Source: whitepeachphoto.com via Jennifer on Pinterest

Whenever I'm feeling lacking in inspiration I always have a little nosey around on Pinterest and today ^this^ caught my eye.

I needed a little challenge to keep me occupied and this is perfect :) Thank you Pinterest and White Peach Photography what a lovely idea!

I expect thousands of other Bloggers will be taking part and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's results.

E x

Project Portugal Instagrams

Along with my obsession for vintage clothes, chocolate and Earl Grey tea I have found a new one to merge the love of my iphone and vintage camera effects- Instagram.
Available for free on the iphone, this app lets you take photos, instantly, add beautiful effects and upload them instantly to your Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and email.
I love tinkering around with each picture, choosing pretty effects and sharing with friends just how beautiful things are around here.

It can get really windy in this part of Portugal, I usually hide in a dune with these beautiful reeds above my head, I get comfy, read my book and watch the clouds in the sky.

The town where we live is quite rural and baron, these flowers are outside an old abandoned house all overgrown and wild. The colours are so rare in a town that is mostly beige.

When I saw this girl it instantly reminded of me of being a child by the beach. I used to catch crabs in a bucket, collect what seemed like hundreds of sea shells to try and sell to the neighbours when I got back home.

Same dune, different day. Ladybird present, clinging to the reed in the harsh wind.

My new favourite cafe in the Medieval town of Obidos, so peaceful, so chic. If you're in the area it's absolutely beautiful and well worth a visit, just make sure you wear flat shoes as the town is hilly and full of slippery but pretty cobbled streets.

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All Change Please, All Change.

Project Portugal so far has been mighty successful, I'm fairly tanned and have moved up a shade in make up (from goth to snow white!) I have made some awesome new friends from across the globe, I'm enjoying the Portuguese lessons and actually understanding it and most importantly, after 26 long years I can now nearly swim underwater.

Now as I am never the kind of person to sit still and wait around, N and I have been thinking about heading off travelling.

I've never done the back packer travelling thing as I left uni with a job that I loved and a flat in London to me that was my adventure. I didn't relish in the idea of living off scary street food and wearing the same t shirt for 6 months. However one of my new years resolutions was to "have an adventure" and even though Portugal has been one it's not really pushing me out of my comfort zone.

N has travelled the world, seen lots of awesome things, stayed in some some beautiful places and some absolute dives and when he talks about it I get so jealous, I wish it could've been me there with him discovering all these wonderful places. It makes me a little sad an annoyed that I didn't have the courage to do this earlier. So after N's sister arrived last week N and I decided that if I want to get some places under my belt I only really have until mid September to do it!

After trying to find somewhere hot to go for July and August (other than Europe it's quite hard to find!) we have settled on Indonesia.

It looks beautiful but it also looks HUGE, a few friends have suggested places to visit but honestly we have no idea where to start our Summer adventure.


So lovely people, passers by, followers any suggestions? Or places online to start looking?

Any comments would be awesome- Thank You!


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This week in photos

I think all the Royal wedding malarky must have gotten to me this week because as of Saturday I was as sick as a dog with some kind of stomach bug. I'm trying to ignore the fact that I ate some dodgy leftover pizza and blame it entirely on jet lag from the beastly travelling week before.

Fully on the mend now though and back to eating full meals without struggling. One lovely discovery of our little Portuguese adventure is that I can actually cook decent meals and I'm now allowed to use the big boy knives after years of being banned from the kitchen I'm loving cooking!

N is an awesome cook and has been super sweet teaching me, being very patient and supportive if things aren't perfect, what a doll.

Portugal is still beautiful, life is too.

5 things I am not missing about England

1. The sweaty commute on the train/tube- The weather hots up and so does the smelly douche bag that wakes up too late to shower, you know it's true.

2. "Totes Rah" Crowd- Big flicked hair, mummy and daddy's money, spending it on drugs in Shoreditch- meh.

3. Faces like smacked bums- cheer up love it's only Monday, oh wait you're about to stab me...

4. Paying £6 for a sandwich- seriously...£6?

5. The weather! yeah, yeah, yeah sunniest April since records began, don't come crying to me in July when it's pissing it down ;)

E x

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