Month: augustus 2015

WILLYWOOD

Shirt: David Valls / shorts: Monki / shoes: birkenstock / sunnies: Prada / bag: Micheal Kors

Location: Willywood Curacao

I simply love this, the pictures, the sign in general. It remindes me of the Hollywood sign (obviously) I saw last year, but sadly couldn’t get so close to.
Yes, this blogposts means I am back in the Netherlands, home, for now at least. It’s stating to look like I’ll be moving in Januari…. How i feel about this? Mmm although I’ll have to miss my friends, moving to a island in the caribieën does sound appealing. It opens this entire new chapter I never thaught of possible. Well, nothing is for sure yet, so I’ll just end that here.

Today is a sort of outfit post, kind of randomly, I had planned all these outfits and didn’t end up taking pictures of one of them. It just wasn’t on my mind. This outfit is simple, but kinda describes me, simple black & white and a pop of pink, I match the flamingo’s, haha. Gotta love those fluffy pink birds.

If I don’t upload i miss it, and I feel like there is so much I want to write to you guys about. School is about to start, but that would be the last thing on my mind, ugh. Well what more to say, just a little update. I’ll make a few other posts soon, I wrote them back in Curacao but didn’t wanted to upload them without pictures, so they’ll be up soon. They are more personal, tho, a new categorie I’ll call “inspiration” so stay tuned!

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BCN DIARY DAY4, + MORE

Hi! Welcome to my barcelona diary, i’ll wright about what i did the 4th day of my trip, and a little of the days following.

Today we got a chance to visit Casa Mila, another one of Gaudi’s creations. This tour was very different from the other house, and although i preffered the other one more, this house was yet again really beautiful!

After Casa Mila we went to have lunch at Flax & Kale, such a nice hotspot! Definetely a recommendation! Flax & Kale sell’s juices from Teresas juicery, (which very much reminded me of the pressed juicery ones. (you see them everywhere on tumblr) which i bought in America last year. And also gluten free, organic and vegeterian (they do have fish) food. Really nice!

After lunch we wondered around the narrow streets behind La Ramblas, and gave a visit to Casa Guell, my dad just wanted to stop by to take a photo, but when we saw there was no line ( wich is truly rare, be prepared, haha). we decided, why not give this place a visit aswel. Casa Guell is yet again designed by Gaudi, so we kinda had a Gaudi tour 2.0 today. Lot’s of architecture! All the houses are very different, and it was nice to see this one, beautiful again. though i wouldn’t necceserly recommened it, since this house was my least favourite of all the Gaudi stuff i’ve seen these past days.

We went to have a drink on the Placa Reial i really love this place, the houses and palmtrees are so lovely, i can sit here for ages! It’s practically surrounded by restaurants, so where you go doesn’t make a huge difference, especially not if you, like us, just come to sit and have a drink. We had one at ‘Ocaña’ since this place looked the most appealing to me. I liked the bold letters.

We had dinner at Bar Lobo, i found this place on pinterest, and had planned it for a lunchspot for the next day, but on friday we would be going to Montserrat, and we weren’t sure if we would make it. So we just had dinner here! It isn’t a very local dinner place, since it closes at 10pm, but they had some amazing tapas! The second best i had so far (Bar del pla, day 1 was my fave). I can recommend you the tuna with quacomole, fried eggplants with honey and the fried asperges. Really special and really good!

That was all for my official last day in the city barcelona itself, at day 5 we rent a car and drove to Montesserat, spend the day hiking and looking around.

The following days, (i went 9days) we drove through cities and villages close to Barcelona, for exemple we went to Andorra (tax free shopping) and Vic (really lovely city) but in general just exploring the surroundings. Here you’ll have a few photo’s about these last days.

( best ice cream ever, dark chocolate orange, can we have dark chocolate in holland aswell, please?)

I didn’t wanted to get into detail to much, since I am a little behind time schedule and cause I am currently in Curaçao, i’ll wright about this soon aswell! I hope you enjoyed this little serie, or maybe got a bit of inspiration out of it.

Thanks for reading, and i’ll get back to you soon!

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BCN diary day3: from the mountain to the sea.

Hi everyone!

Welcome to my Barcelona diary.

This morning we took the underground to Museum d’art, where also the magic fountain is. We walked up the stairs, to get a beautiful view of the city, it was really nice, and so was the magic fountain aswel! Although we didn’t see it at night.

After viewing the city from above, we went to the park close by, we walked further up the mountain, where you have yet again wonderful views!

At this point we were high in the mountains, and we found one other BCN tourist attraction. And so, we went from the top of the rock to Barceloneta, also known as the beach!

Once in Barceloneta it was around lunchtime, we ate at one of those beach lunchspots, and i had a tuna salad and ‘detox’ smoothie. It was pretty good, but as usual at beach restaurants, overpriced and noisy though.

After lunch we stumbled over the boulevard at the beach. It was extremely hot and i was dying to take a swim, but the beach was crazy crouwded and laying in the hot sand between sweaty tourists didn’t look very atractive, though it would have been nice to take a swim or have one beach day, it’s a lot more relaxed! So we adventually went back to the centure of the city. We also came across a park with an amazing fountain.

We ate at Parellada we had a really delicous dinner, just really good quality food and a very lovely place to sit. Also when you finished the first dish, it takes about less then 5minutes before they already bring you your next dish. For this place definetely make a reservation, good thing is; you can make it at the day itself. We went here at 19:00, but the place was closed and would open at 20:30, so we made a reservation for 20:30. Quite late to have dinner, but once you’re in the city you’ll notice that everybody eat’s around 10pm, and with the hot weather this isn’t always too bad.

After dinner we headed back to our hotel, to enjoy a bit of wifi and fall asleep.
That was all for today, untill next time!

Colour block

Skirt: zara/ blouse: Cos/ shoes: vans/ sunglasses: Prada/ bag: micheal kors/ watch: daniel wellington/ bracelets: shashi

Hi Loves!
This (read: €13) pencil skirt, is my life, i love it so much. It’s really nice body flattering and just a simple trow on, which still makes you look chic.

Especially in combination with this blouse. Somehow i found myself matching the colourful-mosaic designs from gaudi today. But ohwell, this top is great for hot weather, since the fabric is silk and nature-fabrics usually don’t make you feel so sweaty. I really like this combination. What do you think?

Speak to you soon!

Xoxo Sophia

Read all about what i did this day on my latest posts: BCN diary day2: gaudi tour.

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BCN Diary day 2: Gaudi Tour

Hi Loves! Today day 2, of my short trip to Barcelona.

This morning i enjoyed breakfast in my hotel, we woke up early cause we had tickets for park Guell at 9:30. The park was really gorgeous, a must-see if you come to Barcelona.

After Parc Guell we went to casa Battol, you get an Audio-tour with a tablet which shows a visual house that comes to life, really cool. Also a very beautiful house.

After visiting two of Gaudi’s works, we went to have lunch. I found a place called Brunch & Cake, and so we went here and had a really delicious lunch! This is the kind of place i would visit all the time if i was a citizen of Barcelona. I had a Mango and chicken salad with the complete vitamine smoothie.

We also planned to go to Casa Mila today, but we weren’t going to make it, since we had tickets for Sagrada Familia at 5 o’clock. So after luch we took the underground and made our way to the extremly crouded but suprisingly beautiful catherdral. I can’t even imagine how this church will look when it’s completely finished. I can understand the hype!

For dinner we ate at Intertapas, the tapas was good, but not really impressive. We didn’t really know where to eat, and my phone who contained a list of restaurants was dead. So we found this place which was close to Sagrada Famillia.
TIP: make a reservation for your tickets at both Park Guell, Sagrada famillia and Casa Battol, the waiting lines are enormous and it’s definetly not fun to stand for a hour in this heat. (i know so, we had to wait for casa barttol.)
That was all for today, untill next time!

XoxoSophia

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Easy breezy & icy blue

Dress: weekday/ bag: micheal kors/ sunglasses: prada/ shoes: vans/ watch: daniel wellington/ bracelets: shasi
Right before my trip, i was looking for a very summery dress, that i would be able to just throw over my head, and step in to some 30 degree weather with. I found this dress at weekday, and felt like it fitted my need. When i just came out of the plane i changed into this easy throw-on. I love the icy blue colour of it, which i think somehow looks really good in combination with my ‘watermelon pink’ bag. What do you think?