Summer always brings adventures, bigger or smaller. Either it is a trip to the seaside with friends, or walking the dog.
Here are a few shots I took during my holidays. I have purchaced a used 35mm 2.0 canon lens and most shots were taken with it. I also began my 100 days challenge on tookapic, which I am doing up to this day.
We arrived to Vienna at 4:40 AM after a night in the coach. It was so surreal, my friend and I got out of the vechicle, sat on the platform... and giggled from the tiredness. We had to wait until the metro was working, then headed straight to our hostel to drop our luggage. We could not check in until 2 PM so... despite being really tired we went to the city centre to sightsee. We were in the heart of Vienna around 8 AM, the streets were empty, barely any tourists on sight. Thanks to that we had an opportunity of seeing the Cathedral and vicinity of the Hofburg (palace) in the most peaceful scenery imaginable.
Ah, Florence! The last stop on our Tuscan tour. We couldn't miss it, as it is an unquestionable must-see for every architecture student out there. Homeship of the renaissance, Bruneleschi, right?
However our stay at Florence was very short, it lasted only approximately 5 hours, as we were on our way back after Volterra workshops had ended and had a bus to Vienna from Florence in the afternoon. I have visited Florence before with my parents when I was 16 years old and had no idea what should I appreciate most. It was good to refresh some old experiences and add some more knowledge to them. Now, let me show you how much of Florence have we seen in less than 5 hours.
During the workshops we got a sunday off, so we decided to go to the seaside. Our tutor who knows Tuscany very well gave us a hint to visit the small town of Populonia. It is located on the western coast of Italy, on a very high hill that gives a breathtaking view on the coastline.
We rented a car and in a group of 5 people drove through charming tuscan landscapes up to Populonia. I was taking pictures from the window of the car, the shots are random but yet satysfying.
After three days of intensive sightseeing we finally departured from Pisa and headed on to Volterra, where we were about to have the most important part of our Italian experience - international design workshops with american architecture students.
The third day of our Italian tour we went to Lucca. It was merely 30 minutes by train, and for architecture student it was a gem. Most importantly - it was heavily fortificated in the middle ages and the fortifications are brilliantly preserved. When you hop off the train at the station you approach the old town in a couple of minutes and you have to climp through it's solid high walls.
24 / architecture student / illustrator and cartoon artist / amateur photographer / piano enthusiast / dog lover / fuelled by coffee / short and blonde / vagabond.
