Cyprus

Cyprus

Yesterday I arrived in Cyprus with my family after a tiring two part night flight. It’s only a couple of weeks since I was in the South of France (feeling like a bit of a jet-setter at the moment!). But I really feel like I need this holiday to spend some time with my family and hopefully get a bit of sun!

The villa we are staying in is beautiful. Up near the mountains of Northern Cyprus, but looking out on to the bright blue sea and a short drive from the beach. There is a large pool at the front looking on to the panoramic view and a couple of sun beds and some floats for getting that all important glow! However…there is no wifi! A blogger/social media obsessives worst nightmare!

I’m torn. In a way I’m grateful, I know it will do me the world of good to have a break from my phone an laptop. To give my eyes a rest from staring at a screen and my thumb a rest from scrolling! Yet part of me is totally dying! I can’t text, call or message anyone with out it costing me the earth! I can’t make people jealous on Instagram and Snapchat with beautiful holiday pictures. I won’t even be able to watch MiC on Monday!

But I am still trying to blog. One thing that I really wanted to use this time for on holiday was to catch up with my blog and get back into posting more frequently. It’s something I have spoken a lot about recently. About how I’m not really happy with my blog and how I am struggling to find the time to put as much work into it as I would like. A lot of the bloggers that I look up to are people that blog for a living. So it’s hard to manage the expectations of what I can do alongside a full-time job and a three hour commute each day!

Either way, I’m still working on it. It’s not that I have writers block, there is actually so much stuff that I would like to share. I probably have nearly 20 lots of post photos ready but still not found the time to write them all.

So this holiday, while I can’t promise that I will be posting a whole lot due to my little issue that is lack of internet. I can say that I am ready to get back into writing, to spilling my thoughts and feelings and inspiration out onto a page.

So I hope that you are all well and I look forward to writing for you again!

Speak soon xx

Holiday Randoms

Holiday Randoms 

Thought that I would share with you some random pictures from my holiday so far. I have been blogging most days and I am constantly with my camera snapping away, not all of my favourite holiday photos have made it in to blog posts. So these are just all of the extra ones! Hope you like them. 

Playing around with polaroid pictures. 

I just can't get over the amazing view from our pool!

Some of my pool side essentials (and suncream of course!)

Watching the sun go down and making these beautiful lines and colours in the sky. 

We were all in the car and I made my dad pull over so I could get some shots of this amazing view. And also to post in front of it! 

Had dinner tonight by this beautiful harbour in Fiskado. I loved looking at all the different boats as well. Some of them were huge. 

Tomorrow we have hired a boat for the day and we are going to sail around and hopefully find some beautiful hidden beaches to put our anchor down and swim to. And hopefully I can take some good snaps as well, although my camera has just started playing up a little typical! Speak soon xx

Holiday Randoms

Holiday Randoms 

Thought that I would share with you some random pictures from my holiday so far. I have been blogging most days and I am constantly with my camera snapping away, not all of my favourite holiday photos have made it in to blog posts. So these are just all of the extra ones! Hope you like them. 

Playing around with polaroid pictures. 

I just can't get over the amazing view from our pool!

Some of my pool side essentials (and suncream of course!)

Watching the sun go down and making these beautiful lines and colours in the sky. 

We were all in the car and I made my dad pull over so I could get some shots of this amazing view. And also to post in front of it! 

Had dinner tonight by this beautiful harbour in Fiskado. I loved looking at all the different boats as well. Some of them were huge. 

Tomorrow we have hired a boat for the day and we are going to sail around and hopefully find some beautiful hidden beaches to put our anchor down and swim to. And hopefully I can take some good snaps as well, although my camera has just started playing up a little typical! Speak soon xx

Light And Breezy

Light and Breezy 

Yesterday we did some more exploring and found yet another beautiful spot. I actually think that Kefalonia is just one beautiful spot after another. Again there wasn't much of a beach here but the sea and swimming was just lovely. 

When the weather is as hot as this loose clothing is a must! This outfit was actually a total fluke, mum said that we were leaving and I grabbed a skirt and a white top from my cupboard to throw over my bikini. But I actually love how these two look together, white tops really do go with everything! 

Usually I tuck tops into this skirt but I love how this floaty and slightly cropped top looks over the skirt showing the scalloped lace detail. I also think it looks slightly bohemian which is a style that I love. 

Top - Charity Shop (Topshop)

Skirt - Hollister

Sunhat - Accessorize

So sorry about the lack of posts yesterday, the internet was down. But it is back now and hopefully it will stay like that! Think we are heading out to a beach after lunch today so I am going to take my camera and capture some more beautiful shots. Speak later xx

Light And Breezy

Light and Breezy 

Yesterday we did some more exploring and found yet another beautiful spot. I actually think that Kefalonia is just one beautiful spot after another. Again there wasn't much of a beach here but the sea and swimming was just lovely. 

When the weather is as hot as this loose clothing is a must! This outfit was actually a total fluke, mum said that we were leaving and I grabbed a skirt and a white top from my cupboard to throw over my bikini. But I actually love how these two look together, white tops really do go with everything! 

Usually I tuck tops into this skirt but I love how this floaty and slightly cropped top looks over the skirt showing the scalloped lace detail. I also think it looks slightly bohemian which is a style that I love. 

Top - Charity Shop (Topshop)

Skirt - Hollister

Sunhat - Accessorize

So sorry about the lack of posts yesterday, the internet was down. But it is back now and hopefully it will stay like that! Think we are heading out to a beach after lunch today so I am going to take my camera and capture some more beautiful shots. Speak later xx

First Day In Kefalonia

First Day In Kefalonia 

We arrived in Kefalonia! And my gosh, it is so beautiful. I think tomorrow I might take a few pictures of our villa, pool and view to share with you all. But right now I just have a few pictures from today. 

We arrived at the villa at around midday and basically jumped straight in the pool! After a pretty chilled afternoon sunbathing, unpacking and catching up on some much sleep we headed out in our hire car to explore the area. And this is what we stumbled across!

The beach wasn't particularly sandy but the sea and swimming certainly made up for that. The water was the perfect temperate and so clear and calm. My dad, brother, sister and I swam out for ages (all the way to some of the boats on the right in the first picture). Near the boats we found a cave that we could swim into and do a bit of exploring. We also did some cliff jumping off some of the high rocks by the cave. My brother Nick doing flips, my sister and I leaping, screaming and hitting the water very hard! But it was one of the most amazing swims I have ever done and this was only the first day. 

Since we got back to the villa we had a lovely barbecue for dinner and have been relaxing. I've found my little work station which is perfect for blogging too! And yes, this is my new laptop! I am still learning how to use it, and having been a Dell user all of my life it is probably going to take some time. 

But I should probably get some sleep now, we were up at 2am this morning and I have lost 2 hours due to the time difference. So keep an eye out for all of my Kefalonia blogposts coming up in the next couple of weeks. Speak soon xx

First Day In Kefalonia

First Day In Kefalonia 

We arrived in Kefalonia! And my gosh, it is so beautiful. I think tomorrow I might take a few pictures of our villa, pool and view to share with you all. But right now I just have a few pictures from today. 

We arrived at the villa at around midday and basically jumped straight in the pool! After a pretty chilled afternoon sunbathing, unpacking and catching up on some much sleep we headed out in our hire car to explore the area. And this is what we stumbled across!

The beach wasn't particularly sandy but the sea and swimming certainly made up for that. The water was the perfect temperate and so clear and calm. My dad, brother, sister and I swam out for ages (all the way to some of the boats on the right in the first picture). Near the boats we found a cave that we could swim into and do a bit of exploring. We also did some cliff jumping off some of the high rocks by the cave. My brother Nick doing flips, my sister and I leaping, screaming and hitting the water very hard! But it was one of the most amazing swims I have ever done and this was only the first day. 

Since we got back to the villa we had a lovely barbecue for dinner and have been relaxing. I've found my little work station which is perfect for blogging too! And yes, this is my new laptop! I am still learning how to use it, and having been a Dell user all of my life it is probably going to take some time. 

But I should probably get some sleep now, we were up at 2am this morning and I have lost 2 hours due to the time difference. So keep an eye out for all of my Kefalonia blogposts coming up in the next couple of weeks. Speak soon xx