Naples Day 4 - Villa Pignatelli

We started our 4th day in Naples with a visit to the Villa Pignatelli, which was right next to our hotel. The villa which was built in the early 19th century and had several owners such as the banker Carl Mayer von Rothschild and Prince Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes, who all changed some of the interiors, was given to the italian state in the 1950s by its last owner, Princess Rosina Pignatelli and then turned into a museum, so that now everyone can admire its beauty.

Naples Day 4 - Outfits [His & Hers]

We started our 4th day in Naples with a visit at the Villa Pignatelli. The villa from the 19th century with its beautiful garden offers the perfect location for some pics. Note to myself: the next time get rid of all the photo equipment before taking outfit pics.:)

Naples - Day 3 - Stabiae

The path is the goal - and when speaking of our trip to the excavations of Stabia, that's the case. It all started with our train, which stopped in a tunnel for about half an hour -at 40 degrees. Arrived at the train station, there were no signs, which bus to take or way to go. So we once again used Googlemaps and asked people. After walking for an hour on country lanes, we reached our destination. And it wasn't what I expected. I thought the excavations were like Herkulaneum or Pompeii - a connected area of diverse buildings, but they told us, there were 2 mansions, 800 metres apart from each other. So after visiting the first, we continued our hike and walked along a highway (of course without a sidewalk) to the next one. And was it worth all the efforts? If you love ancient excavations, then I would say "yes". Mainly because, in the Naples area,"thanks" to the volcanic eruption, everything is better preserved than anywhere else, so that you can still see the wall paintings and floors and you don't need much imagination to travel back 2000 years in time. You also have the whole sight to yourself and almost have any other tourists, who "get on your nerves". 

And what was most important for me - we got the adventure and travel story for free. 

Naples - Day 2 - Snaps from Pozzuoli

Day 2 was a bit of a fail, because the weather wasn't on our side. Actually I wanted to visit the ancient sight of Cuma, but because you can barely find any information about the trains and busses on the internet, we took the train on spec with vague information from a forum. Unfortunatelly the aforesaid bus drove by, which was supposed to leave every other hour and after a one kilometer walk, we didn't even find the busstop. And then in addition it also started to rain heavily and there was thunder and lightning and we had to abandon our plan and drove back to the next bigger town, Pozzuoli. I saw there was also a amphitheater, but when we reached it, it was already closed, one hour prior to the given closing hour. So we then just walked around the historical center with lots of bars and little shops. Here you can find all the sights in Pozzuoli.

Naples - Day 1 - Archeological Park at Baia

Today we digitally travel on to Naples, on of my favorite cities. Which is the best word that describes Naples? I would say "authentic", because the city is so full of contrasts. Beauty and ugliness are so close to each other, that you're sometimes shocked. But that's exactly, what fascinates me the most. And of course there are plenty of ancient sights, super nice people and delicious food.

I wonder why these are the first photos on my memory card, because to be true, this is our second day. But can I count the arrival day, when we just got to our hotel and then went to the supermarket? I don't think so. On day 2, which I now call day 1, I wanted to visit Baia, a ancient, luxury beach resort for rich romans. In Naples or I would say, the whole south of Italy, everything isn't as structured and organised as you are used to, when you are, for example (like me) from Germany. So I didn't find any information about the trains or busses on the internet, so we just took the next train in the specific direction and then used Google Maps. We walked uphill and downhill for almost 1 kilometer to find any street sign, which led us to our destination. But that's part of the adventure and you really feel like an explorer. The best part of this complex is definitely the temple of mercury (temple of echoes). With it's lighting, the acoustics inside and the water, it really is a magical place and we would have stayed there for hours, if there hadn't been other tourists.

Here some articles for more information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiae

https://timelessitaly.me/2013/10/22/ancient-ruins-of-baia/

Favorites from the online shops #2

The current fashion is right up my alley. If I was a millionar, I would almost buy everything.

I love these ultra feminine pieces with playful accents like ruffles, tulle and lace in pink, yellow and pastel colours. And then there are also these edgy pieces like band-tees with cutouts or destroyed denim. I collected some of my favorite items from last month in my April folder on Pinterest,, which you can find here. And I also created a list on Amazon,with some things I found there.

Die Mode die es zur Zeit in den Läden gibt ist genau nach meinem Geschmack. Entweder super feminin mit Volants, Tüll und Spitze, in Pink, Gelb oder Pastelltönen oder teilweise auch rockig z.B. als Bandtshirt mit Cutouts oder als destroyed denim. Leider bin ich keine Millionärin, sonst würde ich die Läden leerkaufen. Hier also einiger meiner Lieblingsteile aus den Onlineshops aus de vergangenen Monat. Die Links zu jedem Teil findet ihr hier in meinem Pinterestordner. Ausserdem habe ich auch einige Teile auf Amazon gefunden, welche man hier in meinem Ordner finden kann.

Bershka

H&M

Last Snaps from Venice

So today we finally leave Venice and travel on to drumroll Naples, one of my favorite cities. A city of contrasts and surprises and suuuuper nice people. And of course there is sooo much to see. But back to Venice. After we visited Ca'Rezzonico, we had to drive to the airport and Venice said goodbye with pouring rain.

Dann reisen wir heute auch endlich aus Venedig ab und fliegen weiter nach ... Neapel, eine meiner Lieblingsstädte überhaupt. Eine Stadt der Kontraste und Überraschungen und suuuper netten Leute. Und natürlich gibt es richtig viel zu besichtigen. Doch zurück nach Venedig. Nach dem Besuch in der Ca' rezzonico mussten wir uns auch auf den Weg in Richtung Flughafen machen und wir wurden mit strömendem Regen verabschiedet.

Venice Day 4 - Ca' Rezzonico

On our last day in Venice we still had one sight on our agenda, that I found on Tripadvisor, which was the Ca' Rezzonico, a palace from the 18th century and also a museum dedicated to that epoch. The art from that time is one of my favorites, because it's so opulent and lavish. Not only the palace itself is beautiful with its decorations and architecture, but there are also wonderful pieces of furniture, ceramics and an awesome picture gallery. But why not see for yourself?

An unserem letzten Tag in Venedig hatten wir noch eine Sehenswürdigkeit auf unserem Plan, die ich mir zuvor bei Tripadvisor ausgeguckt hatte und zwar die Ca’Rezzonico, einen Palast und Museum des 18. Jahrhunderts. Die Kunst dieses Zeitalters gehört ja zu meinen liebsten, weshalb ich mir diesen Palast unbedingt anschauen wollte. Er ist nicht nur wunderschön an sich, sondern beinhaltet auch tolle Möbel, Einrichtungsgegenstände und eine tolle Gemäldegalerie. Aber seht selbst...

Venice - Day 4 - Walking from A to B

The beginning of our next day was a bit of a fail. On the homepage of Venice I read, that there would be a special opening of the Arsenal, which would normally be closed that day. So first we drove to the St Mark's Square to visit the St Mark's Basilica, where, to my displeasure, you aren't allowed to take photos, Then we walked to the Arsenal and spent almost half an hour to find the entry and then it turned out, that there wasn't any opening. So we walked back to our next destination.

Der Anfang des Tages war irgendwie ein Fail. Auf der Homepage der Stadt hatte ich zuvor gelesen, dass es eine Sonderöffnung des sonst an dem Tag geschlossenen Arsenal gäbe. Also sind wir erst zum Markusplatz gefahren, haben den Markusdom besichtigt, in dem man leider nicht fotografieren durfte und sind dann weiter zum * . Nachdem wir erst eine halbe Stunde auf der Suche nach dem Eingang waren, stellte sich herraus, dass es doch keine Sonderöffnung gab. Also sind wir durch die Gassen zurück zu unserem nächsten Ziel.

Outfit - Venice Day 4

If you imagine your outfits just in your head, most of the time they look different in reality. Often the proportions don't match in the way you thought they would. And this was my problem in Venice (next to the crinkle-prob the day before:). So I quickly bought a dress in a random venician boutique to avoid the outfit combination issue. Fortunatelly tthe weather remained good till the evening, when we travelled back home.

Wenn man sich Outfits im Kopf vorstellt, sehen sie in der Realität dann doch ziemlich anders aus. Oft passen dann die Proportionen nicht so zusammen, wie man es sich erdacht hatte. Das war dann auch mein Problem in Venedig (zusätzlich zu meinem "Knitterproblem").Also habe ich mir schnell noch ein Kleid in einer kleinen venezianischen Boutique gekauft, weil ich schon am Tag zuvor mit meiner Outfitzusammenstellung überfordert war. Zum Glück war auch relativ gutes Wetter, welches sich erst am Ende des Tages in ein Unwetter verwandelt hat.

Venice - Day 3 - Night Reflections

On our way back to the central station we stopped at the Marcus Square, because it was our last night and we wanted to chill a bit and "inhale" the aura one more time. Of course we had half of the following day ahead of us, but Venice at night is different and in some way magically mysterious.

Auf unserem Rückweg zum Hauptbahnhof haben wir noch einen Stop am Markusplatz gemacht, denn es war unser letzter Abend in der Stadt und wir wollten noch ein wenig chillen und das tolle Flair "inhalieren". Natürlich hatten wir noch den halben, folgenden Tag in der Stadt zur Verfügung, aber Venedig bei Nacht hat schon etwas magisch mysteriöses an sich.

Pinspiration March 17

Today after a long time you get a recap of my march-board, a best-of of my favorite editorials, lookbooks, streetstyles and best runwaylooks including some of the trends I love like Pink, distressed denim, pinstripes and metallics.

Of course a more detailed version with all the links you can see here on my Pinterest!

Heute gibt es mal wieder nach langer Zeit eine Zusammenfassung meiner März Pinnwand, ein Best of meiner liebsten Editorials, Lookbooks und Streetstyles inklusive der Trends Pink, ripped jeans, Nadelstreifen und Metallics.

Alles in ausführlicher Version und links zu den Seiten gibt es hier!