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A little big town.    Right now I am at my mum`s house in Germany, totally happy about my stay here and that my grandparents from Brazil (who I only see once a year) are visiting us and my cousin is coming today either! As the last time my grandparents were in Europe is 8 years ago, there is still a lot we want to show them, when they are here.  So this is why my summer vacation this year turned to a full of travels vacation. And I am so happy about it as I definitely have a passion for travel.  Our first stop was Tübingen. As their "tourist-info-map" says, "a little big town". Ans it is so true. It seems so small, but there is so much to see! With this beautiful, cute houses you feel like you are walking through a puppet town, it`s incredible.  The next stops are coming in the next posts. If you want to stay updated about my travels, follow me on INSTAGRAM .

Love for Italy.  Hi folks, I know it`s been a while again (waaaaay too long), one of the reasons is: you can`t imagine how long it took me to upload this post!  I know we are living in the 21st century, anyway it took me a very long time to get my first smartphone (!), for many reasons. Now that I have one and it`s camera is much better than my old Fuji I`m only taking pictures with it.  So I tried so many times to upload the pictures on the blog and it never worked! Till now!  Okay lets get to this post: It means a lot to me! First, I have always wanted to add some posts about art to the blog. And this is going to happen in this post, but especially in some next posts.  I`ve been to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, when a dream came true for me, and I can`t wait to share with you my favorite paintings which are located there.  I was jumping like a little child through the gallery, so happy about all the beautiful paintings, which I know all fr...

Enjoying some family time. Finally (pooh, that took a long time) here is my last #bahiamemories, from my 3rd week there in November 2013. I already mentioned many times in these two posts ( here and here ) how beyond amazing the time was that I spent in Bahia last November.  This pictures show even more what a stunning paradise it is there. In this post I`m showing you the second week I spent there with my whole family in the all inclusive hotel Vila Galé . It was just an incredible time, the weather was perfect, we talked and laughed a lot and enjoyed so much the time together. I started to do crochet, thanks to my mum and my grandma, they really took a passion out of me, it`s my favorite hobby right now. (By the way there is some project coming in the next months that has to do with it, stay tuned ;)) As you know I actually  don`t like to post family pictures, but these are just to cute :) 

Surreal moments. Sometimes (in the most inappropriate times, like under the shower, during work,...) I get the best ideas for the texts I want to write on my post, but with no possibility to write it down! -.-  This unfortunately happened again with this post, anyway I can remember some parts of the text I wanted to write, so I`ll do my best now. My cousin`s wedding was just surreal.  The wedding was on a Saturday. On the Friday before they had a "welcome cocktail party" that was beyond amazing and with the location, the music and everything this could have been already the wedding. But it wasn`t it was "just" the welcome party. As I already said, the location was unique, I have never been to somewhere like this before. As you maybe already read on this post , my cousin married in Salvador, Bahia, in Brazil. For the welcome party, which also was a white party, w e got to a skyscraper where a "Baihana" (a woman from Bahia) welco...

Sorria, você está na Bahia. Smile, you are in Bahia. That`s what stands all over the place when you arrive in Salvador airport.   Anyway, how could you not? Bahia (which is a state in the north of Brazil) is like heaven on earth, it`s paradise. Why? Just have a look on the pictures below and you will totally understand! ;) But beyond the landscape I also love their food! They cook a lot with coconut milk and palm oil, lots of shrimps and fish, this state is like made for me! (Have a look on the "Moqueca de Camarão" below ;)) I`ll try to post some "Bahian recipes" in the next weeks. Why have I been there in November? First of all for my cousin`s wedding. But when you fly to Bahia (specially in my case being so far away) you can`t stay for just one weekend, right? So we decided to spend the first week in a house on the beach with friends, than we had the wedding, than we stayed one week in the hotel  Vila Galé (a hotel chain from Portugal), which was at the...

LETS TALK ABOUT GRAZ .  Graz is a beautiful little city in Austria. My mum and I went there about 3 weeks ago. Why? Because we wanted to discover new cities in Austria.  What came first into my mind when we were talking about Graz: City of design. So I definitely had to visit it!  When we arrived I immediately got overwhelmed with all the beauty!  The mixture of modern and antique is amazing.  We stayed at the Hotel Wiesler , which is also all about design and I loved our room (see in the pictures below). I`ve always been amazed by most churches I`ve already visited. This also reflects on my studies. Whenever I`m able, I choose a lecture with a topic about anything that has to do with churches. For this semester I chose the topic "Winged Altar" (something like the one on the 8th picture below). And I`m super excited to learn more about it. Like why it actually does exist and just imagine the whole history that is behind every single one! I think t...