Remembering Prague

Working and studying in part time for almost 2 year has been quite demanding! But the reward is coming!! we are 3 months away from our wedding and a well deserved time off!!

My personal therapy to keep focus and move forward is to revisit our travel albums :)

This week I was getting inspired with the trip we did in July 2009 to the amazing city of Prague! which I simply loved!! and its the country of my favorite artist Mucha :)


The famous Astronomical Clock,




statues in the famous Charles Bridge,



Apparently touching the statue is a Prague ritual, It is supposed to bring good luck and to ensure that you return to Prague soon.



The impressive St. Vitus Cathedral,


Amazing Mucha's stained glass window inside the St. Vitus Cathedral,


Mucha's paintings in the Prague's Municipal House,




Prague is an amazing city!!

Prague is a beautiful city without any doubt! plus there is a lot of really nice jazz clubs :)
We stayed at the Hotel William which has a very particular decor :) kind of princess style ehhehe but it was pretty good, close to the Charles bridge and had a pretty nice price :)

Ahh Sun! Where are you?

It has been a couple of weeks with out Sun :( So I had to cheer myself up! that was easy just looking at the pictures we took while in Stockholm in the Summer :)))

believe it or not it was 30 degrees there!!! :) without any doubt July is the best month to visit Sweden!

everyone was out enjoying the sun and having picnics!

even the dogs where needing a swim,


relaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,


a nice afternoon in Gamla Stan, Stockholm,


this is the place where we had those yummy desserts and with music,


walking along the river,


ahhh nothing like a good summer day!!!


cannot wait for spring to come!!

There is no place like your favorite childhood place

I've lived my childhood in Lisbon right in the center of the city. I have no complains! the city has treated me well. But when you are a child you kind of prefer to be able to run around with no constrains, which is not so compatible with living in a city.

When summer arrived I knew what that meant :) going on holidays to a little country town in Galicia, Spain.

This year I had the opportunity to go back there for Christmas :)


the view from the hill looks like a painting,

Don't even get me started in the amazing food we had there :) cooked by my Aunt,


yes! the massive octopus!! after being prepared,


I can just say super duper yummy! Everything was cooked on this antique,

After all this I could just jump of happiness!

Cologne's Christmas Market Food!

Cologne's Christmas Markets are with out any doubt one of the best in Europe! But what is really amazing in the snacks/drinks you can find there :)

To start nothing better then a warm Gluewine (hot wine with spices)


with some amazing potato dumplings with herbs and cream!


being in Germany is mandatory to have this amazing snack in the pic below,

or,


another typical snack is fried potato with apple sauce,



other yummy snacks!


plenty of yummy sweets,



handmade candy,




gingerbread cookies :)


Is a true food feast!

Let's Sail away

In the end of August we did our first sailing trip the great Capitan Matthias! We departed from the Roompot Marina in the Netherlands,

our super nice ride, Pandora!


the sleeping chambers,


for dinner some amazing Zealand mussels, this was for two people btw :)


preparing the trip for the next day,


Rise and shine!!!


the boats impressive GPS,


Start rolling the sail and lets go in direction to Zierikzee!!


the view!

moving the sail every time we wanted to change direction was hard work, but manageable! Sailing is definitely a good workout!

the boats that get the mussels,


and some pretty ancient boats well recovered,


time to get some energy back!


we arrive to Zierikzee and there seems to be a celebration going on :)


some kind of mussels related celebration,


interesting new way of kayaking :)


time to rest for the next day!


a sample video of our next day sailing :)