OMM: roof with a view
First in a series: on the rooftop of the magical OMM hotel, in Barcelona, as guests of my best friend from childhood, Sheila, and her husband, Steven Fein (my boyfriend and I introduced them when we...
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Yesterday, hanging around with my husband in cold London town, I felt - out of the blue - like pulling out old photos of a brief trip to Barcelona, without my husband, like five or six years ago....
View ArticleOMM: apples & oranges
More fun with photography on the roof of the OMM hotel, Barcelona. Third in a series.
View Articleskin deep
There's a childhood story that stayed with me, the story of Stone Soup. If you don't know the story, here it is. I have always been fascinated by that concept: that together, we can create.. magic....
View Articlein my life: venetian pool
It was the year the Beatles first came to America, and they had just been to Miami for the first time. For those lads from Liverpool, I've seen the shots of them in the warm sea, and I know they'd not...
View Articlemagic water
When I was a young girl, in awe of something (I was awe struck a lot - still am, actually) and I'd say to my dad, wow, it's Magic. And he - an early childhood science education professor, who wrote...
View Articlesomething tells me we're not in kansas anymore
We're off to Italy! Ischia, actually. With camera. So setting this in advance, hopefully when you see it, we'll already be there. Really into the concept of travelling light, not checking any...
View Articlehotel paradiso
We have found, simply put, the best holiday in the world. Two words: Hotel Vittorio. On Ischia, the Italian island near Capri (but better, less touristy), Hotel Vittorio sits on the most private end...
View Articleroom with a view
It's the strangest feeling.. we're back home in London (a lovely city, don't get me wrong) but I feel like our ghosts are still haunting room 205, at the Hotel Vittorio (on Maronti Beach, Ischia, as...
View Articlejuxtaposition: vesuvius
Juxtaposition: the ferry ride to Ischia, with Mount Vesuvius, and the rock formations, born of volcanoes, on Maronti Beach in Ischia, at our lovely Hotel Vittorio.
View Articletwo mexicos
One old (James Taylor), one newer (The Staves). Both nice. Shot at Hotel Vittorio, as before.
View Articlelet there be light
What a wonderful world. After a few idyllic days in the English countryside, swimming in the most magic heated outdoor pool of a beautiful friend, who is very private (I wish I could show you the...
View Articlegolden slumbers
A kind of sweet irony: my theme for today's post was photos of Ischia bathed in golden light - because after all, that's all that summer holidays come down to, the cool blue of water, the warmth of...
View Articlesea of tranquility: dinner party
It is my belief that anything done well in this world is a balancing act. It's like magic: someone, an individual or a team, are working very hard to make it look effortless. And nowhere is that more...
View Articlelost in translation: trainer trending
Do you care how you look when you exercise? That's how it started out: a lovely girl named Sophie wrote to ask me. She was thinking about the fuss the media (i.e., the FEMALE media: boys have other...
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