princessy as Paris did. The thing I miss the most abut it, though, is the company. I miss spending whole days with mom and her alone, not being bothered by work or school or any worry in the world except the soreness of our feet caused by too much walking.
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The Saints of Rome

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The weather has been weird lately and on top of that I caught I cold so I didn’t really feel like stripping in the snow for outfit photos last week. I felt particularly bad last night so I ditched school today. I wasn’t planning to blog today because I’m always kind of cranky and sour when I feel unwell, but I was browsing through my folders to find useless crap that should’ve been deleted long ago but I’m a messy and lazy airhead and they’re still there and I found some beautiful pictures I haven’t shared with you from my trip to Rome. I’ve been to Rome last January with my mom and it was great. The weather was incredibly nice for January, at noon we could walk around in Tshirts and the food was YUM. The only happening that ruined my travel was the fact that on the fifth day my memory card decided it would be nice to fail completely and erase EVERYTHING, every single photo I took. I changed my camera and memory card, but I’m never going anywhere without my laptop again.

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Vatican was really nice though, except for the fact that I experienced one of my greatest fears there. I felt like crying, puking and killing my mom, but hey, I did it in the end without doing any. Ok, I cried, a little. I’m terrified of small spaces and mom insisted we climb up in the Sistine Chapel to see the city’s panorama and that it’s not a big climb, it’s not that high nor small(she’s been there before). I only said yes thinking I’d have a great view, but to my disappointment we were too high for great panoramas. The climb started nicely, enough space to spread both your arms, but as you went further, guess what? It was squeezing in. The final set of stairs was so narrow, I couldn’t spread my elbows. I can’t explain the terror I felt as I was climbing, to see it get more and more narrow. On the last set of stairs I started to cry and told mom I can’t do this, I was basically begging her to let me out, I was panicking and couldn’t breathe at all. Sadly there were a lot of people behind mom and obviously there wasn’t enough space for two people on those stairs so I had to suck it up and climb. When we finally got up a wave of nausea hit me when I saw how high we were and considered jumping at the thought of having to go down those stairs again. But hey, I did it. I overcame my biggest fear. Although I’m still scared of small spaces.

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IMG_6252 copyI was struggling to take photos, bending over fences or trying to squeeze in between the bars when this little fucker came in and decided to ruin it for me. I forgave him though, he was kinda cute. And stupid, just look at his face!

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IMG_6270 copyAnd here’s an emotionally and physically exhausted me. I miss my hair like that sometimes. Also I find it a little funny how the title for this post came to me while humming the Saints of LA from Motley Crue, nothing holy there for sure.

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IMG_6280 copyAfter my little hobo-esque break, we went into the Sistine Chapel. I’m not a religious person, but I kind of like churches, although some paintings/statues creep me out and most priests annoy me. But inside I saw, for the first time, the light. No, not god, literally the light. It was amazingly beautiful, an architectural wonder. It was my mom’s turn to beg me to leave.

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IMG_6318 copyI really miss Rome. It’s very different from my city, but I felt I could live there. Have you ever been to Rome? Did you enjoy it?

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Rome by night, part I

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I’m going through one of those phases when nothing seems right nor good enough: clothes, food, photos, my words seem to be too jumbled and generally not suitable for a blog post. It might be one of the side effects of the cold that I have. So I’m going to cheat a little and instead of posting the frizzy hair tutorial which I planned I will post photos from Rome again :) I hope you’ll enjoy nevertheless~ImageImageImageImageImage

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Rome by Day part II

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Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. A wonderful quote by Dr Seuss which fits my feelings best now. I really miss Rome and spending time carefree with my mother. Part one is Here.

Another batch of pictures, Rome through my eyes. I’ve been looking up quite alot those days, huh? :) I hope you liked it! Next post will be about Japan, stay tuned! Take care, lovely readers~

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Where all your wishes come true

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Also known as Fontana Di Trevi, where a coin grants your wish :)

At least that’s what I thought. The real legend, if we can call a legend real, is that if you throw a coin with your back at the fountain, over the shoulder you will return to Rome. It is said that there are roughly 3500 euros thrown into the fountain everyday. I’m really curious who gathers them all (probably the state, but I like imagining that this little dwarf come out at night and picks up all the money :D )

It’s the most beautiful fountain I’ve ever seen. Especially if you visit it at sunset, the sight is breathtakingly beautiful. I don’t think my photos picture the sights well enough, but for the ones who haven’t seen it with their own eyes, it gives an idea about it’s astonishing peculiarity.

We bought ice cream (the only one that I ate in Italy, damn you diet) from a gellateria close Trevi.

I had chocolate and mint and it was delicious.

 

Obviously since it was a huge exception and a rule-breaker we had to take dozens of pictures to immortalize the moment and feel guilty afterwards~

Have you ever seen the fountain yourself? Did you like it as much as I did? :) Hope you enjoyed and take care, dear readers!

 

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Rome by day, part I

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Such beautiful memories overwhelmed me as I browsed through this pictures :) Italian architecture is so beautiful, I shot around 500 pictures only of the buildings and details.

Well, there is not much to explain about this post. Please click on the pictures to enlarge them.

I hope the pictures were as delighting for your eyes as they were for mine :) Stay tuned for part II ! Take care :)

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Aeterna lux solis

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Hello, hello! As I promised, an outfit post. Unfortunately, these are the only outfit pictures that I have in Rome (good thing it’s my favourite outfit, too~) since the camera’s memory card broke. I wore this on the day we visited the Vatican and to be honest it was a terrible day. Not because of the weather, nor because of the queues; the weather was amazing, most of the time I was able to stay only in this suit jacket, I didn’t even need a coat. And the queues went surprisingly fast.

I’m terrified of heights and small places, but my mom forced me to climb with her in the cupola to see the panoramic view of Rome. Mind you, at the beginning the stairs were a medium width, but they kept getting smaller and smaller, at one point I got dizzy and couldn’t breathe properly. When I thought everything was over we took a turn and I saw the smallest and steepest staircase I’ve ever seen (and hope to be the last one, too). I started to cry and panicked, the only thing that made me keep climbing them was that there were people behind me and I had no other choice. It was horrible! I fell down stairs so many times I lost the count actually (when I came back from Japan I fell on the airplane’s stairs and hit my face on the pavement), therefore going down the stairs was even more terrifying. My fingertips were sore from how hard I pressed in the rail and I had a bruise on my elbow from leaning too hard into the wall.

To make everything better, it wasn’t even worth it. The cupola was way too high so the panoramas came out like shit… Then I had this uneasy feeling all day long.


What I’m wearing:

Fur (fake): H&M

Shirt: Zara

Jacket: Zara

Pants: H&M

Flats: Zara

Not too much variety on that day~ I had a purse from Guess but we took this pictures on the veranda of the hotel after breakfast and I didn’t take it with me~

Me and my beautiful mother :)

And bloopers, haha :D I can’t do a mini-photoshoot without fooling around~

As always, please click on the pictures to make them bigger :) Also, any opinion on to how to improve my posing or outfits is more than welcomed. Thank you for reading and have a nice day!

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Rome: A Beginning

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Even if I got back on sunday, this week has been hectic, therefore I had no time to write about my trip to Rome. As some of you know, I transferred to another school. I’m having quite a hard time, to be honest, new classmates, new teachers, subjects, it’s a lot to get used to. But that’s not what I should write about now, I’m sorry.

I spent five wonderful days with my amazing mother in Rome last week. We had the luck to have amazing weather and it wasn’t too crowded since it’s extra-season, if you know what I mean :)

But like every good thing, there’s a bad side to it too. My CF card broke on the third day, so I lost around 300 photos. I was devastated, but we managed to find a new one and took almost all pictures again, except for the ones with the Colosseum (inside and outside) and the ones taken at the St Paolo Church, which was my favourite from all churches we entered. And of course, the pictures of my outfits from the first days. Unfortunate.

The second unfortunate happening was on the metro. It was really crowded so I asked my mom to take the next one (I’m terrified by masses of people) but she stubbornly said no and got in. I almost got mugged, thank god I had my phone in my skirt’s pocket, not my jacket’s, because a man shoved his hand in my pocket and ran at the next stop…

It would be an awfully long post if I wrote everything at once, so I decided to break it into several posts:

Rome by day

Rome by night

High fashion street in Rome+my own shopping

One outfit post

This is what I thought about, but who knows, maybe I’ll change a few aspects (I hate following plans)

And lastly, a picture of me and my beautiful mother :) I hope you enjoyed this brief introduction and are looking forward for my next posts! Take Care <3

PS: Please click on the pictures to enlarge them :)