moving the blog

hi everyone. in order to keep my blog alive I'm moving to wordpress.
the blog is being restyled, it will de very clear and minimal. I have
already completed the process of moving all the databases to the new
host, and all the posts and comments are at their place. this is just
to inform you that I will keep this blog posted with the headers of
the new posts I will send on wordpress, but I am dismissing it after
summer. the link to the new-old blog is:
http://ombrenelcielo.wordpress.com
http://ombrenelcielo.wordpress.com
http://ombrenelcielo.wordpress.com

I am very glad...

...to inform you my blog is not jet dead! some weeks ago I've recived
an iPhone and started to use it for web browsing and stuff because I
am still out of telephone line and internet connection since this
january when I moved in the new apartment with my parent. lately I've
rediscovered a feature of blogspot which allows to post blogs through
a simple email so I am now back for some seriose posting.
I am in the middle of a painful university test session and hopefully
whan this week will be over I finally will manage to have some free
time to do my thing and first of all to sleep. I will never ever try
to study for five exams in the same week, it's just insane.
but being back here is also due to positive thing happening to me and
Polly: her Project Recollection is in exposition till april the 19th
during the "fuori salone" happening here in milan, I am so glad she
managed to get an opportunity like this (:

friends (:

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I had to blog more about Athens, but with all the University things and because I am still out of a true broadband connection I couldn’t make it till now.
I was so glad to spend so much time with Amanda and Emma and also Polly of course, and I keep missing them a lot.
I had also to warn you not to watch Alice in Wonderland because it’s a waste of time and it is not what you expect from a director like Tim Burton.

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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

alice in wonderland

This evening we are finally going to watch Alice in Wonderland, as seen by Tim Burton. I don’t know if this version is going to be any good, because it’s so hyped, but since we are those guys who tend not to judge-before-experiencing-anything we are going to watch it, and after that we will, eventually, critic it.
We are going to watch it in a cinema in the centre of Athens with Amanda and Emma. I hope it will be a good movie since we are waiting for it since June when we saw in Helsinki some ads.

greek cheesecake.

we are baking a cheesecake here, and having good times together (:

athens

so we are here and we are having some fun (:

thanks amanda and emma!!

29th of February

I wanted to thank you all.

I'll add some more stuff here as soon as I get my mac working fully.

but I wanted to thank you all for being so nice yesterday evening and during last year.

I am really happy having you as friends and you Polly <3


here you can find some of the precious cards inside Polly's happy birthday letter.
more to come soon!

Oulu

one of the cities I love most in the world.

stuff 2010

yesterday I came back home very late like past midnight and I parked my vespa in the garage. I've spotted my old record player laying in a corner of the garage. it was an akai just like this one:

it stopped working a couple of years ago because the motor drive and the belt gave up and it's not worth to repair them.

I am not that much into turntable technology, I am not a technician, but I know that there are some good ones and some bad ones. so I am planning to do some research and maybe make an investment and buy one someday sooner or later.
I will clearly look for Technics ones or maybe another akai.





it depends how much money I will have because me and Polly are planning to do some travelling and travelling has the priority for me (:
we are planning to go to visit many places around europe in next months.

athens




istanbul




barcelona




and of course helsinki many times

this year I hope we will have the time to do the travelling we want (:

helsingin rautatieasema

I've found some interesing pictures of the Helsinki Railway Station which I am glad to post here. I like this being theforst blogpost of '10 and I hope I will spend more time in Helsinki then in any other city as soon as possible.
I've visited Helsinki last summer with Polly. We spent two weeks living in Malminkartano which is a quartell of the north outbounds of Helsinki, you can get there with the LR trains running from the Central Railway Station. You can reach basically every place in Helsinki and every city of Finland from the station.
I am missing very much the city, I loved it while we were staying there, there are so many reasons of me being so sentimntal towards Helsinki. But I bet everyone can share my feelings if visits the city.

The station is used by approximately 200,000 passengers per day, making it Finland's most-visited building.
The main maintenance area for the Finnish Railways is located at Pasila, the first station out of Helsinki Central. The old steam locomotive roundhouse facility to the south of Pasila station still stands and is used for sundry functions. This roundhouse facility is pretty impressive to see and me and Polly were so happy that something so peculiar is still being used and kept alive nowadays.

The first railway station in Helsinki was built in 1860, as Finland's first railway between Helsinki and Hämeenlinna was opened.
It was desinged by the Swedish architect Carl Albert Edelfelt.


Soon the station turned out to be too small. A contest was organised in 1904 with the intention of producing plans for a new station. It was won by Eliel Saarinen. The new design was finished in 1909 and the station was opened in 1919.





I love this place <3

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