Cupcake Couture, a paradise for cupcake lovers

Today I'll tell you a secret..about what I've just did. It's a sunny but freezing day and I definitely needed calories to go on...and thanks God I know the right address! The name of the shop tells everything - Cupcake Couture - and I come here when I'm happy/sad/ normal..actually when I think I deserve a treat :-)
This small shop is like a paradise for cupcake lovers (like me), it seems to enter in a fairy tale, behind the counter instead of Willy Wonka there's a lovely lady who will help you to choose the cupcakes, and you'll need her because choosing is not so easy, they all look so yummy!
The cupcakes are in different flavors, colorful and have funny and cute decorations. Today I've decided for a vanilla/blueberry one with a light blue frosting, opalescent small sugar balls and a sugar snowman!

They don't just sell cupcakes but also all this candies and sweets I've always seen in cartoons and always wanted!

Ok, since is sunny what I need is just a sunny place where I can take a rest and taste my dessert! Have I've ever told you that the park behind San Lorenzo's Church is one of my favorites? 

I'm proud to introduce to you my sweet snowman :-)

Love at first bite...mhhh...yummy!!!

End of the story and of the cupcake...psst..don't tell anyone, it's a secret!

«Milanesi non si nasce. Si diventa»

Today, in this gray and rainy day so typical for Milan, I want to pay a tribute to one of the most important Italian journalists, Indro Montanelli (Quotes here), who was born in Tuscany but who has been also a real Milanese because as she loved to say "People are not milanese by birth, but they become Milanesi" and I think it's true. I'm not Milanese and I find myself in Montanelli's words, I moved to Milan 11 years ago and in these years I've learned to know this city which at the beginning seemed to me crowded and impersonal. At the beginning was an hard work, similar to the one needed in a wedding, I had my habits and the city had its own, but then when we both learned to know each other, our love raised more and more. Every day is a surprise, Milan needs to be discovered slowly, 

In the following pictures you'll find some of the hidden gems that the city gives only to its true lovers (and to their friends). 

A cat hidden in a palace in Corso Monforte (I won't tell you where...it's a secret!). 

A two-faced lady in the Cappella Portinari. 

The statue of a skinned Apostle in the Duomo

 Indro Montanelli writing on his typewriter in the park he loved and where he used to stroll around