Barbie – The icon

February 14, 2016TineLife, Travelbarbie, dresses, exhibition, fashion, hotel, italy, milan, museum, travel

Who doesn’t know Barbie? You can have endless discussions about the value of this puppet in kids education – but at least it was, is and will be part of many many childhoods. I only had one Barbie puppet. I was playing outside most of the time and Barbie puppets with their long hair weren’t really made for getting in contact with the „real world“.

But I had a lot of friends with not only one but many, many Barbies and of course they were owning also all the respective accessories as well. Horses, cars, houses, airplanes, camper and…Kens. Just what you need in life to be a happy Barbie.

So when I heard about the Barbie exhibition in Milan I was more than curious to see how you can fill a whole exhibition with the life of this puppet. Well you can and it was quite interesting. Especially to see how Barbie developed during the year. Of course fashion wise but also considering her face expressions and body shape.

More about the exhibition: http://www.mudec.it

At the Fashion Hotel

October 18, 2015TineEvents, Life, Switzerland25hours, autumn, design, designer, fall, fashion, fashion show, hotel, popup, shopping, shops, style, Zurich

Imagine an entire Hotel dedicated to fashion for a weekend. Pop-up stores moving into the Hotel rooms, showers converted to fitting rooms, the reception transformed into a bar and, in the lobby, fashionistas dancing to hip-hop beats.

This is exactly what happens twice a year at the 25hours Hotel in Zurich. So, for the autumn edition of the fashion Hotel, I grabbed my camera and my friend Jagna, and the three of us checked-in at the fashion Hotel for an evening of fashion, drinks, music and of course… shopping.

The evening started off with a small fashion show presenting some nice selections of local designer and shop items just to give you a teaser of what is waiting for you in the shops upstairs.

And truly inspired by that, we started our tour at room number 17 on the first floor. Also other girls were curious about what was waiting behind the different hotel rooms and were sneaking like we did.

In some rooms balloons with vouchers were awaiting us…

In others people just went bananas for all the beautiful things to buy…

The best thing were the transformed bathrooms. Best places for some selfies…

…unless you found one of many professional photographers taking a nice picture of you.

After 3 floors, 75 (!!!) little stores, some shopping and a many photo shootings we felt into the seats in the lobby to relax for a moment and to have a bite. Just to finish of the evening just a few minutes later with some dancing.

Fox hunting in Northern Italy

October 4, 2015TineEvents, LifeBreme, dogs, fox, horses, hound, hunting, italy, jumps, lazy, nature, outside, sunday

What are lazy Sundays good for? Well, in Italy, they are good for fox hunting of course! Every Sunday a fox hunt in Northen Italy.

Hot bubbles in Bagno Vignoni

September 13, 2015info@daiandiamo.netLife, Travelbreakfast, exploring, holiday, hotel, Italian, italy, relaxing, roadtrip, thermal water, traveling, tuscany

32 inhabitants, no supermarket and a lot of hot thermal water. In a nutshell, this sums up the little village of Bagno vignoni, 25 kilometers away from one of the wine capitals in Italy – Montepulciano. But it offers much more than that. And to discover its magic, you need to stay overnight in the village itself.

Zurich – Thailand in 2 hours…

August 28, 2015info@daiandiamo.netLife, Switzerlandcurry, food, popup, restaurant, short trip, street food, tasty, thai, Thailand, yummy, Zurich

I love these restaurants which appears out of nowhere and disappear just days or weeks later. These place are magic, probably because you even more enjoy that place when knowing, that this is definitely the first and last time you will have dinner here.

The yellow dress – Part 01

July 26, 2015info@daiandiamo.netLife

~~Never~~ wear a yellow dress when you have blonde hair.

I loved that dress at first sight but being blonde I didn`t risk a second glance as immediately awful pictures of horrible yellow/blonde combinations came to my mind.
But luckily there was my mum with me and together with two very engaged saleswomen they at least convinced me to try it on. Read more

A perfect day in Istanbul

February 6, 2015info@daiandiamo.netLife, Travel

Mid of May we spent four wonderful days in Istanbul. As soon as you arrive in this pulsating city at the Bosporus you can feel the thirst for action and change of the residents. New shops and restaurants are popping up everywhere. But with becoming an international metropolis the diverse history is never forgotten. This city is the perfect combination of modernity and tradition and every single trip worthwhile… And you need more than one trip to discover this amazing place. Read more