In Milan

Posted on September 20, 2008

Here I am, devastated, sleep-deprived and already about to jump onto another plane tomorrow. Jetlag is killing me, I cannot even figure out what time it is, if I have to eat, drink, sleep… or anything else.

Too bad I already had the tickets to Tirana when I got an invitation for a couple of runways in the Milan Fashion Week… oh, well.

At least I’ll go and pampered at home. Can’t wait to see my friends. I’ll be busy doing nothing for the next couple of days :)

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Travel Itinerary

Posted on September 18, 2008

It’s past midnight and I still have to put a couple of things in my suitcase. I can’t believe I left so many last minute stuff to do…

My flight is scheduled at 8.30am, meaning I’ll have to be out of here be 6am. OUCH! This is so NOT me, I am unable to function properly before 9am. But this is barely the hard part. It’s the 15 hours flight that will destroy me. Oh right, I didn’t mention where I’m off to. Destination: Milan, ITALY.
I’m connecting in Chicago, where I’ll have to wait for a couple o hours before my next flight.

I’ll finally land on earth, losing 9 hours (which I will suffer jetlag conseguences for), Fri 19th, at 8.30am (local time).

My Friday will already busy with work: meet with a client, check a studio, rent lighting for an upcoming photoshoot and maybe finally rest.

Sunday: Off to take another plane, going in Albania. A little visit home for a week or so.

I hope I can drop by for some more updates on my travels and post new pictures!

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Back from Vegas

Posted on July 18, 2008

I’ve been back for a couple of days. Had to catch up with emails, mail, prints I had to deliver and finally today I have a couple of minutes.

Not much to say about Vegas:

- I have no pictures to show, didn’t even get my 5D out of the bag. Sorry, I was busy doing else :)
- I didn’t relax, AT ALL
- I didn’t even get a little tan poolside (it was hot as hell, but cloudy all the time)
- Last but not least, I didn’t get filthy rich (I can’t deny I hoped for it!!)

Huh, this came out as “what I didn’t do in Vegas”. :P

One thing is a bit weird though: we had one of the most delicious sushi dinners in the middle of the desert. I don’t even wanna know where that tender fresh fish came from, but Shibuya is a great place (your bank account may have a stroke but you’ll have an absolutely great experience).

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Vegas, baby!!

Posted on July 11, 2008

Tomorrow morning I’ll be headed for Las Vegas with Markino. Taking a couple of days off :) since we have the catsitter (mother-in-law) we thought we might as well take advantage of that!!

Maybe I’ll write sth here on the blog, maybe I won’t… in any casy, we’ll be back home on Tuesday night.
Anyone else in Vegas this weekend? :)

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Carmel by-the-sea Part II: fine dining

Posted on June 22, 2008

So we arrived in Carmel in the late afternoon (see Part I) and were just a tad hungry. Since we were by-the-sea what’s better for lunch than seafood? So we searched for places to eat and found one pretty interesting looking… the only problem: they were already closed for lunch and were reaopening for dinner at 5.30PM (I really don’t understand who has dinner at 5.30 in the afternoon… but whatever…). We had a little tour around the place and got back when the restaurant opened, to finally have our LUNCH. Yes, at 6PM.

While waiting for the food to come:

I love tiny details like fresh flowers… and I love bread:

The list of wines was incredibile, we didn’t know what to get… but finally I decided for a local (Napa Valley) Sauvignon Blanc. Great tasting.
There were only 2 things I didn’t understand:
1. why do they always suppose it’s the guy that tastes the wine? can’t women know about the wine too?
2. white wine needs to stay cool but I didn’t see any basket of ice around the place. after a certain point I couldn’t drink my wine anymore, too sour beacuse of the temperature. good we only got the half bottle as we were to drive back home

Well, there might be a 3rd thing I didn’t get, which is: all around us people got RED wine with fish (is known that red wine kills the taste of fish, covers it completely). Anyways.

If you ever go to this place or any other that has it, get a good glass of Napa Frog’s Leap:

Here comes the food. My Lobster Spring Roll (served with an interesting apricot cream) was delicious:

Markino got himself an Endive Salad:
Menu said it was made with Gorgonzola cheese, only it was a simple blue cheese (good but not Gorgonzola). I assume this plate had like 2000 calories, I tasted the pecans and there was a lot of butter around them… but we’re not on diet right now :D

Unfortunately, when we got the rest of the food (Gulf Prawns risotto with artichoke and red bell pepper; and the pasta special), I forgot to take the pictures. Guess I was really hungry!!!

We called it a “day” with a couple of Creme Bruleè:

Anton & Michel <— visit the website for more info on this restaurant.

We can’t wait to get back and taste some more delicious food!

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Carmel by-the-sea part I

Posted on June 22, 2008

Yesterday was a really hot day here in the Bay Area, so me and my husband decided to drive to Carmel. Lucky for us the weather was getting cooler as we drove south (at a certain point, I think somewhere near Gilroy it even started raining).

Here are some pictures from the day…

Still driving, shot from the car window (at 70mph :P)

Look at the sky:

My precious better half didn’t wanna come anywhere near the sand…

But when I INSIST, I can be very convincing!!

Looks like EVERYBODY has a dog in Carmel…

Crazy couple inside the freezing cold waters :O

And… this is me…

I’m the worst model ever. I can’t stand people taking pictures of me. Maybe that’s why I chose to stay behind the camera :)

As I was saying, there were A LOT of dogs around… some of them came pretty close, but this one managed to leave humid proof of presence on Markino’s T-shirt.