Category: jul
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From the page dedicated to Stockholm Photography Gallery
Julmarknad i Gamla Stan It was during one of my first visits to Stockholm that I had the pleasure to enjoy a beautiful walk in the lovely mesmerising Christmas market in Gamla Stan. I won’t tell the reader about the cosy Christmas atmosphere you can feel in the air. You’ve got to experience it. So,…
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Short pastry and season fruit to start this first December week
Grey sky upon the first weekend of Advent. In these days, leaves are turning yellow and golden and, slowly, light as delicate petals, they are falling from the trees. On the other hand, it was gorgeous time for starting to decor with warm lights and green balsamic fragranced branches of Abies. Besides, there was a…
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Fragrances of chocolate to start 2021
Christmas season is at the end with religious celebrations on this January 6th 2021 and, in Italy, children love in particular way this holiday and wait with great enthusiasm and wonder for the arrival of “la befana”, a folkloristic character of the ancient tales, that is an old lady flying on a magic besom to…
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Christmas, Tolkien and a warm cup of creamy zabaione
Merry Christmas, everybody! It is time to sit by the fireplace, in good company of a beautiful book written by J.R.R. Tolkien and posthumously published for the first time in 1976, “The Father Christmas Letters”, while enjoying the pleasure of tasting a warm creamy zabaglione prepared with a hint of Armagnac, a sprinkle of cocoa…
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First Sunday of Advent in the kitchen
Here we are, Christmas is knocking at the door again and we already know it will be a very special season for all of us. Even though it won’t be often possible to behave as usual, that is expressing our love by hugging members of family and loved ones, we wish all of them to…
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