2016 Exciting Travel Plans

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I’m currently saving for travelling (aka working my arse off and trying not to spend all of my money on books/clothes/makeup/music/food… I’m only partially failing!) and so I thought I’d upload a post sharing some of my travel plans (it’s not all completely booked/finalised just yet, but this is how I’m hoping it’ll go down 🛩)
MAY

• Spend a week in rainy but beautiful Plymouth avec my father (I haven’t asked him if I can come yet, but I know he reads this blog so dad – this is me asking!)
• Fly to Berlin and spend 5 days there, followed by 5 days in Copenhagen with one of my bestest friends Gabriela
• Fly to Marseilles for my cousins wedding and spend a week in the beautiful and hopefully sunny region La Croix Valmer.

Berlin

Copenhagen

 

JUNE

• Fly to Nepal to spend just under a month volunteering with CU Help, where I will hopefully be positioned volunteering in a local school whilst living with a host Nepalese family.

Nepal

 

JULY

• Fly to Thailand to spend a month with PMGY doing a full on Thailand tour, which includes cities, beaches, volunteering, full moon parties and much more!
• (very end of the month) Fly to Malaysia to spend a week with my cousin (hopefully if he’s still in KL by then!)

Thailand

Malaysia

 

AUGUST

• Fly to Sri Lanka to spend 3 weeks with PMGY undertaking the elephant orphanage programme, where I will hopefully be able to look after the magnificent animals, explore, and enjoy the local cuisine
• Turn 19
• Fly home to England

Sri Lanka

 

 

SEPTEMBER

• Go to a different cousins wedding, which is being held in a beautiful and very special church, and the reception is being held on the family land
• Go off to university (oh hey Bristol, can’t wait!!)

If you’d like to see a post more in detail about what I plan to get up to in Europe or SE Asia then like this post or comment below!

 

All photographs from Pinterest.

10 Places I’d Rather Be

I saw this on Hayle Olson’s blog the other day, and decided it was one of the best posts I could relate to right now, so I’m doing my own version of it! Check out Hayle’s blog here.

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London: Partying hard with two of my best friends whom currently go to university there.

Ecuador: Swinging on the swing at the end of the world (which I never shut up about I know).

Disneyland Florida: Watching the firework display (I adore fireworks, they are one of my all time favourite things!)

Canada: Visiting my cousin, trying poutine and exploring the huuuuge shopping malls and stunning lakes

Pongo pygmaeus Orang-utan with baby at Camp Leakey Tanjung Puting Reserve South Kalimantan, Indonesia

Borneo: Volunteering in any sort of orang-utan sanctuaries

Australia: Learning to surf (so so so desperately want to learn to surf!)

Alaska: Husky sled riding through the gorgeous scenery

Rome: Sightseeing, catching up with a friend and a bit of shopping of course!

Iceland: Hot springs and northern lights… yes please!

Cuba: Learning to scuba dive on a beautiful coast, and exploring the culture

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If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?

The Starlight Blogger Award

Thankyou to the beautiful Molly for nominating me for this award!

The rules are:

“Thank the giver and link their blog to your post.

Answer the 3 original questions and then the 3 new questions from your nominator given to you.

Nominate your 6 favorite bloggers! In your nominees I would like for you to think at the light emanating from the stars the ones that truly touch your soul with their work, the ones that are the light for you a true STARLIGHT Blogger.

Please pass the award on to 6 or more other Bloggers of your choice and let them know that they have been nominated by you.

Include the logo of the award in a post or on your Blog, please never alter the logo, never change the 3 original questions answer that first then answer the 3 new questions from your nominator and never change the Award rules.

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Original 3 questions:

1. If you could meet anyone from throughout history, who and why? I would absolutely love to meet Martin Luther King or Marilyn Monroe, as to me both are hugely interesting characters. I would also love to meet J.K Rowling as the Harry Potter series basically shaped my childhood, or Walt Disney as he seemed like an incredibly down to earth person.
2. What is your favourite book and why? This is an impossible question! I read too many books for this! I obviously loved the HP series, I loved The man who couldn’t stop, and I loved Rembrandt’s Daughter. But in reality there are so many books I love that this is a horrendous question for me haha!
3. Who is your favourite fiction character from any medium and why? I have two very very different answers for this. 1. Sirius Black as he’s such a loyal friend that never ever gives in when he believes strongly about something. 2. the woman that Jacob Banks sings about in his song ‘something beautiful’ – the love he sings about is something I could only ever imagine in fairy tales.

Molly’s questions:

1. What is your favourite blog post and why? In general my favourite posts to read are anything travel related; I know that’s very vague! I love travelling, and reading about other peoples adventures really excites me!
2. What is your dream holiday destination right now? Right now would have to be Ecuador; to swing on the swing at the end of the world has been on my bucket list since I saw a picture of it roughly 5 years ago (and Ecuador is a bloody beautiful place anyway! There would be so much to see and explore ahh I want to go tomorrow!)
3. If you could go and volunteer anywhere in the world, where would you go and why? Hands down without a doubt Borneo – Orang-utans are my all time favourite animals so to be able to volunteer with them would be amazing! That’s a dream, but not a reality right now. But hopefully next year, I’ll be in Sri Lanka volunteering with elephants (my second most favourite animal!) which I’m crazy excited for already!

I nominate:

Lauren Elizabeth Says

Brainlaces

Everything you never need to know

Katy-Lou

Bibliomad

My Questions:

1. Who is the most important person to you, and why?
2. If you could give a lump some of money to any one charity, which would it be and why?
3. If you could have any one job in the world, which would it be and why?

I really hope you guys enjoy answering my questions!

What I Got For My Birthday

This is my absolute favourite sort of post to read/youtube video to watch, so as I celebrated my 18th birthday on Sunday (16th August), I decided to share with you what I got for my 18th birthday!

(Side note – By writing this post I am in no ways ‘showing off’ I am merely sharing what I got for my birthday as I find it interesting to see whatever other people got, and thought this could also provide suggestions for friends/sisters/girlfriends etc.)

I wont include everything I got for my birthday, just what I think you’ll find interesting!

• Canon 700D with 18-55mm lens (this was my main present and oh my gosh I am so so so happy that I got this! It means better blog photos and better pics for my scrapbook!)
• Breville Blend Active (again I am soooo happy I got this! It’s basically a cheaper version of a nutribullet but seems to work just as well!)
• Instax mini 8 (I got this from my best friends which was so nice and unexpected – I’d put this on my ‘to-buy’ list and told them about it and they got it for me which I was so happy about! I’ve already taken a number of pictures on it and I love it!)
• Jewellery (I got a selection of jewellery pieces including; a Thomas Sabo ‘E’ charm to go on my Swarovski charm bracelet, a mini loveheart locket, a gorgeous pearl and diamond ring, and a gold necklace which says ‘Eleanor’ in Arabic – this was a present to me from my uncle (whom was Egyptian) before he passed away, and my mum kept it to give to me as a special present on my 18th birthday)
• Origins gift set (including a mini face wash, face mask, moisturiser and facial scrub – I’ve heard great reviews about all of these products so I’m so excited to try them out!)
• Lee Stafford argan oil for my hair (‘m trying to get a bit more life back into my hair!)
• Black spotty makeup bag (one can never have enough makeup/wash bags. never.)
• China teapot and cup (aka the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen found by my mum in our favourite Antiques shop)
• L’occitaine gift set (I love anything L’occitaine so I’m very excited to start using this)
• Travel essentials (including a travel journal which I’m so happy about, I can keep all of my notes in one place and when I return it’ll remind me of all my adventures! A luggage scale which is small and portable, as I don’t want to ever incur extra luggage charges, and a super power portable phone charger as when I’m travelling I’m unlikely to have constant electricity so I figured I could charge this bad boy up and it apparently provides around 3 full charges)
• Horse shaped door stop (I’ve been going on about how much I’ve been wanting one for ages and my mum bought me this lovely one! we’ve named him Dorian!)
• Bottle of champagne (considering I can now legally drink!)

Hope you enjoyed the post! if you have a ‘what I got for my birthday’ post be sure to link it below so that I can check it out!