ZOO TRIP

To top off my boyfriend and I's visits to different animal places in the past week or so (the farm, aquarium have already been ticked off the trio) we thought we would take the opportunity of having a sunny Sunday and take a trip to Marwell Zoo. Annoyingly, the lense I would have liked to of used  for my camera was up at uni so I had to make do with this one; not the best thing when the majority of the animals were lurking at the other side of the enclosure when this one doesn't have a zoom! After spending the morning here we took a trip to IKEA (my second trip there this week, wohooo!) where I managed to restrain myself to only purchasing a 95p bin. Well done me!

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AMSTERDAM PHOTO DIARY

I am part of the marketing Society at university and they had organised an end of term trip to visit Amsterdam for a couple of days. I was undecided about whether or not to actually go as I didn't really know anyone that was going, plus the only person that I did know ended up being unable to make it. I decided to tell myself that I spent weeks during the summer travelling alone, so there was no reason that I shouldn't go on this trip! Long story short, I was so so glad that I went, I met some great new friends (one of them, Ana has done an Amsterdam blog post too, which you can check out here) ate amazing food, spent time taking photos and even got to experience some of the Dutch night life. 

Despite being to Amsterdam twice before this trip, I still managed to see so many cool new parts that I hadn't done before, we managed to squeeze so much into the couple of days that we had there and definitely made full use of our time! 

A COUPLE OF DAYS IN LONDON

Seeing as my boyfriend had been working in London for a few weeks I thought I would take a mini break from campus life and pop down to spend a couple of nights with him. While I was there my parents were both lovely enough to come up and spend some time with me whilst he was at work. Seeing as my university is 300 miles from home and I don't get to see much of either of them these days it was lovely to spend some time with them!

With Adam we took an evening trip onto the London Eye, went to the Japanese restaurant Nagomi which is just off of Oxford Street (I'd highly recommend) and spent some time wandering around the Southbank area. With my parents I went to the Sky Garden at the top of the Walkie Talkie building, went out for Vietnamese food, went to the Tate and Serpentine galleries, wandered around Hyde Park and went to Monmouth for coffee! As well as this, I had quite a bit of time on my own that I killed by just wandering around and doing a lot of window shopping in Selfridges!

Here are a few photos from my trip

2015 MEMORIES

Taking inspiration from my lovely friend Laura from Style and Sushi, I thought I would share some of my favourite memories from the duration of the past year! 2015 has been such a great year and I cannot wait for 2016 and the opportunity to make more memories. I share a lot of what I get up to on Instagram, follow me there if you want to keep up with my adventures over the next year.

 I started 2015 off In my favourite place, London watching the fireworks

 A couple of days after I met up with Ellie and finally met Laura after waiting for the longest time to finally meet!

 I went to Paris with my friend for her birthday for a couple of days

 Celebratory drinks after finishing a project that I had been working on as a marketing intern for six months!

 A day trip to Brighton with my now-boyfriend, Adam

 My family went on a mini city break to Rome for a couple of days, we managed to jam so much in to the time we spent there and I would love to go back

 I took Mum to London on her birthday, we went out for lunch and to Kew gardens and had such a lovely day

 A rather spontaneous family trip to Bournemouth where we spent the day mostly taking photos

 Adam and I went to Florence and Pisa as our first holiday together

 A random selection of photos from my Interrail trip, where I spent five weeks travelling around Europe. YOu can read more about it in my full Interrail blog post

 A really delicious BBQ that I had with Adam and some of his friends

 A first IKEA trip with many more to come over the months that followed!

 Adam and I managed to perfect our chicken ramen recipe that we now make on such a regular basis

 Before heading out to a lovely evening of dinner and drinks

 One of my favourite days from this year, we went to Arundel and spent the day playing crazy golf, rowing on the lake and having a pub lunch

 I went to London with my Aunt and Grandma for a proper 'girls day' of shopping and going to the Cowshed spa in Selfridges, before being met for a Hyde Park picnic in the evening by my Dad and sister

 Seaside BBQ with my family followed by beach games

 A room full of connected trampolines, what more could you want?!

 The first day of university!!

 One of my favourite nights from Fresher's week

 Discovering that my university has its' own woods and that they are actually very photogenic!

 Halloween at univeristy with two of my favourite people!

When Adam came to visit me at university and we took a trip to Morecambe

 Another great university night out

 The post Dominoes 'I now can't move and I need a nap' feeling

 My university had a massive power cut due to the flooding and term ended a week early - a perfect opportunity to visit the Manchester Christmas markets with my Aunty!

 Adam and I took my sister to Brighton for a day of shopping, eating and ice skating

 Christmas Day walk by the William Morris Gallery

 A day out in Southsea with mum