Dear friends,

We are currently roaming the big wide world (yay!) and will be on leave from Jun 17 - Aug 14. Your enquiries are still very welcome and important to us however we would ask that your first point of contact be via email to info@tealilyphotography.com. I will endeavour to get back to you as soon as I can and thank you in advance for your patience in hearing back from us.

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See you on the flipside, xx!

From Tuscany to Milan, countryside to cityscape and I remember very little about the place save for adding a leather jacket to my suitcase....so there's no real Milan photos to show you here.

Arrived at Madrid in the super crazy 35 degree heat and was a little worried at the dominance of sunlight and department stores until we stumbled across PHE09 beginning with an Annie Liebovitz collection right outside our hostel. Turns out these exhibitions, big and small, are scattered throughout Madrid city and so today has been a bit of a treasure hunt, with scores of contributions from photographers all over the world, from around the 1930s to the present day. Definitely a very welcome escape from the heat, we've had our eyes opened to the lives of the ordinary and the not so ordinary, from mere existence, to technical masterpieces all in the name of art and the business of storytelling. It makes you wonder what makes a good photo, or whether that doesn't really matter all that much in the greater scheme of things.

Lonely Planet described it as "soul-aching countryside" and I can't argue with that. I might have a bit to say about this dreary weather but such is the way travelling is and we make the best of what we can. We are currently staying in a little (no actually, large) self-catering farmhouse in Vistarenni closeby to Radda in Chianti, Tuscany's wine country.

While it bucketed down in Florence we picked up some groceries and planned to cook ourselves a nice little dinner on our first night here. We started off with cheese and crackers, some Chianti Classico vino, porcini zuppa for starters...and then accidentally fell asleep as the sky turned a deep blue against the backdrop of MJ on repeat on MTV. This morning we woke lazily to threatening clouds but decided to head out anyway. Joel had actually packed a picnic blanket all the way from Sydney for our dreamy little country-side picnic on the Tuscan hills but sadly it didn't get to come out for the occassion. Instead we drove (on the right wrong-side of the road) and toured around the region and made our way to the little town of Siena and had some awesome spaghetti carbonara, osso bucco, and home-made tiramisu in one of those tucked-away restaurants.

Been roaming Rome for the past couple of days and my legs are begging me to stop walking! It's truly summer here and the crowds are out anywhere and everywhere soaking up the rays, indulging in pizza and gelato, and taking in the sights. It's been a bit of a whirlwind two days and we're off to Florence tomorrow on an early train so I really should sleep soon but thought I'd leave you with a few piccies...