Category: Travel

  • When in Barcelona

    you eat tapas.. and more importantly, pintxos. I stuffed myself with these for 3 days and I don’t regret it at all.

    I did a little sightseeing, but as it was my third visit, I took it pretty easy.. this Gaudi is in the Passeig de Gracia.. right by a Zara 🙂

    I also made it to dinner at Pakta, the new Adria restaurant.. it was a Peruvian Japanese fusion – just divine, if this was a food blog I would post pictures of all 20 courses… this is a picture of the their other restaurant, Tickets, which was right by my hotel…

    And of course, there was fashion… I ‘discovered’ this cute little boutique in the now funky El Born area.. Malababa.. all made locally in Spain, they have a few other branches in Madrid as well.

    They make the most beautiful bags and jewellery.. I wish I hadn’t have blown my budget on food and Zara before I found it, I would have bought more.. here are some of my favourite things.

    The necklace above also comes in a bracelet, which sadly is not online, so I will have to go back to get it.
    their website is: www.malababa.com

     
  • Happy 2013!

    Hello 2013, let’s make it a very stylish one with love and happiness for all…

    Great, now that’s over with, for my NYE festivities I went to Amsterdam this year, a much cool-er event than last year in Bali, no matter which way you interpret that word.

    Here is the view from my accommodation:

    Such a beautiful city day and night.

    The best shopping I found was in the infamous 9 Streets ( De 9 Straatjes in Dutch!).. one of my favourite shops was Pretty Rings which as suggested has an enormous range of beautiful and well priced jewellery:

    These 9 Streets are filled with unique design shops and antiques… by far some of the best shopping I have seen in northern Europe.. The Dutch experience was just fantastic. The people are so helpful and friendly, the food was surprisingly good and of course, the airport visit is always the full stop on your holiday.. this is how the Netherlands said goodbye to me:

  • Camp Royal Mail

    Loving the British sense of humour here..