Venice

I spent 48 hours in Venice just before Christmas, a surprise trip for my birthday. Highlights included an essential Cicchetti taste test washed down with white wine across the city, uncountable shrines to various saints, the Grand Canal at Night and standing on the sun drenched but freezing cold balcony of St Marks Basilica. SO much fun.

The Family

Just watched Godfather 1 and 2 pretty much back to back. What have I been doing all this time?! Endless inspiration

Sparkling

Loved these tiny shots of sparkling water that came with our espressos - the first of many on a trip to Rome earlier this year

ROME

I first went to Rome on a school trip and loved it instantly. Just back from a fleeting but busy and pizza fuelled trip - the infatuation has bloomed

Hot Weather

 Keeping the heat out in St Marks Square, Venice

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

 

This smashed Watermelon on a road near by my house somehow reminded me of these paintings by 16th Century Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Famous for creating portraits out of natural objects, Arcimboldo's paintings are awe inspiring, if a little unsettling. When I was little my Mum had a postcard of this head made up of sea creatures stuck on her diary

Water, 1566

Vertumnus, 1590

Summer, 1573