Travel Diary - GRONINGEN / part 3

Later that day we drove to Groningen which was the next part of our trip to stay with my dads friend Robert. By the time we got there it was around 6.30. We settled in and had a bit of a rest whiles Robert went to the gym. We were all starving so dad and Robert took us to a pizza place about 15 minutes away where my dad had been before (much to my excitement. I'm SUCH a fussy eater and this was my first meal into the hols!)

It was honestly so nice and we were the only people in there! 

We got home and pretty much went to bed straight away as everyone was exhausted! 

The next day we all walked into the main town to do a bit of shopping and sight seeing (although there is next to no sights to see!). Robert had mentioned about this tower. You could climb to the top! We found the tourist info centre and bought our tokens which were 3 euros each.

We got to what we thought was the top and the view was amazing! My dad decided not to climb because the stairs were very narrow and in a small place, both of which my dad doesn't deal well with and has panic attacks. 

After walking around at the top, we found a secret door which lead us right to the clock face! We were all so amazed but it was stupidly windy at the top. I recorded a video but its not working on here unfortunately. If your even in Groningen for any reason, I seriously suggest you go here! 

You can see by all our faces and hair the kind of wind!! 

Me and Kayne went off to do some shopping whiles everyone else went to get some lunch. After about an hour we met back up with them and me, Kayne, Dot, Queenie and my dad decided we were going to go swimming that afternoon. Catherine and Ada stayed in the town and visited some churches.

The swimming pool was amazing! It has flumes, a wave machine, whirl pools, lazy river and an outdoor pool! We ended up staying in the poor for over 2 hours! We went and picked up Catherine and Ada at the supermarket and cooked/ate dinner. We watched about 6 eps of The Simpsons! We had an early night because everyone was so tired and we had a loooong drive the next day! 

Have you ever been to Groningen? Part 4 is coming up tomorrow!

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Travel Diary - AMSTERDAM / part 2

The next day we all woke up quite early. Catherine and the girls went to get breakfast while me, Kayne and my dad got ready (we were late risers!). We ate breakfast and got ready. Ada had read that there was a local market every day which she wanted to see and when we asked out host he said it was literally 30 seconds down the road so thats where we went.

Much to our amusement, a lot of 'swear words' that we have here mean things in Amsterdam. 

Queenie bought these sunglasses, they looked so cute!! 

Although these sunglasses didn't suit me at all, my mum thought they looked lovely when I showed her the picture! What do you think?!

As we had to check out of our apartment by 12pm we drove to another part of Amsterdam (about 15 minutes away) where we found this gorgeous little cafe/bar. It was absolutely tiny and all 7 of us completely overtook the upstairs bit! 

We also found another little market just down the road that we obviously had to look at. My dad actually bought one of these prints! They were so nice! 

Are you enjoying my travel diary series? Part 3 will be up tomorrow! 

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Where have I been?!?!

Its been sooooooo long since my last post and I always said I'd never do one of these 'update' posts because next week, next month or even next year this will be SO irrelevant and I probably will end up deleting this but for now its completely relevant. Since my last post which you can read HERE, I meant to schedule so many posts whiles I was away BUT my mums computer broke and she had to take our home one into work (she's a graphic designer, so without a computer she's pretty non workable) but I was away from the 13th till the 20th and my computer is still not back at home *SAD FACES* so I'm unable to do any posts.

 I am currently at college and I've quickly made these collages from my iPhone photos that I took whiles I was away. I'm not going to say anything more about them and let you guess from the photos, BUT I am going to be doing a full travel diary to explain everything once my computer is home. I also have so many style posts to get up and I got some beauty bits whiles I was away and for Easter from my mum so look forward to those. I literally have a list of about 15 posts (not even including my travel diary!) so once the computer is home look out for those!!