The other side of the Atlantic

la chiesa

Please note: More photos to come & I also have some videos that I intend to post as soon as I find a way of uploading it here.

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La festa

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St Anton

I'm back with some photos!

I have to say that it's been really difficult to write here. We didn't particularly have a good year last year but it's getting better & last week my husband & I went to Austria to enjoy one of our favorite sports.

Enjoy the pix below!

hope you enjoy it!

I'll soon post some videos too, so check out this link: http://videolog.click21.com.br/videolog/vdl_index.php?user=aiello

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photos of New Year's eve

I know it's almost February, but here we go, some nice pix of a nice eve!

baci ;)

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happy new year!

It’s about time I came here with some news…

The photos from the previous post where from a little holiday in Mallorca in the beginning of December 05.

The food was prepared by me & the cats where from the resort but I fell in love with them & would love to bring them home.

We had a great time between Christmas & New Year. I will post some photos soon. No big news lately, other then back to work & working hard!

See you soon!

Baci,

Me!

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Eating in Mallorca...

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mallorca pix

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A Welsh weekend

So long since I wrote here that I feel the need to clear the dust off this place!

The truth is I feel all I’ve been doing lately is to drink. Perhaps I am turning English or perhaps I am turning alcoholic, dunno.

The fact is that this weekend I finally did something interesting & felt like coming here to report!

I take you know that I belong to a mountaineering club and last weekend I visited the club hut in Snowdon, North Wales and participated on a navigation course.

On Saturday we did some walking around while learning how to use compass, pace, time & navigation. We also did an evening navigation exercise which turned out to be quite fun.

On Sunday we climbed the Y Garn @ 946m. Lou & I descended while the rest of the group went for the Foel Goch @831m.

I finish this with a big thank you to Stephen & Steve who organised the meet & thanks to all who went on it for the lovely time. Below I leave some of my favorite shots.

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Friday Eve in the Hut & morning Nav

Lou, the head chef of Friday Eve

The hut & the moon

Navigation exercise - Point 379 - SH652566

... and we found the lake!

that's before I fell into a stream.

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Saturday Navigation lunch & Afternoon

Food!

and more food!

Jon, my navigation partner just after 470m SH644566

Me on same location.

Note the Lake where we had lunch in the background.

time to go to the pub!

(err... time to prepare for night navigation)

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Sunday walk

Warming up

A party taking a different route

at the Y Garn - 946m

And Jon just arriving

On my way back to the hut

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tanti auguri per noi

Hello all,

Had a crazy busy week & no much time to post (great excuse, hey!!!) been to the gym and cycled in the rain (I’m getting good at this!!!).

Friday I went for diner with my husband and a couple of friends. Had a nice churrasco steak (serious, the word churrasco was in the menu, so that’s why I chose it). I have to say, it was more like a really good steak “na chapa” then a “churrasco”, but it was really good & I’d recommend! Though… it was south of the river & we know many people simply will not cross the river… little do they enjoy!!!

Saturday I was presented with a really nice bouquet of flowers in preparation for our Sunday anniversary. I love my husband!!! I’ve photographed it so I might post a pix during the week. Then we went to the rugby match. Though GB Lost to NZ & I was upset I had a great time. I managed to understand the game, suffer like I always suffered for my fluminense football team, I shouted it was great, I loved it!

Sunday – today – is our 1^st wedding anniversary and we went for lunch at the Locanda Locatelli, which happens to be the best Italian and the best restaurant award winner for 2005. As lovers of good food, Kevin & I had to go & check it out… it was… worth the awards! I had to starve for a week in order to enjoy an antipasti of escalops (hubby had the same), for pasta I had gnocchi di tartufi neri while Kevin has something like Ox tortelonni. And for main he had veal with polenta e fungi porcini while I had monkfish… hummm… nice Sicilian (house) wine, and biscotti di amaretto (like those we have in Sicilia). I’m lucky I have a husband who knows where to take me for lunch!!! We had a great time & a great 1^st anniversary. Hopefully there are many other happy ones to come!

To finish this post I thought I'd post a pix from last year. Enjoy!

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tricolor de coracao

Hey guys!

Remember I mentioned I went playing squash last week???

Well, days before I think I kind of pulled a muscle in my leg at the gym. Squash made it worse, or perhaps it actually made me realise what had happened. But then I got better and then I went swimming & I managed to pull the muscle again when getting off the pool. How great!

This is all to be able to tell you that I took the bus today. I was unable to cycle. It doesn’t hurt that much, but the weather is cold & I feel my leg can do with the resting.

Waiting for the bus I have noticed a really well dressed lady, one of those we all envy. This was until I saw it… she had a tag!!! Don’t know about you, right, but something that really winds me up is to see tags on people’s shoes. So errr…

Had a nice weekend. Friday I went for drinks at (my now becoming regular) gay bar in Soho. Saturday went for more drinks (this time I drank only one cause I was driving) with friends in Kings Road. Cooked feijoada (Brazilian national dish, like a bean stew) for a friend I visited on Sunday. She just had a baby, so I thought she could do with it. That reminds me, I still haven’t eaten mine!

Grandma is moving to her new house this week, that makes me sooo happy that I could fly to the house warming they’re having. Instead I am sending her a box full of English goods (tea, mars bars, digestive biscuits & a cake). And also I bought some flowers on line, which will be delivered this Friday.

I’m finishing this with a pix of mine taken at home with that football shirt I mentioned a couple of posts back.

Cool, that’s it from me.

Baci,

Ann

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public transport? no thanks!

Though my bike is my main transport, sometimes I do take the public transport. Yesterday I took the bus home. As it’s starting to get cold, in a packed bus, I could smell that stuffy air which is rather unpleasant & reminds me of how nice it is to be able to cycle.

This morning I had a meeting at 10 AM. I left home just before 9 and thought I’d take the tube just to be on the safest side. This journey should take me 20 minutes, but getting to the station I learned that the Northern line is not working and I had to walk back towards the bus station and wait for an empty bus. Lucky it wasn’t raining hard but I got to work at 10:15.

Tonight I’m on my own and in charge of the remote control. Thought I’d watch one of those programmes which psychologist analyse badly behaved children. I was shocked to learn that a kid had started smoking at the age of 4. Can one imagine that? Times like that make me realise how lucky I am.

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London

I love this city and what it has to offer. I am lucky to work so central and to be near remarcable places.

Took those pix last week, after work, when Onno & I went for a walk towards Waterloo Bridge, passing by British Museum.

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