Bari - capoluogo della Puglia

Ciao ragazzi,

On Saturday I came back from Italy. It has been really hard for me because I love Italy so much. I wish to stay longer but I couldn´t. For me it´s like a second home. When I´m in Italy, I always feel happy. Thank God there are cheap flights from Prague to Italy with Wizz Air.

So, first I´ve decided to spend few days in Bari and around with my friend Petra (my Erasmus friend from Barcelona). After that my plan was to visit my Italian friends in Porto Recanati where I was working as a babysitter 5 years ago.

So, what can I say about Bari? First of all I should explain what "capoluogo" means. It means that Bari is a capital city of the region Puglia which is located in South of Italy.

My experience:

- Bari is kind of jungle. All guys look at you and have some comments about you or just watch you as they have never seen a woman before.

- The airport in Bari is very good. You can get to the city centre in less then 15 minutes by train.

- Bari centrale (Bari main train station) is a bit difficult to understand. There are different train companies, the tickets are sold in different places... Trains are always late.

- The park in front of train station seems a bit dangerous. In fact there was one guy who followed me and Petra for couple of minutes- maybe 1 hour.

- Bari is a good starting point for traveling around.

What you can find here:
- old town
- new town
- harbour
- beach
- castle

How Bari looks like
This is University in Bari. It´s like 2 minutes from train station and located in the park. Every time I walked around, I´ve seen Carabinieri (cops) in front of building.

This is main street in New part of Bari. It´s full of shops. I really enjoyed shopping in Bari.

This is our favourite place - Bacio di Latte. Every morning we had a breakfast here. I don´t like cappuccino but I have to admit that in Italy it´s really good.

There are palm trees everywhere and I love it.

Our accommodation was very close to this castle.

Castello Svevo

This is my favourite view - in front of the castle.

It was very hot. Around 35 - 40 degree, maybe.

This is where old town begins. This square is really beautiful. In fact the whole old part of Bari is beautiful.

Local churches in old town.

Typical small streets which I love.

The harbour here is very nice. I´ve felt much safer than in new town.

The way from the city centre to the beach.

And here we go. Local beach is acceptable. 

The only problem was that the day when Petra and I wanted to swim, we couldn´t do that due to strong wind.

But I´m happy anyway.

We decided to go from the beach back to the city centre different way. Not along the coast but inside the local streets. First I didn´t feel so much safe but later I was happy that we decided to go.

We found this beautiful church.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, this is my favourite shop in Bari. Love at first sight. If I could, I would buy half of the clothes in this shop. I always support local designers. I´ve bought 2 skirts and 1 dress for my ceremony- graduation.

As you probably already know, I love Italian food. This is a starter- cozze (mussels).

And then my favourite spaghetti alla vongole (clams).

Finally one photo of me and Petra (the only one). Unfortunately she doesn´t like taking photos as much as I do.

And that´s it. So, what do you think about Bari? Do you wanna visit this place? I think that even though it´s not my favourite city I will be back because I fall in love with Seventh Heaven shop and also because like I said at the beginning, Bari is a good starting point for making trips around. And there are still some places I wanna go.

Ciao, ci vediamo dopo

The end of my student life

Hi guys,

Let me introduce myself first. My name is Ing. Michaela Pešková, BA (Hons). I´ve just finished my Master programme at university (faculty of Economics). It means that my student life after so many years is over. At the moment I still don´t realize what happened. I´m so happy that I don´t have to study any more. On the other hand, no more Erasmus, spending summers abroad etc. Well, everything has to end one day. One door is closing, another one is opening...

with my friend Ing. Káťa

You probably noticed my lucky jacket above. I always wear it for the most important exams. Here you can see my lucky pens, borrowed necklace from mum (for luck) and a ring which was a gift for my school-leaving examination.

I´m done with studying.

You need to relax a bit while you´re studying hard for final state exams.

3 birthday parties in one week, 2 weeks before exams

Cinema time: Avengers, 1 week and half before exams

Theatre time: My Fair Lady, 3 days before exams

What would I do without my biggest helpers? Every single day they have been studying with me.

Ing. Ferďásek

Ing. Miky

Ing. Adélka

I can finally go for a coffee with my friends. I have a life again :-)

my favourite Caffe Latte in Potrefená Husa

Now it´s time to celebrate.

Miami cocktail

It´s also time for my traditional shopping after exams. I´ve bought for myself this watch by DKNY.

I have to say that these 6 years have been one of the best in my life. Why? I´ve met so many amazing people, made new friendships, traveling, partying, new experience, studying hard during exam period etc.. I don´t regret a single moment.

I´d like to thank you guys for being part of my amazing student life. I will never forget.

Also, thank you for all those wishes and support. It really means a lot to me. I´m very lucky to have such a good friends and family.

Back in time- Croatia and Netherlands 2012

Hi guys,

I am studying hard for my final state exams at university. It means that at the moment nothing special is going on in my life.  I can´t wait these exams and my university will be over.

This summer it will be already three years since I came back from England. As you know I travel a lot. Let me tell you now how I spent my summer in 2012.

My family gave me some money ( as a reward) for passing the final state exams (my bachelor´s degree). So, I decided to spend them the best way I know- for traveling.

The list of countries I visited in 2012: 
- Austria
- Croatia
- Netherlands
- I do not count the time in England (1 year)

Croatia

I went to Croatia with 3 friends of mine (Katka, Jirka, Andreas). I like spending holiday with my friends, why not? You have so much fun and it is also cheaper...

Dress-H&M, sunglasses-M&S

T-shirt-Atmosphere, jeans-H&M, bag-Dakine, watches-present from SFS intec

blouse-New Yorker, earings-klenoty Aurum, skirt-gift from Prague

hood- Sam 73, shorts- F&F

autumn day in Croatia

My holiday in the island Brac (in Croatia) was amazing. We visited really lots of places. The best way how to do that is to have a car. I definitelly recommend this place, if you have a chance just go. We went there during the september so some days were really warm that you could swim in the sea but there were like 2 days when it was cold and I had to wear autumn jacket as you can see on the photo above.

Netherlands

After like 2 days I came back from Croatia, I took my friend from university (Lucka) and we went together to Amsterdam and Zaanse Schans. Yes, I do like traveling :-)

Zaanse Schans-amazing place, recommend it

Zaanse Schans- me and Lucka

Amsterdam

You can guess what I am about to do with money from my family for passing (in case I pass) following final state exams. Yes, I will use it for traveling again. Last time I went to the U.S. (Economic final state exam last year). This time I will go to my lovely Italy.

My final state exam is going to be on Monday 15.06.
- 7:20 - 8:00: preparation time
- 8:00 - 8:40: exam
- 12:00 - 12:10: announcing the results

Wish me luck, please. I´m going to need it.

See you later

Casteldaccia as a small town with beach and castle

Ciao ragazzi,

this is the last article about Sicily. I´ve showed you all places I had a chance to visit during my Erasmus project. 

Why Casteldaccia?

Well, as I´ve told you already I´m starting to prefere smaller towns over the big ones. Mostly for the atmosphere and the thing that there not so many tourists. I wanted to visit Casteldaccia also because it´s a seaside little town and not so far from Palermo.

My experience:

- one annoying guy

- 4 times almost hit by a car (the way from the beach to the castel is not very comfortable by walk)

What you can find here:

- nice square

- castle

- beach

I´m arriving to Casteldaccia by train. Trains in Sicily are generally not very realiable (always delay etc..). Although this time I didn´t have any problems.

There it is. Local castle. I´ve never seen a castel like this before and have to admit that I like it very much. Unfortunately I couldn´t go inside because it was closed for some reason.

A photo with local guy can´t miss. This is a very good place for relax.

Honestly, I think this square is really beautiful.

Generally I don´t like selfies so much but when I travel I really want to be on few photos at least.

And now let´s go to the beach. This is very nice walk along the beach.

One guy actually offered me to take a photo. Although he did bother me for the rest of my stay there. So, it wasn´t such a good bargain, was it? :-)

I could sit here all day long...

perfect location of bench

perfect view

During these months the beaches are very dirty as you can see. However that guy told me that now they are about to clean it for summer time.

And one last photo of me. I love spending time on the beach.

This little town is really nice. I´m very happy that I´ve decided to come here. There are no tourists, no people who would bother you (except for one guy) and you can relax on the beach. What else do I need? :-)

Next article is going to be about how I spend my holiday financed by reward - money, for my final state exams 3 years ago and what I´m planning to do with the same reward this year (this month actually). 

Ciao