My week of discoveries

Well well...my posts on the blog have been scarce in the last period or so...First i was travelling to Australia, so i had little time to update the blog. When you travel you do not have much time and much chance to get online...no matter how much you try to stick to it!
I have been now back in Amsterdam for 3 weeks and I have been in the process of " getting over my jet lag, moving all my stuff into boxes, moving out of my old place, finding a new place and  rehearsing for my band's upcoming gig THIS SATURDAY (check link for event and COME JOIN and CHEER). "
Plus lots of things are cooking, including more travelling...because i really cannot get enough.
Then, as if I was not busy enough and in full change of life...last week i got the flu so i was literally in bed for 5 full days and I am still slowly recovering.
So for the past week i have been taking care of my health, using natural remedies and some ayurvedic recipes. I am staying at this friend of mine who is studying Ayurveda at the moment and therefore she was preparing some ayurvedic dinners,syrups and herb teas for me.
Two things i will never forget how powerfully healthy and incredibly common: garlic and onion.
Then I had lots of eucaliptus tea and honey.
My 2013 in general has started healthy. I have not made any New Year's resolutions but I just did...actions!
I quit smoking cigarettes ( already i was only a seldom smoker, bad habit i got 4years ago by living with my ex-boyfriend, never before had I smoked!), i started a routine of daily running ( until i got sick last week...so I have not stopped until I' am fully recovered) and started to meditate daily again, even if just 10minutes.
I plan on increasing the time spent on meditating. I feel so many benefits.

Brief thought of the night

A brief thought of the night, where my sight has laid just before going to sleep : The journey is really about seeking the peace within the chaos.
Back from my month in Australia i feel like leaving for new trips again. Still recharging from the tiredness of heat/intense rhithm and jetlg!

Holiday in Australia, first 2weeks

So little time and so much running around, backpacking with huge bags, playing guitar on the beach, avoiding blue bottles jellyfishes, meeting locals, checking kangoroos, admiring surfers, complaining on the high price of alcohol and cigarettes...BUSY BUSY BUSY! But i think i could live in Australia,
this experience is making me so happy and enriching me...here are some pics of the last 2weeks!

 Me feeding Kangaroos in a Farm near Newcastle, in New South Wales

Spent Sunday in the famous Bondi Beach, lots of surfers..weather was weird: rainy,sunny and then a wonderful rainbow appeared!

I'll come back soon with more stories of my adventures and more pictures

Countdown minus 10

So the countdown has started and in 10 days I will fly to Australia, a trip I have been wanting to do for more than 10 years....oh yes! I can't wait to see everything, trying all the exotic food, hearing the Aussie accents, having breakfast with vegemite on toast, hearing good rock music on the radio ( because Silverchair is one of my favourite bands)and tanning smelling the ocean!
So much to do, i booked one month but i may extend it depending on how good i feel there :-)
My trip will start with Sydney, then I'll go North towards Nimbin. At the end i want to go south to the Blue Mountains or Melbourne. And then a last week ik Sydney.
I am planning to do a charity event for the charity based in Amsterdam that I work with.
But we are still in the planning phase....UHOH!
I have created a little project for Australia, basically I will start to do Vidlogs of what happened during the day or the week...depending on my schedule!
I have already signed up for one jam session/open stage in Sydney, so that's gonna be exciting!
But the exciting hasn't finished because next week Tuesday night I'm going to have a gig with my band and this is the poster of the event, going now. I'm off to rehearsals

Emergenti italiani puntata 1

Post in Italian, special project:

Emergenti Italiani puntata 1

COSA:

Ogni giovedi sera, su radio cicada su stads FM ad Amsterdam conduco una trasmissione su band emergenti del Mediterraneo. Promuovo canzoni italiane, spagnole, greche, portoghesi e della Serbia e Erzegovina.
La trasmissione inizia alle 21 e puo'essere seguita in streaming tramite questo link, direttamente sul sito web della radio Salto FM. Il link apre un player dove e'possibile selezionare giorno della settimana e orario. E'semplicissimo!


CHI SONO IO:


Una cantautrice emergente anche io, ho lavorato per diversi anni come speaker radiofonica e ho deciso di creare uno spazio online di incontro e discussione degli emergenti italiani.

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8 weeks offline

Hello worldwideweb,
i just pusblished a post that I wrote circa 7 weeks ago and since then, I have been in the midst of moving to a new apartment and not having the internet for a while.
So lot's of packing and of course waiting  for the installation which took a while.
I have it has been refreshing not to be online for a while, being more present,and stopping the rhythm like this.
I learnt  to be more time-efficient when being online because i only had available a couple of hours a day. Incredible how much our life is related to this machine of information and data. Incredible how we are so entangled to it.
Maybe we get re-wired as well and start leading our life as a net, the same way the web works.
But this period of  "offliness-ness"( i love to make up words) made me start to do a lot more things such as a band to play with, that kind of came without too much searching for it. But it came.
We are maybe complete and we had a great 1st show last Saturday at a party house, called Badhuis, an old public bath! Superb building, with old arcades and original mirrors and tiles. 10 performers for this party and we managed to close it just before the midnight with a cover of i shot the sheriff by Eric Clapton, The Who with Can't explain and my original song Not afraid, which was kind of improvised because the drummer had never heard the song and we had never rehearsed it with him.
So it actually went SUPER well and I was full of adrenalin for many hours later.
And this is a very blurred picture of the FUN night:

The party was in a street called Nirwana, which in itself i thought was charming!

My week of discoveries

Tuesday night i went to see live the Scottish band The View and they were superb performers! great energy there, I am glad i saw them 'cos i really got a lot of inspiration.
They were playing at Melkweg.