tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69957362026-03-25T07:43:51.869+00:00Live in London and travel the world yishyenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16993543529968517326noreply@blogger.comBlogger329125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995736.post-27956234168299955922014-06-01T09:28:00.002+01:002014-06-01T09:28:40.433+01:00

*I wrote this last week but forgot to publish.. Sitting in a beautifully sunny garden in Milan right now.. and about to tell you a story about an afternoon spent in Bordeaux during one of the last days of 2013, in the winter! My best friend from home, Joyce, had come to France spend the Christmas period with her partner Clem, whose family lives in Bordeaux. I joined in for one week. ^This

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It occurred to me the other day that it’s been over two years since I last went to Amsterdam. TWO YEARS!  I plugged into my external hard drive to look at photos I’d accumulated from previous trips there and damn do I miss it. I've been going a bit too mad with my love for Italy (in fact I'm in Milan again in two days hehe) and Portugal and I'd forgotten about my former haunt. So here’s

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AKA  How to Have Too Much Fun / Embarrass Yourself / Go Crazy at a Festival This is way overdue, but BANG here’s my post about my time at Wilderness Festival 2013, held last August in beautiful Charlbury near the Cotswolds. It was a rather last-moment decision to attend (like many of my big life decisions..) and omg it was THE best decision ever! SO here are about 50 photos and

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Porto is one of my 'second homes'. When I'm there (relatively frequently..), I usually rent an apartment for myself via AirBnb.. although I now have a multitude of local friends and who are happy to house me whenever I feel like visiting again. Portuguese hospitality is truly some of the best in the world! However, last September I was able to spend a night at The Gallery Hostel, a super cool

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If there’s a favourite warm-weather drink of mine, it has to be cider! If you know me well enough, you’ll know that during the summer I go a little overboard and spend an obscene amount of time around the parks of the city. I take every possible opportunity (yes, sometimes I slack off from work but shh). I think it’s quite the London thing to sit on the grass with a bottle of cider..  isn’t

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As some of you MAY already know, I have been in South-East Asia for the last four weeks. I've spent most of my time in Malaysia being with my family, whom I see about once a year on average. Earlier, we went to Krabi for a few days to catch some rays (in addition to the millions already caught in Malaysia) and for most of the trip, we stayed in Ao Nang at Emerald Garden Resort. It's not located

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This is a VERY LONG POST - well of course, it’s a whole YEAR painfully compressed into 50 or so photos. Here are some highlights of my 2013.. I hope you enjoy reading about them as much as I had fun reminiscing ;) If you’re not using your mobile, PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS SONG as you go through the post! JUST DO IT ////// It snowed in January and London was beautiful. And when it

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It’s no secret that I love hanging out in onesies. You may remember that I wore my lion onesie to a lavender farm, and wore my fox onesie in Iceland. I also have a Santa one, which I used at last year’s annual London Santacon. And these are just the occasions that I’ve actually written about.. However, when wandering around Shoreditch Boxpark (a pop up mall in East London) last year,

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Tonight, I would like to go back to Greece. In October 2010, I went to Zakynthos/Zante (one of the Greek islands) for a week with some of my fab Australian friends.. sadly I had only written one post about it. You can read about our first day, complete with colourful beach pics here - what’s my blog if it isn’t full of happy pics, right?! One rainy afternoon, Aysha and I rented a

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You guys must be sick of my Portugal posts.. but I’m not, and it’s my blog! SO. Haha. Today I want to share with you a magical evening I was lucky enough to experience whilst in Sagres. As you know, I spent a few days at surf camp (click to read about THAT). On my first day there, I met a girl called Cristina, who was bunking with me. I had my afternoon all planned out - I would chill out

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What could be so scary and daunting about a desert safari that I had to use the word ‘braving’? Nothing really. But I was young and dumb - this trip took place in March 2008! OK perhaps not dumb, but it was intimidating because it was pretty much my first real solo travel experience. And I did it at a time when I was feeling very homesick. I had stopped over in Dubai for a few days en route to

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My third stop in the Algarve after Albufeira and Sagres was Lagos, a little town known for its buzzing nightlife. Despite being rather upset about having to leave surf camp, I was excited to check out my next hostel - Bura Surfhouse - because of how much fun it sounded. I'd heard a lot about its rooftop bar and pool.. parties and BBQs.. At this point I was really starting to enjoy hostelling!

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Today I'm going to share with you one of the highlights of my last trip to Portugal in September - learning to surf with Algarve Surf Camp/School in Sagres! After spending a couple of nights in Albufeira, I took a bus to Lagos. As Albufeira train station is actually located 7km away in another area called Figueiras, it proved more convenient to catch the bus. The journey time was about an hour

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This is my entry into the Travelsupermarket Capture the Colour photo contest! The contest is only its second year running, and I'd been tagged by THREE people.. (Lola, Clare, & Anja), so I figured that I must set aside some time to participate. Also.. this challenge was pretty much MADE FOR ME. I 'capture the colour' every day! I live it! My life is full of colour.. even in my hair.. If

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This is probably one of the 'freshest' posts I'm publishing - i.e. about something that occurred very recently. In fact, only days ago! *pats self on the back* Here's something I wore over the weekend. I was somewhat missing Portuguese food (post-holiday blues) and so went to look for some in South London (Stockwell/Vauxhall). I've had pretty much THE best summer I've ever experienced in

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HI FRIENDS! It's been a while. Earlier this month, I embarked on a two-week solo trip around Portugal. You may notice that I've been to Portugal rather a few times recently - yes, I've totally fallen in love with it! The same way I fell in love with Italy and used to frequent it during the summers past. You'll hear more about my itinerary and activities in my coming posts! I started my trip in

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Apologies for the loooong interval between writing about what happened in Rotterdam and my getting to Canada to attend my first ever TBEX Conference. And actually I'm now not even writing about the manic, stressful way in which I got there, but rather.. about this lovely house I got to stay in and the fab new friends I made as a result! It was my first time visiting Canada. Took this pic as

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I can't count the number of times I've lazed around at a London park this summer.. Thanks to my flexible working hours, I can normally soak up some rays before or after work, by going in late or leaving really early ;) There are two main 'big' toys that I like to take along with me - either my skateboard or my ukulele, which I've been trying to learn/practise more these days. So far I can play

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It took me a long time to compile these photos - I've been really disorganised with managing the pics taken with my iPhone/'real camera' so this was QUITE the task. If you follow my Instagram feed, you'll know that I constantly change my hair colour. Most of the time I have my hair done at the Vidal Sassoon Creative Academy as I'm one of their demonstration models. I love it! William, my

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I'm lucky enough to live close to Regent's Canal, and one of my favourite walks in London is the short one along the canal from Little Venice (near Warwick Avenue) that leads to Camden Market. Really I've only done this walk maybe four times, but I say it like I've done it a bazillion times.. haha! On a sunny day, all the colours - from the canal boats and kitschy decorations - come to LIFE. I

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Hello Friends! I am indeeeed still around. It's a challenge to keep up with this blog stuff when the summer in London has been freaking awesome. I've been living in my bikini and visiting the parks just about every day. Also just got back from Lisbon recently, where I went to attend Optimus Alive and got to see one of my fav bands ever - Vampire Weekend. Life has been more than good and I'm

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// Previous posts on Iceland listed below: Iceland Day 1 - The Blue Lagoon & Sægreiffin  Iceland Day 2 - The Golden Circle Iceland Day 2 - Dog 'Sledding' & Drive to Vik Being a Fox in Iceland Iceland Day 3 - Sólheimajökull Glacier Hike  Iceland Day 3 - Ice Climbing on Sólheimajökull Glacier Iceland - Seeing The Northern Lights!  Iceland Day 4 - Vík Black Sand Beach /

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A quickie post with pics of some things I wore in Rotterdam last month (all of which obviously I no longer possess, haha. if you have no idea what I'm talking about, read this and this). Rotterdam was mostly cold for the end of May, but we did get one warm day. I made a day trip to Kinderdijk to see the windmills as it's a UNESCO World Heritage site. Thanks to the sun, I had the luxury of doing

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*Click here for PART 1 || Also in this series: My First Day at TBU Rotterdam* To recap very briefly, I had my luggage and passport stolen in Rotterdam the day before, and I'd spent the night in the house of a woman I'd barely known and who offered to help. Waking up in Haarlem was a delight. Anja's guest room was comfortable, inviting, and bright! I had these two large windows next to the

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*This is a continuation of my first post about going to Rotterdam to attend TBU Europe.* Fast forward one week - I was on the final day of a post-conference blog/press trip at The Hague (Den Haag in Dutch), ready to return to London full of happy memories and new friends. I had just taken a surfing lesson at the beach - in 10 degrees centigrade weather no less - and was feeling super awesome

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