Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2016

Naibalebale village, Viwa Island, Fiji





Viwa is a coral island in the Yasawa Island, Western Fiji. There is only a small resort (11 'bure', for 22 guests) and three villages,  Naibalebale, Yakani and Najia, total population about 500. There are no cars on the island, or roads, only tracks. We visited Naibalebale, at the end of this beautiful long beach. 
Vata's House
The ladies' market, set up for the resort's guests during our visit
The village Bure, really beautiful
Keep both doors open for amazing views
Rebuilt after the cyclone 
Viwa Island School





The highlight of the visit was the local school, the children performed for us to raise money to help repairing the school, damaged after the latest cyclone. A part from the school and the resort five more houses were destroyed by the cyclone, but fortunately there were no casualties.



Children singing and dancing




Photos by Alessandra Zecchini ©

Friday, April 17, 2015

Hiking in Coromandel, New Zealand

 A four day hiking trip in Coromandel with friends


Arriving at Crosbies Hut




Days spent in the bush among bird songs and pretty fungi



Convivial evening with fancy hut cooking and entertaining...


… and everything vegetarian and vegan!




Returning home


Photos by Alessandra Zecchini ©

Saturday, January 10, 2015

First photos from New York



This is my second visit to New York, the first one was over 20 years ago! In fact I still have a photo of me with the Twin Towers in the background, so visiting to the World Trade Centre Site was quite an experience.

The 9/11 Memorial remembers the victims' birthdays by placing a white rose on their names. There are almost 3,000 names, and the victims of the 1993 World Trade Centre Bombing are also remembered here.



It was a cold and cloudy day.


We had a sunny day too (albeit still cold!) perfect to visit the Empire State Building, and the view was great!









Other highlights were the big Xmas tree and skaters at the Rockefeller Centre...


shopping in Saks Fifth Avenue,


visiting the Central Station,


… and discovering my own coffee brand!



I also liked the Xmas decorations in NY, much more subtle that the ones in Los Angeles. 


On the third day it snowed! This is the view from our window, we stayed in a wonderful place in the heart of Manhattan, a convent turned into a guest house, The Leo House. Highly recommended.



The skyscrapers are great, but there are also a lot of lovely 'shorter' buildings around, I liked this cute 'attic' on the right, with the green roof, next to MOMA (which is so good to deserves a post by itself, later on).


Arantxa was feeling at home, I am sure that she would like to live in NY!


This is all for now, I'll talk about the food another time!

Photos by Alessandra Zecchini ©

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