2025 year | Working title

The passing of time feels different for everyone. 2025 was filled with fragments of time I choose to preserve and journeys I continue to relive. Movement through both new and familiar cities that left their mark, in 10 countries in total. Work unfolded into new challenges, and somewhere between that and travels, I found joy in writing here and conducting 7 interviews for CreativeMornings / Berlin—a privilege to listen, ask questions, and spend time with creatives and core team members.

A I D AJanuary 1, 2026January 12, 20266 Comments

ART, Austria, Events, Vienna

From Vienna with Music

It’s music o’clock in Vienna — the capital of elegant balls, classical music, waltz dancing and traditional coffee houses. It’s fascinating to think that “The Blue Danube” and more of the world’s most important and celebrated classical music was composed here, during the time when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Beethoven, Gustav Mahler and Johann Strauss called Vienna home.

A I D AMay 30, 2025June 23, 2025Leave a comment

Berlin, Events

2024 puzzle

Thoughts from the road (literally), looking back at lessons and highlights of 2024 from sports and corporate work, family and travel, the ups and downs. A year that felt like a pilgrimage in 9 countries. With both cities and nature as inspiration in an extension of a complex life.

A I D ADecember 31, 2024September 30, 20255 Comments

Events, Germany, Postcard

Hello, Adele in Munich

You look like a movie. You sound like a song.

Every summer does not look the same. This one had also a memorable concert in Bavaria, at the arena at Messe München, a custom-built stadium with around 75,000-seat for the German residency of Adele.

A I D ASeptember 30, 2024July 28, 2025Leave a comment

Events, Germany, Romania

Year in Review – 2023

For my retrospective, is not always easy to put in a few paragraphs the results of a year’s work and of personal milestones, of travels, planned events or unexpected moments.

Writing small notes and travel diaries helped me to reflect, remember details of this year, or to hold feelings in my body. I wrote and worked, traveled and volunteered to open my eyes more and grow.

A I D ADecember 31, 2023January 22, 20252 Comments

Belgium, Events, Germany, Romania

2022 Wanderlust Diary

Memories, emotions and also less happy events from 2022 unfold in my mind. I browse through all to remember the sunset in Portugal, a reunion in Sweden, days in nature and time spend on a Greek island.

I traveled more than I expected. I remember spring days in Brussels and nights in Berlin. The midsummer light in Paris after work and the streets of Vienna before German classes.

A I D ADecember 31, 2022December 31, 20243 Comments

ART, Austria, Events, Vienna

Wiener Melange & Klimt

Baroque splendor, Wiener melange as coffee of choice, Gustav Klimt and landmarks in golden Vienna around which I built some of my days. Plus hours with no plan when I just wandered the Viennese streets in a private experience.

A I D AOctober 15, 2022June 2, 20253 Comments

ART, Berlin, Events, Germany

Berliner Philharmonie

There is joy in discovering the musical diversity in Berlin, a city with no shortage of events, from clasical to techno. In concert buildings with stunning architecture and acoustics. This January I finally attended a concert at Philharmonie. Later, during Schubert Week at Pierre Boulez Saal, the conductor Thomas Hampson wished us to enjoy the music, because after all, we are in Berlin, one of the most incredible cities in the world.

A I D AJanuary 30, 2022January 5, 20251 Comment

Food, Spain

Tapas for lunch, flamenco for dinner

Madrid days started with traditional churros with hot chocolate and strong coffee (cortado) at Chocolaterías San Ginés, like a Madrileño, had sunshine & tapas for lunch, and ended with ‘tinto de verano’ drink, reminding me of the summer I thought was over, with flamenco guitar in the background.

A I D ANovember 9, 2021July 9, 20245 Comments

Journal, United Kingdom

Destination: London

In an early Friday morning I am at the Brussels Midi train station, about to board the Eurostar and go to London for an extended weekend. My first time traveling with the Eurostar train. And I am looking around, listening to people speak French or English with a superb accent, thinking how lucky I am and how cool is Europe!

A I D AOctober 14, 2020June 1, 20243 Comments

ART, Berlin, Events, Germany

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Berlin has “Unter den Linden” and the central historical boulevard feels as an old postcard. The name comes from the linden trees that lined the boulevard. From the Brandenburg Gate until the Museum Island and Berliner Dom, passing by the Komische Oper, Neue Wache, Bebelplatz, Staatsoper, and soon, Humboldt Forum (reconstructed Berlin Palace).

A I D ASeptember 25, 2020July 11, 20231 Comment

Journal, Norway, Postcard

Oslo Opera House

From different cities there are moments, people and places that stay with us. When I think of Oslo, I remember first the Opera House. I never saw till this day a more impressive modern Opera. I haven’t been to Sydney yet, and the Copenhagen Opera is also contemporary. But I dare to say this one in Oslo is one of a kind.

A I D ASeptember 20, 2020August 4, 2024Leave a comment

Croatia, Journal, Photography

Dubrovnik. Postcards from the past

Remembering summer days in the Dalmatian coast. Sunset on a isolated Saint Jakub beach, Croatian wines between the walls of Dubrovnik on Stradun, piano concert during the Summer festival, sightseeing, red-brick roofs and turquoise water, swimming in the Adriatic Sea, trips to Srd mountain and to a natural reserve that is the Island of Lokrum.

A I D ASeptember 1, 2020April 19, 2023Leave a comment

Journal, Photography, Spain

Spain ~ Gaudí ~ Barcelona

No place like home, except the seaside. Si. Difficult to say what I liked more in Barcelona – sangria on our first night, the flavors of paella, Boqueria market, the Mediterranean, the concert at Palau Sant Jordi, strong coffee on Passeig de Gracia while admiring the Gaudí architecture and being called “señiorita”.

A I D AApril 19, 2020April 15, 20256 Comments

Berlin, Events, Germany

Konzerthaus Berlin

The Berlin Concert House (Konzerthaus) is located in Mitte, at the historic beautiful square Gendarmenmarkt and is flanked in perfect symmetry by the French Cathedral (Französischer Dom) and the German Cathedral (Deutscher Dom).

A I D AFebruary 14, 2020March 26, 20244 Comments

City Guide, Events, Italy, Journal

Memories – “AIDA” in Verona

Even though Verona is known for tragical Romeo & Juliet of Shakespeare, what I remember from that holiday are pumpkin ravioli, pecorino cheese, tiramisu, lake Garda, stunning architecture and opera. Yes, Italian opera! Is so easy to keep finding reasons to return to Italy, right?!

A I D AJanuary 13, 2020January 11, 20253 Comments

Austria, Christmas, Journal, Vienna

Before Christmas in Vienna

In a December morning before Christmas in 2017 I was drinking my coffee at Café Demel, where it smells phenomenal (Kohlmarkt 14, 1010 Wien). The Christmas atmosphere compliments the charm of the city. It was unexpectedly lovely, but I’ll take it.

Continue reading “Before Christmas in Vienna”

A I D ADecember 24, 2019June 2, 20255 Comments