The last big part of my holiday was a family city break to Copenhagen. Denmark is a country I had never been to before, so thats another ticked off my list! It really is such a beautiful city with great architecture. We spent our time visiting museums, taking boats tours, wandering through parks, shopping, eating out and at Tivoli gardens.

We had a great apartment near to the city centre, although 5 flights of stairs is a heck of a long way up! There was a lovely little cafe across the street where we ate breakfast and had afternoon drinks. The Danish do have quite a strange combination of foods for breakfast though; bread, cheese, jam, museli, yoghurt, egg and juice. The houses along the canals were like something off a postcard and it was made even more pretty because of the sunny weather we had.

We climbed to the top of this tower, which had a spiral staircase around the outside of the building! It gave some great views over the city. You could also see Sweden and the huge bridge that lead across to it.

My beautiful sister and brother.

I was rather excited when I realised that there was a Monki store (there were actually 2 in the city centre!) in Copenhagen. I absolutely love the brand and often shop in the online store but find myself put off with having to pay postage because I am never sure if it will fit me properly or look right on me. So I tried on so many things and came away with a few items. Think I might do a little post on those too.

One of the stranger experiences whilst there was visiting Christiania. This is a really unique neighbourhood with its own way of living. It started off as a military area and then people began to squat there. Fairly recently the government has allowed people to begin to buy and rent the properties. It was certainly very interesting but I'm not sure I would like to walk down Pusher Street again where people were freely selling drugs..

This sign did make me laugh though.

A final thing I loved about this city was the number of people that rode bikes! The whole place is designed to make it easier to get around by bike which I think is such a great incentive and something that needs to be done in more UK cities.
Being able to travel to places like this only makes me want to visit even more European cities. Next on the list are Venice, Berlin and Rome.

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Outer Hebrides

I'm going to do a small series of posts showing a few things I have done over the summer holidays. For our family holiday this year we went to 3 islands in the Outer Hebrides. I've been there once before when I was much younger and it really is such a beautiful part of the world. We travelled up at the end of July when there was a heatwave across England, expecting to be greeted with rain and fog. Instead we had glorious sun for 2 weeks!

We visited a beach almost every day and because the islands are fairly small there was usually never anyone else on the beaches. The only thing that would have made it better is if the sea was warm!

The family friends that we were staying with had collected buoys for many years and assembled them in the back yard. The younger generation had great fun playing out on them right up until sunset.

Also a few of us went to the islands annual music festival whilst we were there. There was some great traditional bagpipes as well as bands playing covers of songs. One band played Mr Brightside and I may have turned 14 again..

Later in the holiday we also did some walks up some beautiful hills which left us with views for miles and miles. For me this is holiday was the perfect way to relax and spend time with my family. If only it was closer to home!

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Cathedrals and orangeries

Playsuit - miss selfridge, hat - asda, socks - topshop, vans - office

I've worn this playsuit before on my blog, but it looks better on a sunny day. And the hat was a bargain from asda which i bought when i popped in to try some bikinis on. I wore this when we hired a car and took a day trip to Seville. The villa we were in wasnt far from the spanish border so we got up early and took a visit. We couldnt have picked a hotter day though! It was around 44 degrees, which is not the kind of temperature to be walking round a city in. The best part of the day was the visit to the cathedral. If you get a chance to go it really is wonderful. The inside is so vast and some of the stained glass windows are beautiful. You can walk up one of the towers in the corner and you get a view over the whole city.

  Oh and there was this lovely little orangery in the middle.

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Snapshots

A collage of some of the latest snaps from our holiday.

1. On a beach in the afternoon. Fact: im not a huge fan of beaches, having sand everywhere gets to me!
2. Walking back from town in the evening, wearing a dress from h+m.
3. Spent the day at a waterpark called Aqualand. It was great fun and im hoping my disposable pictures from there turn out well.
4. My beautiful mum on the beach. Love her!
5. Getting a piggy back from the boyfriend :)
6. All the foreign office buildings in Seville, they were really pretty outside.
7. Me and simon in the old part of town. (shorts and top - topshop)
8. Walking round a small village we visited in my maxi dress. (miss selfridge)

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Summer holiday

I am out in portugal at the moment with my family and mine and my sisters boyfriends. So far it has been really lovely. A chance to relax, enjoy some nice food (although eating out as a vegetarian is hard!) and explore new places. We are staying in out own villa with a pool, which is needed because it is so hot in the middle of the day! So far we have eaten out a few times, wandered round the old town, been to the beach and booked some trips for next week. Here are few photos from the holiday so far:

Enjoying watermelon on the balcony :) (dress - miss selfridge)

My boyfriend in the centre 

Walking back to the villa 

Our pool and view 

Bit of a windy day! (dress - h+m)

Oh and it was my birthday! :D Got my presents on monday morning before we flew out here and my family and boyfriend have been so generous! Will do a post on the things i got when i get back probably, there were some really great presents.

Having a lazy day today. Will watch the olympic opening ceremony tonight whilst having an early tea. Its strange how much later everything is out here. Hoping people are enjoying the nice weather back home too.

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