MOVING TO AN ISLAND IN THE CARRIBEAN

Hi babes,

It’s been a while, but then I’d have to say, a lot has been going on. 

Yes, it’s official. 

I am Moving to Curacao, a island in the (dutch) caribean, in South America. Kinda crazy, huh? 

So this is how it all happend: 

Back in the beginning of the year, march something, my mum saw a job opening of a job she really liked to do, in Curaçao. My mum asked us what we thought about it and if she should try to apply. We liked the idea, and my mum aplied for the job, even though we never expected this to truly happen. 

And so as my mum appeared to be a good match for the job, we visited the island to see if we would like to actually move there. (Which we did, obviously). 

My parents always had a dream to work abroad, but they always expected it would be for my dad’s job instead of my mums. 
My dad will continue the job he is currently doing, abroad. He works in the container shipping business, so will see how that goes. 

As for me, I’ll continue the same ‘dutch’ schooling as I am currently doing. (4havo for the dutchies). I’ll go to a private Dutch school since I won’t really be able to graduate in ‘papiamento’ (a spanish/ portugese language they speak there besides dutch) in 1,5 year on a local school. I think this also will make it easier for me to connect with others, since those students come and go all the time. 

What do I think about it? Is a question i get asked often. Well, ofcourse i have ‘double’ feelings, on one hand I’ll have to miss all my friends and Family and everything I am used to, but on the other hand I love different cultures and I think you should get out of your comfort zone every once in a while. I think this would be an amazing life experience for me, which will make me grow as a human, as cliché as that may sound. 

Overall I am excited, my parents will go for 3years but I am free to go back in 1,5years, as soon as I have finished high school. And in those 1,5years I’ll go back to visit holland, and my friends and family will go and visit me there. I think the time will adventually fly by. 
We have already bought a house and are currently busy with the entire moving progress etc. We are expected to move around January 15th. 

So, there you have it. 

I’ll continue blogging ofcourse, I actualy think my blog may get more interesting because of this. But keep an eye on my insta & blog and I’ll keep you updated! 

Speak to you soon! 

XOXO

Sophia 

   
    
    
 

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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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?

Speak to you soon! 

Xoxo Sophia 
Ps: Read all about what i did this day, in my latest posts: BCN diary day1 

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My travel plans | Summer 2015

Hi everyone! 
Long time no see, and i’m so sorry for that! I’m finally done with school and have Summer Holiday, so also a lot more time to make some posts! 
The last time has been really confusing; I might move to Curacao. Yess…. Well i won’t share more about that untill i know if this will actually happen. But because of all this crazyness, this holiday will also be a bit messy. My dad is the kind of type that usually plans a holiday a half year in advance. And so we had plans to go to Peru this year, and later on that even changed to Australia, (which made me extremly happy cause it’s on top of my bucket list). But ever since a job got offerd to my mom, we stopped making plans and kind of waited for more information to the last minute. 

Now finally we have our summer holiday plans together! And i’ll share them with you today, so you’ll know what i’m up too and what you’ll see on my blog really soon! 

Barcelona:

Monday next week, i’ll be leaving for Barcelona really early, for a week. Besides the city we’ll also visit some of the surrounding city’s. And i’m kinda excited since this will be my first time there! Expect to see a lot of outfit shots from Barcelona, the posts i love most! 

  
Curacao:

After we come back from Barcalona, will be in our holiday home in Zeeland (South of the Netherlands) for 2 weeks and after that we’ll leave for Curacao. We decided that whether the moving-plans will happen or not, we’ll pay Curacao a visit. Just to see the island, cause none of us actually ever has.

  

This maybe wasn’t the most exciting blogpost, but i wanted to give you a little update and apologize for the long ‘radio silence’! 

PS: if you have any recommondations for Barcalona or Curacao for me, please do let me know! 🙂 

Speak to you soon! 

XOXO

Sophia