Visitors

N's sister Kejal popped over a few weeks ago and whilst the weather was pretty poor for her stay we did manage to fit in a little trip to Lisbon.

N and I have been flying in and out of there for months now but never actually visited so with Kejal and a borrowed sat nav we headed off to explore the city.

The city reminded me of San Francisco, sharp hills and trams buzzing by.

Pretty colourful buildings.

So much amazing street art.

Such a beautiful city, we hope to go back soon and stay for longer than a day. There's so much more to see that we couldn't fit in in one afternoon. We mainly stayed around the Bairro Alto region exploring the shops, eating and drinking and being entertained by the street performers!

Til next time Lisboa.

E x

                                                                     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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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.

Project Portugal

Good Morning!

I'm eating my breakfast, sun on my back and feeling ever so slightly groggy but in a "I'm so happy I don't have to work" way, why? because I'm in Portugal.
Not just on a 2 week holiday I'm living the Portuguese lifestyle for another 5 months- WIN.

I wanted to have an adventure this year, make new friends, meet interesting people so I gave up everything to come here with my boyfriend and start a new chapter together on the basis that life is simple.

So far in pictures things have gone like this...

Exciting times, lots of pictures and time to blog and pick up a few new followers I hope.

Big Love x

Hold Tight Now...

Portugal post is on it's way....

I'm EXHAUSTED from a weekend of doing this

Normal service will resume after a looooooong bath filled with 4 lush bath bombs, cause that's how I roll.

Toodles

xx

My picture taken on my frickin awesome Fuji Instax 210- N is a god for buying this for me.

Polaroid Walls

Currently I'm mildly obsessed with Polaroid walls, especially Valentines themed ones like these...

Top 3 spotted on blink and you'll miss Polaroid heart found here

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So....I went to Paris part 1

To fully describe the amazing trip to Paris I have to split this up into 3 parts...

35mm photography first..on my beautiful new (old) camera Olympus XA2

With no agenda other than being Parisian cool, Nilesh and I stayed in St Germain, explored Paris by taxi and walked around this beautiful city amazed by how friendly all the Parisians were to us.

These are my favourite shots from the day film and cross processed film Nilesh gave me, I'm so pleased with how they turned out, also I've forgotten how fun it is when you get film developed : )

(Top picture is the view from our hotel balcony-St Germain)

Did I mention..

Alan Clarke was taking my photo?
Well sadly not a shoot just devoted to me, but a lucky few who work in my building and rsvp'd in time.

As part of Internet Week Europe, Alan very kindly took profile shots of a few 100 lucky people of which I managed to snag a space (as I work in the building where the shoot took place) and a fair few shots in the process as I queued super early like the nerd I am.

Here are the three (out of 25!) that I liked the most, the top one makes me laugh as he asked if I had a favourite side which I pointed too and he snapped the opposite, I look so dorky : )

Exciting Times

I'm stupidly excited about work tomorrow....This man is coming in to take portrait profile shots.

I'm going straight to bed to get as much beauty sleep as I can, god I hope the man has time to airbrush...

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