Tenth anniversary

Today.

FYI

Writing two different blogs doesn't seem to work the way I thought it would so I'm "moving" back to my original tiskiblogi. From today on you'll find most of my posts there translated, just as I used to do.
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Be the most welcome!

xoxo, Prefecta

Weekend

Drinking Cortado from my Mom's old Arabia-cups.

Never seen this temperature in this thermometer before.

My old Pierre retired, we probably just call this one Hoover.

Salad, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, strawberries, raspberry vinaigrette, mandarin and provencal olive oils, sun flower seeds, salt, Domyati cheese, mushrooms fried with butter

It's warm!

Heavy rain yesterday around here but not quite. I did get wet though riding my bike to the mall and back. I was sweating like a hippo. In this outfit I felt like even the shorts are too much. Inside we have 29°C. Feels like being abroad.

Awards

I have a blog award (here you can find out how it begun) I'd love to give to Princess Caro, who's such a sunshiny personality that her energy flows here all the way from Middle Europe! Thank you so much Caro! 

I require no confessions, but I do hope she has equally wonderful sources of joy and inspiration. And by all means, she can pass it on as well.

Hair

I'm going to the hairdresser's 21st this month and could really use some ideas. 

Or perhaps not, since she's never let me down even if I've given her total freedom. 

Here are some of my old styles. I do like the short one, but the problem is it won't be short for long. And we live 200 km apart. My hair grows almost 2 cm a month (that's about 0.8 in). That's fast.

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I love...

 My balcony & Wallander books 

My hometown

That's my home over there

...blue skies...

Vanilla ice cream with salted peanuts

Barcelona, el Born

I cannot imagine a troip to Spain without garlic shrimps:

Yes, it was a gourmet trip, breakfast at the hotel, noon coffee, afternoon tapas and dinner in the evening. 

A few years ago we hat an apartment in El Born, which is a part of the old town. We would have loved to stay there, but of course it was taken. You can figure out why by looking at some pictures here.

Here are the most innovative and delicious tapas in Born. The place is called Bubo and it's located next to the Santa Maria del Mar church, which by the way is being built in the famous novel Cathedral of the Sea. It's a beautiful church, we finally saw it from the inside, too.  

We had tomato mozzarella salad and caesar salad plus croquettes and a bikini, the toast which normally doesn't look so beautiful and taste just amazing. This was filled with mushroom paste which was seasoned with truffle oil. I once bought a bottle of it in Italy. It was awful so I threw it away. Now I believe that I just should have used it in teeny tiny drops.

Bubo also has an amazing bakery -beware of the images, they're just TOO delicious!

And then to Mercat de Santa Caterina:

Octopus:

I could live in a place where you can pick up the ingredients for a dinner like this...

So there's also a shop which sells olive oils etc (the bottles in the picture) but when we were heading there to do some shopping, they were closing doors for siesta. So we continued to Pl. de Olles and bought basil and provencal flavored oils as always and these delicious fruit pulp vinegars.

And a couple of outfits, of course: these tops are actually just two silk scarves.

Restaurant Noti in Barcelona

Heavenly food in Noti restaurant, the very best dinner ever!

Strawberry gaspacho for starters, then Thee duck and for dessert red berries with blueberry sherbet and sour cream. Hub had duck salad, tartar steak and creme brulé.

Dress from DVF. (Sorry about the poor quality of some photos. It was really dark in there.)

Barcelona museums

We've been to a lot of museums in Barcelona before but for some reason never in Museu Tèxtil i d’Indumentària. It wasn't located where it used to be, so we checked out another exhibition first. These are printed, I mean really, printed.  

And then the actual place of interest with dresses from the 16th to the 21st century, Dior, Paco Rabanne and Cristobal Balenciaga (himself) to mention a few:

And my greekish le sac. I definitely need another one, shorter.

I also had to buy a new pair of sandals, it clearly was a mistake to leave home with just one pair. The selection was boooooring, but I manged to make a really good and comfortable choice.