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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Wandering on the Streets of Verona

First day of Italy has passed already. When we came home we went to the center of Verona which was on the way, we went there for a lunch and coffee.

This was actually the first time that I had proper photos of Verona, since when I came here for the first time about one year ago, I even didn't take my camera with me, so I have only some not that great quality photos on my phone

I love all the small alleys, small boutiques and squares full of small kind of markets where you can find all kind of food and some useful things, but also they are selling lots of rubbish you don't need to even waste your money.













If you are interested about Italy, especially of Verona there is actually one really nice movie made several years ago, if you haven't seen yet, Letters to Juliet. In the movie you can see pretty well around Verona. Some of the places of the scenes are cleaned for the movie, but otherwise it is how everything actually is in Verona. In my opinion the movie is worth of watching, i really liked it


Thursday, December 24, 2015

Christmas Eve's Chocolate Mug Cake

This year I'm spending my Christmas eve little different way than how I would be spending it in Finland, in other words I'm not celebrating Christmas this year at all.

Couple months ago I found amazing little book I wanted to buy and I actually did buy it, but after that I never had any time to try the little recipes of the book. The name of the book is Mug Cakes and it is full of cake recipes that you are suppose to bake in microwave and in a mug.
I found out that the recipes are so easy and quick to do! I will definitely do them another time!
The only thing I didn't like was the mess afterwards, but I can't blame anyone else than me

Also if you can see there is the recipe for this little cute mug cake on one of the photos, but in case it is not so easy to read for all, I will also write it at the end of the post







1 Slice of butter (1cm cube or 30g) 
1 egg 
4 tablespoons of very fine sugar 
6 table spoons of all purpose flour 
3 tablespoons of cocoa powder 
1/2 teaspoons of baking powder 
1 tablespoon of single cream
2 tablespoons of chocolate chips 
2 tablespoons of crunchy hazelnut spread

So first step is to melt the butter in the microwave about 20 seconds. 
Then in the mug beat the egg and add all the dry ingredients, mix well before you add the next ingredient. In the end mix well together with the butter. Bake in the microwave for 5 minutes in 800W 




Wednesday, December 23, 2015

It's Nearly Here...

...Christmas!  I have to admit that I don't feel like christmas at all. One reason can be that I'm working on a christmas day and I really don't have too many christmas decoration at home. Earlier today I did buy two mini christmas trees to have at least a little christmas feeling.
Also I made porridge for breakfast.




Otherwise I haven't done any christmas present shopping yet, well I still got time...one more day. Sometimes it is great that here in Uk we celebrate christmas on 25th of December, one more day to have time to buy some presents

For tomorrow I do have two presents to open, one from my dad and stepmom and one from my sister and her partner. Finally I get to open them! they gave it to me early December so I had a long time to wait to open them, since they said I must wait until christmas

Today was really lovely day, I wish the weather will keep going like this and it would be as sunny as last christmas also this year, even though it really doesn't matter, since I dont' need to walk to work







Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Breakfast by a Fireplace

The day how I planned was to wake up early, have a hot shower, prepare a breakfast, go outside for a morning walk in a sunny weather, study a bit and then take my camera and going around taking random photos and eventually to go to meet my friend. This is how I imagined my day to be...

The reality was, I woke up first time at 4am, I started to watch Dont tell the bride  and after two episodes I fell asleep again and woke up at 11 am. After that I had a cold shower since there was no hot water left after my flatmates had a shower before. Also my breakfast ended up to be only a cup of cappuccino in front of a fire place. We went to another coffee shop which is near my home and I never been there before and it ended up to be really lovely coffee shop, I will definitely go there again. 




Later on I did meet my friend in the center, we headed to a tea shop to have a cup of tea and to have a chat, since it's been while since we have seen last time. And yes I ended up again back to the lego train and this time I was able to take a photo while there was the steam coming out from the chimney, I love that train, for me and thousands of other children it is amazing!




Thursday, December 17, 2015

Yesterdays Hullabaloo

The plan was to go to Winter Wonderland in Hyde park, but unfortunately it was raining all the afternoon, so we pushed away that idea. We decided to do something much better, at least more delicious, we went to Holborn to My Dutch pancake house. The pancakes are amazing there, I chose one with blueberries, strawberries, maple syrup and whipped cream.


After the pancake house we went to Covent garden and to Urban decay shop, I'm happy I was totally out of money, so I couldn't have buy anything from there. But we did find something pretty great in Covent garden, a christmas train with lights and made of legos. When you get on the train, there is a button you are able to press and you can see  smoke coming out from the chimney, how cool is that!


We also did go to Sommerset House too, I love the christmas tree there and it is so christmasy there. I really like it and now for the christmas they did Fortnum & Mason shop inside Somerset house. One of my favorite tea shop in London. 






When it becomes to Christmas, I'm pretty much like a Grinch. Christmas is not my favorite holiday, actually I dont like Christmas at all, but I have to admit that this year London looks really nice with all the christmas lights and decorations. 
I really need to start thinking christmas presents! I don't have any idea what to buy...