for a sunny and warm summer-like weather
your shades of blue
your hidden architectural jewels
for the promotion of local designers 
Ruta chocolate for my kid’s taste and my taste of dark chocolate
new and renewed partnerships sealed over a good traditional meal of the Lithuanian cuisine, where I am told pork is the default meat. I still managed to find a few vegetarian options for my lent week before Orthodox Easter, and for that I am double grateful.
I love books with stories around the kitchen, where events and Mxican dishes recipes are intertwined with flavours. Reading recipes and cooking steps also makes me hungry, but that’s another story.
The story lone is built around Tita, who is given a multitude of roles throughout the book: she is a daughter, a cook, a lover, a sister, a nurse. The character has to fight for her right to decide how to live an authoritarian mother and a series of circumstances she finds herself in.
The writing style is impregnated with tenderness and a bitter-sweet taste of life in all its magnificence. It has magic, it has love. What else do you need?
I absorbed the book in no time and recommend to enjoy it with a cup of hot chocolate.
What I love about discovering Monaco is that it offers more than meets the eye. The art on street and in public spaces is not scarce in a place of exclusivity. I also love the art in the open on trips with my kid, when patience to visit museums is at its low. And you can continue to enjoy that ice-cream 🙂
Here is a selection of only a few art items on display in Monaco:
Sky mirror, by Anish Kapoor, a British artist
The sculpture “brings” the heaven on earth due to its special lenses. It was a gift by Lily Safra to the Principality. You can find it in front of Monte Carlo Casino.
Adam and Eve, by Fernando Botero, Columbian artist
Botero is known for mixing harmoniously naive primitivism, grotesque, kitch, folklore, Italian renaissance and colonial Barocco. “Adam and Eve” is a 900 kg, 3 meters high sculpture, placed behind the Casino.
Woman smoking a cigarette is another of Botero’s sculptures you can find in The Roses Garden of Fontveille. 
Woman snake, by Mateo Mormar, Croatian artist 
Mormar is a world renown sculpture who lives and Monaco. This sculpture depicts harmony between humans and animals through difference (mind the contrast of lines). The sculpture was created in 2010 and it took 2 years of work.
Hexa Grace, by Vasarely Foundation
It symbolises the sky, sea and land and was installed on the roof of Fairmont in 1979, to delight the visitors eyes.
Last but not least of my favourites, is the Jean-Baptiste le Monégasque bronze sculpture by Rachid Khimoune, French sculptor. You can find it behind the Gremaldi forum. 
One of my favourite in Jardin de Paris – Homage a Lao Tseu by Marino di Teana:
“You will sob little tears of joy” said one review.
The book by Greer, a winner of the Pulitzer prize for fiction, is a story of a writer – Arthur Less, who seeking love almost lost it, just to find it, after he run away to travel around the world. The author gives us a Less at first – from a 70s American bohemian period – to a Less Mexican, Italian, German, French, Moroccan, Indian to Less at Last.
I admired the writing style and the author’s sense of humour, so touching yet unforgiving in some places. Like this lines: “She was ostensibly German speaking, just as seventeen-year-old Less was ostensibly gay. Both had the fantasy; neither had carried it out.”
Love von Beauty von Love 
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