A very chic pastry shop and cafe, with wonderful looking treats:
So, of course, I’m only human and had to try the strudel:
And yes, it was as tasty as it looks!
Author: get back, laurettadimmick
These artificial flowers are a dying breed
The green lungs of Milan
First, in traditional architecture:
Then, a modern adaptation:
I was told that the tall narrow apparatus that looks like a crane, on the top of both sections of the high rise, is actually a part of the irrigation system that keeps all this plant material alive.
Apparently the first high rise has been quite successful, for as you can see, a second high rise is going up nearby.
The Chelsea flower show
Galleria Vittorio Emauele, Milano
When I was in Milano at Christmas, I saw this beautiful galleria decked to the 9s. It was a bit less hectic today, and, even without the Christmas finery, this early shopping mall is still a sight to behold. I enjoyed it from inside and underneath the glass ceiling, but then I went hunting for a way to get outside and on top of the galleria. Do you think I found a way?
If you said “no,” then you don’t know me very well! I have the will and I find the way!
So, here it is from the outside, above the rooftop.
Florence’s Duomo facade, then and now
The elaborate facade on the Florence duomo was not created until the 1880s. Here’s a side by side of the duomo as it looks today, and the unfinished facade as work began in 1883.
Let’s go to mass in a beautiful church
In a church decorated with lots of New World gold. Sant’ Anna, Genova.
Another fabulous palazzo in Genoa, open for Rolli Days
I must admit I don’t remember which palazzo this was. Sorry!
Milan has some interesting high rise apartments covered with green plants; very avant garden
Here’s an older version of the same thing.
Orchids, a new look at an old favorite
During a quick stop in Lugano, Switzerland I saw these ordinary white orchids trained in a circle. Apparently its a thing here. I want one but it wouldn’t fit in my backpack!
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