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November, Nuremberg...

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So, it's Novemeber. One is slowly grasping the fact that Christmas is inevitably getting closer and as the air grows cold, I end up remembering last year and a very spontaneuous trip to Nuremberg in Germany. Here's a little Throwback Sunday. The premise of the trip was simple: me doing a course to be a tourist guide + my sister being a teacher overseeing a school trip to Nuremberg and having a free spot on the bus. I thought it would be fun to spy on the guide who would be taking care of us and comparing if they are doing all the necessary things we were being taught at the course :) I will try to keep this short and picture friendly.

Gifts of Nature

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or Townie Goes to the Countryside and Photographs Apples I just got back home from a little trip that made me think about nature...

Music Irregular: Summer Mix 2015

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Autumn begins tomorrow. So I want to get in quickly before it's too late and send the summer off with some music, which, as you have guessed already, I intend to share with you. Given that I've been neglecting you and this blog for so long, today you'll be getting an extra large portion of tunes (and possibly of my unnecesarry ramblings as well). Here are some of my favourite tracks that I've been listening to this summer. Click here if you want to listen/watch all together in a neat YouTube playlist (including a surprise). Starting off with a bit of a cheat, because this song has been begging for my attention on and off all the way throughout the spring. Mainly when it featured (multiple times) on Dancing With the Stars. I am yet to test this at an actual party with other people, but I daresay this song such an upbeat ball of energy that it just pulls you up to the dancefloor! And then you're hit with the painful realization that your feet are not quite

Holiday

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So I went on a holiday. A proper week-long, taking time off my work and going abroad kind of holiday. That was a first! Second time on a sea-side family holiday, but the first one was about 14 year ago. I barely remember anything. All in all, exciting stuff! We went to Croatia and stayed in little town called Šimuni on the island of Pag. I thought I would share a couple of my favourite photos, because... some of them turned out quite well I think. And they demonstrate the peaceful atmosphere very well.

London Extra | Shakespeare's Globe

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For all you lovers of theatre and Shakespeare, here is another travel themed London throwback to when I visited Shakespeare's Globe theatre. It happened on a very sunny Friday, almost exactly a year ago. ou can read about what else I did on that day here .  When I got to the Globe, I wasted no time, went pretty much straight in and got myself a ticket :) I didn’t even mind spending £ 13,50. Since I didn’t get the HT T-shirt the night before , I decided that I deserved a treat. And I knew visiting The Globe would make me happy :) And I deserved that and owed it to myself :)

London Adventure IV.: A Day of Sunshine, Shakespeare, Guitar Boys & Westminster

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As promised in my previous post , here comes the foolish attempt to finish my London stories before the 1 year anniversary of the trip. If you are new here (Hellooo and welcome!) and want to read up more about the London adventure, check out the TRAVEL label. I feel like I need to reiterate that these posts are in no way trying to objecitvely tell you what London is like and what to do when you visit. This is all heavily based on my (very) detailed travel diary, which, as diaries go, is a very subjective account of my personal experience and thoughts. Filtered to be fit for the public eye, obviously. And it's quite long. If the words bore you, look at the photos ;) *timey wimey wheezing noise of the tardis* Day 4: 6th June 2014 (Fri) Waking up, I decided that today seemed like a good day to Globe :) and to South Bank :) I wanted to get going as soon as I could, because the guided tours in The Globe Thetre run only until 12:30 and I had no idea how busy it w

Forgotten Blog Birthday, Life Updates & Challenge

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You know it's badly busy when you forget your own blog's birthday. That was sometime in late March, apparently. I managed  to update the label system though. Yay for that! Let's throw some confetti. Hopefully it should be a bit clearer and easier for you to navigate and find things. I feel like the poor bloggie is practically dying, but to be honest, this time I'm not feeling that guilty for letting it happen. Yes, I would love to post more. I have the ideas. I also have posts that were once almost ready to go up, but they didn't. And since then they got irrelevant and now I don't know what to do with them. But I know that this time around, the reasons keeping me away from blogging are good reasons. Real life reasons, like consciously choosing to spend time with family, or having a new job. That mixed things up a bit ;) I swear, I'm trying to learn to organize my time better and squeeze some blogging time in. I'm working on it. I'll get

Turning the Page...

This is just a short little post to announce rather than explain... I have a job now :)  After nearly 3 years of hopeless jobhunting, I have finally found myself a position. I hope to tell you more about this little miracle and how it happened, but for now I am learning to juggle my part-time job and fit in the rest of my life, including the blog, around it. It's a challenge. My days are uspide down, completely un-natural to me, but I hope I shall get used to it soon and learn to use my time better. So it turns out that for once I actually have a very good reason for why the blog post schedule, if there ever was one, has been severely disrupted again. As always, I hope to get it back on track soon, however, as always, I make no promises. Life has been very interesting and unexpected recently and I just go along and make of it what I can.  Have a nice week :) I'll see you soon! xx P.S. As a homework, go outside and smell the spring (if your climate allows it)

Music Monthly: January 2015

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Oh look, if it isn't the long lost Music Monthly! Remember when I used to do this (more or less) regularly? :D Towards the end of the last year I realized how much I miss writing about music and so I decided to give it a try once more :) The first Music Monthly of 2015 is a bit of a winter tie-in. Some of these songs I've been enjoying since autumn, some are embarrassingly new to me, but above all, it's good fun :) For any new readers around here (Welcome!), let me re-introduce the feature and how it was originally born: It occurred to me once that what you go through in life often reflects in the songs that keep you company. And through these songs that are with you in your good times and in bad, you build a relationship to a new interpret or a new style of music that you haven’t listened to before. Music Monthly is more or less regular summary of my musical life experience, an insight into what songs have caught my attention and why, which ones got stuck i

Hudson Taylor at Electric Ballroom

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Well aren't you good at patiently waiting for me to get it together? I hope the following music-y ramblings will not disappoint you. In all honesty, the timing of this post could not be any better, because Hudson Taylor's debut album has only just been released in Ireland and for the rest of us the wait is almost over. Trust me, 23rd March will be here sooner than you think. Head over to hudsontaylormusic.com to find out about how and where you can pre-order it. (Or indeed, purchase if you have the proverbial luck of the Irish :) ) Now, let me once again take you back in time, to last summer, 5th June 2014, if you want me to be date specific. On that memorable day I strolled around Regent's Park and in the evening I went to my first (and hopefully not last) concert in London. I've already talked about the supporting musicians: Kimberly Ann and the oh so amazing Flyte (still not over them!), but now comes the time to talk about the music that I

Goodbye, 2014! Hello, New Year!

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image and positive vibes from Sprinkle of Glitter So it appears to be the new year. How did that happen, eh? It seems only like yesterday that I was summarizing the previous year and building a hopeful and active mindset for 2014. Well, maybe not like yesterday, but the day before that. This post shall be similar to last year's , a little look back at what happened and a look ahead at what is to come. I hope you enjoy. Here's a little run down of what 2014 was for me: