Hello beautiful readers,
How many Fringe bikini’s did
you see this summer?! If you don’t include the Facebook advertisings haha.
I hope you all have/had a
wonderful vacation and got a beautiful tan.
Well I had! Now I’m already
home for more than two weeks.
This post will be about
(little) things that makes you happy:
Flowers, smiling people,
start saying yes, spontaneous actions, the sun, the shimmering in the water
I will tell something about my vacation as well, because I can’t let it.
First I really need to share these beautiful pics I found.
Right above is a garden in the Japanese city Kitakyushu. Right beneath are
cherry blossoms along Meguro River, Nakameguro, Tokyo. Mother nature is
beautiful <3
I planned a surf holiday in
Zarautz. It’s half an hour from San Sebastian, which is the surf capital of
Spain. After
a 17 hour bus ride with stinky Belgium guys behind us we arrived at the
Surfblend camp. HOT the weather was!
Three nights out, visiting
San Sebastian and Bilbao, having a nice bicyle ride, three days surf lessons
and lots of walking and great food during the week. Walking on slippers as
well, ouchh from the beginning.
You can really have a good
night out in Zarautz, 0,5l cocktails for 5 euro and a beer for 1 euro! Also the
lights on the boulevard are beautiful by night.
Bilbao wasn’t that special,
it’s the capital of Basque country, but it was National First Vacation Day or
someting so all shops were closed and there isn’t that much history about the
city we found. Ofcourse you need to eat some tapas and chocolate churros in
Spain as well, really delicious!
Such a great experience. It was my first time on a surfplank, but it wasn’t
as difficult as I thought. First time standing on it, such a great
feeling J
Oh and a tip : do not smear yourself with sun oil before.. Only if you need more challenge.
The sun makes us feel so
happy and what I can really enjoy is the shimmering in the sea. Can look at it
for hours. After the shimmering there was another little village called
Getaria, we went there by bike. You can rent bicycles in Zarautz for 12 euros
for 4 hours. Getaria is a really nice and small village. What we noticed first
was the smell of fish. Fish was freshly grilled outside the restaurant.
Well I came home on 28th of
June, Sunday.
Yeah and now a good story. Monday
I texted a good friend to ask if he still wanted to go on cycling holiday with
me. I didn’t really mind that I was exhausted, but I really was. He still wanted
to! Saying
YES on more questions can be something which will change your life. Watch the
movie Yes Man for more information. So mondayevening we booked our boottickets
and hotel near Londen in a place called Ilford.
But we made it and that is
all that counts.
People tell me I’m insane,
but believe me everyone can do this. Just don’t think and do! If you go for it
and through everything you make it, well that feeling is just addicting. Wednesday
we went from Harwich to London. 6 and an half hour on a bike, google maps said…
But with the wind in front, biking through (little) villages as Colchester,
Braintree and Chelmsford we were on our bikes for 12 hours! 135 km in total.
The most kilometres I ever made on one day! Insane I do agree. I was thinking:
why the hell am I doing this!? The last 15 kilometres every minute. My Achilles
tendons hurt really bad and I was changing my ass’position every 5 minutes to
feel a bit comfortable, which didn’t help at all ofcourse. Sometimes we needed
to ask the right direction because we didn’t had a map or something, and a
funny fact is that (English) people constantly tell you that it’s a long long
way from where we were at that moment, but they are very friendly and helpful.
My body was really broken,
after that week Spain and I had a cold as well. But I kept telling myself: if
your body tells you to stop, your mind is only half way left. You can make it
as far as you want. However it was hard. But when you’re about to quit, remember why you
started. And pain is nothing compared to
what it feels like to quit.
But we survived and after
having a not so nice dinner we noticed we only could have a cold shower,
brrrrr. Little note: I went to sleep with the song: you gonna keep your head
up!!!!
Ilford is a overdue city, not
very special.
Thursday, first LONDON
DAYYYY! Seen so much and walked our leggs off:
London eye, Tower of London,
Tower bridge, Big Ben, House of Parliaments, Oxford street, Leicester square,
Trafalgar square, Piccadilly circus, Buckingham palace, Hamleys, The shard,
City hall, Victoria Station, Knightsbridge, Harrods (big big department store
where I bought some bonbons and tea for 10 pounds, where we touched new fake
snow, where I saw the most beautiful dresses from top designers and where I
hold an incredible realistic baby born) and Westminster Abbey. So just in case
you wanna visit London, these are must-sees haha.
Friday, last day LONDON! Not as hot as the day
before. Little children playing in the
water at the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert museum, really made me smile.
Also the squirrels in High Park who ate walnuts out of my hand were cute. This
day we planned to see the rest: Saint Pauls cathedral, Milennium bridge, London
Bridge Experience where I got hurt by a chainsaw. LBE is number one’s scariest
attraction in London, well it was! Mennnnn.. Borough Market, The Monument,
Southwark cathedral, Kings Cross, Kensington Gardens are must-sees too and at
the Leadenhall market you can have a great dinner a friend of mine told me and
you can!
After cramming our stuff into
our panniers again we made up for our trip back to Harwich on Saturday. Well we
did this in 6 hours, 3 hours too early to check in. Better too early than too
late right. Wind in the back helped a lot and we drove on the left side of the
A12 highway… This highway is one straight line from Harwich to London. Scary it
was sometimes! Especially honking drivers.
Lovely hot shower on the
Stenaline boat and it has tasty muffins as well. Yeahhh my addiction for muffins, ice creams, mcflurrys,
stroopwafels and tea got fulfilled this summer.
I also went to Loveland with
my boyfriend and great people. On techno partys as these I really feel the love. When
you smile to someone, he/she will smile back. Happiness inside you’ll feel J
I hope we get the opportunity to enjoy the sun once again on the
beach ! Ofcourse everyone wants to be called ‘tanned’ at school, work and university when normal life gets started again.
Lots of love ,
XOXOX Kirsten
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