Buongiorno Lucca! (Italy part 2)

We headed to the Lucca by train. The journey itself was already an adventure but Lucca - it was love at first sight. Such a lovely little city with sweet boutiques and ice cream bars. Our hotel was located about 5km from the city center, so we had a change to enjoy lovely tuscanian countryside.

This picture is from the hostel where we stayed the first night.

The bathroom was really cute.

Stazione Firenze Santa Maria Novella. Leaving to Lucca

In the lobby of our lovely hotel was this cute Grand Piano. I played it

all the time when we were at the hotel.

This lovely little river, Serchio, was in between our hotel and the city center.

Last three photos taken from the wall, which is surrounding the historical

center of Lucca.

The walk around the center wasn't as bad as I first thought. It was actually very enjoyable, especially because we stopped for ice cream. :) Views from the wall were lovely to both sides.

But soon I'll post more photos from Lucca and our quick visit to Pisa.

Love
   Anniina

Ciao Firenze, Ciao Italia (part 1)!

Now I finally have time to post some pictures from my trip to Tuscany, Italy. I was there with my mother for two weeks and I had the time of my life. And I certainly am going back there. :)

 This is from Frankfurt (am Mein) airport, unbelievably long

corridor. Nice walk...

 Panorama di Firenze. Picture was taken from the roof of the

hostel, where we stayed the first night. Our flight landed around 7 

so we didn't have much time in there.

 The magnificent Il Duomo. It's the highest building in Florence and I gotta

admit that this picture doesn't bring justice to it's beauty.

 Pictures from Ponte Vecchio to both directions.

 And of course when you're on holiday you must have even one obligatory tourist picture. :) This one is also from Ponte Vecchio, even at 9pm it was crowded with tourists.
My mom could have been a local, because of her nearly perfect italian, but me and my camera....not really.

So we spent the first night in Florence and next morning headed to Lucca by train. But more about Lucca in the next post :)

Love
  Anniina

Always the tone of surprise.

Yesterday was a good day - first I was at Granny's and then I spend the whole evening with Annika.
I love to be at my Granny's because there's always good food and good company with bad jokes. We always play card with my Grandpa or watch sports together. I really know nothing better. So I spend half of my holiday there.
Later Annika came to us and we made some pizza and listened to Michael Bublé. Later we watched a movie and ended up discussing about the fact that which character is more important to the movie Moody or Lupin. Of course we all know the answer (Lupin!) she just couldn't believe it. :) I think we'll never agree about that but we had fun! Anyway, done with the nonsense, here are some photos from yesterday. (Because it's too late to say today...)

 My grandpa made us smoked salmon. It was too good...

My granny has an awesome garden with such a lovely flowers.

 She looks surprised, our pizza ended up being good. It wasn't a surprise, 

wasn't it?

Trust yourself and others will too.

Love
     Anniina