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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Frequency festival 2012

Hey kings+queens! I know, I know, this post is beyond overdue! In my defense, in the past month I got back to england, moved in my new house and started uni again.

But let's transfer back to August shall we? From the 14th to the 19th I returned to Austria for FREQUENCY FEST!
How to describe those four days? Minus the absolutely disgusting and uncomfortable camping, some of the best four days ever. We met some incredible people (and crashed at their house to shower!) who also got us backstage to meet Erol Alkan, and got through the insane heat and lack of sleep with lots of cocktails, sprinklers, and early morning swims in the river.

We saw some sick bands including The Killers, The Black Keys, Ed Sheeran (all in a row, swoon!), The Cure, The XX, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, The Dandy Warhols, The Hives, Hot Chip, Placebo, Block Party, Lykke Li.. just to give you an idea!

The Killers

The Black Keys

The Hives

Early in september my mum, stepdad and I drove all the way from Rome to England, stopping at Cinque Terre, Genova, Geneva, Lyon, Reims, Paris and London. It was suchhh a cool road trip.

Somewhere in Switzerland

Going back home to Rome for a weekend next week! I've lost a lot of weight, I need my mamma's cooking asap! Look out for amazing food photos with my film camera.

Lots of love,
C x

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Almost summer

Summer has somewhat began and I am lovin' it. I spent the last 10 days in Rome for my mum's and my birthday.
It was goodbye England's stormy 9 degrees C and heellloo 40+ degrees C Rome! I tanned, hung out by the pool, shopped in the center and had ice cream and 'grattachecca' breaks and jaaaa it's finally feeling like summer again! Rome is so fabulous during summer. I think recently moving to England has given me a whole new appreciation for summer, I think I love it even more (if that's even possible!). I took lots of photos on my film camera but we'll have to wait for those.

My stepsister even flew in from Germany and for my mum's birthday we went to Rome's oldest chocolate factory where all dishes (including fish, pasta and seafood!) were cooked in chocolate. Sounds crazy but nom nom nom! I felt like Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that night..
The next day my mum threw a massive party at ours for our birthdays with DJs, bartenders, and so much, so much incredible food. The next day was my birthday and we went to the Sistine chapel (I've actually never been, I'm such a bad Roman!) and went out to eat one of my favourite pastas, cacio e pepe. AND last night was my cousin's birthday who had a party to watch the Italy game with an insane buffet. All in all, bikini bod I am so not ready for you right now.

Meet my stepsister Annika

Post-party morning exhaustion

Oh and I almost forgot! On June 12th my mum surprised me with tickets to Madonna's concert! Let's face it, she was way more excited about this than I was. It was loads of fun though, I taught her the modern 'club dances' such as the fist pump and the stadium was invaded by gay guys who were absolutely fabulous and madly werk'd it during the show. I must admit, that woman is fieee-rce!

Martin Solveig

I'm flying back to England today to do one last exam and move out of my uni halls. From 43° C to 9° C.. sigh.
It's only for four days, Camilla YOU CAN DO IT!

For me summer officially and properly begins on saturday. Has your summer started yet?

Sunday, June 03, 2012

Luminous and wired

After some very upsetting times and quite a bit of drama with my flatmate (we were supposed to go to the Coventry on tuesday), yesterday I ended up going to London to see Coldplay at the Emirates stadium.

Yesterday was one of the best days of my life. As you may already know, I am the ultimate concert junkie and I've been dying to see Coldplay for so long, but I knew this was going to be an entirely different experience.

Because of my last-minute change I got a seating place. At first I was bummed but, turns out, it was actually better that way. I just want to skip to the best part of it all; the glowing wristbands.
Every single one of the 58,000 people in the stadium got a wristband that would light up automatically during the show. There was one moment as they were playing Charlie Brown, when for the first time they turned all the lights off and turned all the bracelets on. Okay, guys, the entire stadium gasped from the beauty of what was in front of us; the pictures don't even explain and the magnificence of the sight is hard to explain in words, but just try to imagine 58,000 coloured lights glowing and moving around in the pitch dark as Coldplay is playing in the background.
I've only cried from beauty twice in my life; once was in 7th grade camp in the Sahara desert where I saw the most incredible sky and the Milky Way, and the second time was last night.
It was so incredibly beautiful! And it was HUGE!

Coldplay didn't just make a marvelous musical show (as they would, with their flawless music!) but they also created an insane visual show with the wristbands, actual fireworks, confetti, balloons, blow up butterflies around the stadium...
There were people of all ages, families with kids, elderly couples, couples of 50 year old friends, all there chanting to The Scientist and Viva La Vida and Fix You (my god, Fix You made me an emotional wreck!) and I found it all touching and super adorable. I jammed and sang along to every single song so loud I'm surprised I still have any voice at all! It's been 24 hours now and I am still freaking out.

The entire 24 hours yesterday were wonderfully perfect, it was such a fun day and I wish I could thank Coldplay for an absolutely unforgettable night.