A little bit of Normandie

Here's the last part of our summer travels! We spent a long weekend in Normandie, in the North of France, visiting long lost family friends.

Let me just say that the North does not live up to its stereotype. Yes it's grey. Yes it's windy. But the sun did shine for about 30 min each day! The scenery made up for that. I would definitely recommend Noramadie for a vacay. The art scene is unbelievable. You an find galleries on the corner of every street!

W stayed in a charming B&B which was so much nicer than I expected.

Description time:
1/2.The street near our B&B
3/4. The B&B
5. Breakfast at the Café downstairs. Sadly I didn't take any photos of  huge pile of crepes I ate
6. The town Hall (taking with my blackberry, sorry)
7. Chocolate which literally translates as "babies bums"
8. One of the may art galleries
9. Leya having a slush puppy when it was 12°
10. Some lovely fishermen
11.The seaside near out B&B

Lazy Summer Days

Here's the last installment of my Spanish adventure. Thought I'd show you where I've been staying.
1. A beautiful sunrise
2. The view of the other apartments in the complex from the balcony
3. The communal garden
4. The private swimming pool (sorry, I had to take it lying down. I was too tired)
5. The apartments

All in all minus the screaming children around the pool it was a nice holiday, I can't wait to go back to Gava and hopefully make enough time to discover Barcelona.

Gava Beach

Here are a view pictures of our trip to the market. The mother of the family I'm staying with told me that I had to visit "los chinos" before I left. For a split second I thought she was talking about trousers. Then the Spanish I learnt in school crept up on me. Chinos = Chinese people. WHAT??

In Gava, Chinos are the small stalls that Chinese people own by the seaside. Very weird and slightly un-PC (politically correct) if you ask me...

The experience was amazing though. I tried - and failed - to haggle in Spainsh. I bought some rare finds which I'll post later. Here's un pequito description of each photo:

1/2. Los Chinos

3. Some tasteless head scraves that only make sense when your by the beach

4. Jewelry 

5. Sweets

6.Yes, that is a mannequin in a wig shop. One word comes to mind, WHY

7. More bling

Changing Room Confessions

First shopping trip in ESPANA! We went to L'ANEC BLAU shopping center and it was amazing. Not only they have all the Spanish brands I heart (Zara, Pull and Bear, Massimo Dutti), they had air conditioning. I could have spent the rest of my trip there.
Of course I did a lot of shopping and bought more than expected which I'll post when I get back. I also found this little gem in Mango. It's part of the A/W11 collection and I love it. Try and keep me away from a slouchy knit, I dare you! Apparently the're on trend this season so booyah. Sadly I left it in the changing room, Why?? Because I had made a no.more-than-30-euros promise to my bank account. It was only 5 euros more but I stuck to my budget. I regret it already...

Apologies for the blackberry quality of the photo and my floral print underneath. There was no way I could wear trousers.

Welcome to Castelldefels

I hope you appreciated my photo shopping techniques in my Barcelona post! I have some bad news, my battery camera is about to die so there wont be as many photos of this wonderful holiday. 

It's my 3rd day here and all I can say is HOT, HUMID, HOT. I can hardly sleep at night it's so hot and I feel so urrrghhh. But then I step out onto the balcony and it's all worth it. I'm staying in Gava Playa, a 10 minute drive to Barcelona. I love it here.

These photos are from my day trip to Castelldefels, a village 5 minutes away from the flat. Here's a lovely description of each photo:

1. I took this photo at a bus station to prove that I was only a bus ride away from Barcelona!

2. The palm trees in front of the village church were amazing, I didn't expect that creepy man to be staring

3. The mayor's office was so colourful, I'd be happy to go and work there

4.  An interesting piece of architecture near the beach, it was a huge cube shape

5/6. The village church

7. This sweet hobo sitting near the giant cube (we had a great convo in Spanish)

8. A shifty guy selling pirated dvds - no I didn't buy any

9. Some of the flavours in an amazing gelateria. Seriously, they had all the flavours imaginable and then some

All in all twas a great day

And away I go!

(Dora) Today at 18:20, if easyjet is on time, I will take off for....BARCELONA. I'm packing in a fury but have of course found time to procrastinate by creating this post!

I'm so anxious, I'm going with a Spanish family that I tutored last year. But my first Spanish experience wasn't that great. I went to Madrid and the city was so blah. Grey buildings, grey buildings and oh, more grey buildings. I did have a good time but I hope that Barcelona will make my artsy senses tingle.

Clothing wise I'm bringing summer essentials and MY NEW SWIMMING COSTUME! Seriously, it's amazing that a piece of material can just wipe the insecurities away.

Ayayah, I'm looking forward to the food haha