June In Photos

STORIES BEHIND THE PHOTOS

1. We discovered this tea shop called T2 and they had Australian tea in there (it's an Australian company so not really that shocking but STILL). Now I hate tea but this place made me want to like it. 

2. Cinnamon doughnuts at one of our favourite local Italian restaurants. 

3. Mocktails at Bills with my dad and sister. I can't remember what this was but I know it was very yummy. 

4. Picnic lunch on the train to Bath with my mum. 

5. We went on a tour of the Bath Abbey and you got to go on the roof of the abbey and boy, was it cool.

6. My dad met us the next day for a delicious full english breakfast at the farm shop. Gunna miss this place over the summer holidays. 

7. We went to see Carl Donnelly at a comedy night and it was so great. He makes me laugh almost dangerously hard. 

8. Waiting for the pizza man to arrive.

9. KEYS TO MY NEW HOUSE. KEYS TO MY NEW HOUSE. 

10. This is Hall and Woodhouse, a new restaurant/bar in Bath I've discovered. It's amazing. And look bunting! 

11. Me and Jade (my sister) at the Roman Baths. Despite living in Bath for a year this was the first time I've visited the baths since I was very little. It's pretty rad. 

12. At Bills again, this time for curry and more of that delicious cocktail from before. 

13. Summer at my house means fire bowls in the garden. 

14. Pub lunch in the sun. (This was a lovely lunch BUT I should have been at the Foo Fighters show in wembley, except Dave Grohl fell of stage and broke his leg so it got cancelled. That MAN.)

15. Wearing a cactus t-shirt and admiring the flowers at the garden centre... is it obvious that I really like plants? 

16. We visited Castle Coombe for Father's Day, and it turns out they filmed Stardust there which is a film I adore! 

17. Castle Coombe again. This place is adorable and I want to live there. 

18. Bookshop crawl! 

19. Mocktail break at Revolution on my bookshop crawl. 

20. Of course I visited Mr B's during my crawl. Fave place <3 

21. Post crawl coffee. 

22. Also we met a deer. Bit weird. 

23. Me and Jade took a selfie exactly like this one when I moved into uni, now i'm moving out of uni. That went very quickly. 

24. We discovered this rad garden centre in Bath. 

25. Officially moved out of halls now. Bye little uni room :(

26. All empty! :(

27. Avocado on toast and coffee. Classic me.

AND ONTO JULY

And that't my June in photos. June was a pretty rad month, and if Dave hadn't broken his leg it probably would have been my best yet (I say probably but I mean definitely, I love the Foo Fighters that much.) Luckily Dave Grohl is my favourite human in the universe so I don't mind too much, plus there's always next time. 

How was your June? Let me know in the comments. 

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Thanks for reading, 

Love Chloe x

April in Photos

THE PHOTOS 

THE STORIES

This is my April in photos, and here are the stories of these photos: 

1. My sister did a Disney photo shoot and this was the Belle inspired makeup that I had. 

2. Easter treats #1.

3. Easter treats #2 - pavlova made by me and my my mum! 

4. Easter treats #3 - hot cross loaf made by me! 

5. Penguins at the zoo. 

6. Me at Marwell zoo :) 

7. I held a baby for the first time ever and he held my hair. It was kinda adorable (okay very adorable). 

8. Bundy and coke with my sister on National Sibling Day. 

9. This sunset view was on the roof of a carpark. Pretty rad, huh. 

10. We went to get churros and mocktails before going to the cinema and they had sombreros in the bar so we became SOMEBREBROS.

11. Waiting for food in wagamama and I was STARVING. I don't think I'd eaten food that wasn't pretzels since about 9am and at this point it was about 7pm. That's a long time to live on just pretzels. 

12. More mocktails, but with my mum this time. They were deliciooous!

13. We were looking through old photo albums and I found this photo of my sister and I at the 12 Apostles taken in 1997. How crazy is that? I would have been 1! (I'm the one on the left.)

14. Look at this adorable little cake! It tasted as yummy as it looked. 

15. My family and I went for afternoon tea at the Jane Austen centre in Bath and it was one of the best I've ever had. If you're in Bath definitely visit this place for "tea with Mr Darcy"! 

16. On that same weekend we stayed in the Tracy Park Hotel (just outside of Bath city) and we had a four poster bed! It was so cosy. 

17. Coffee in the sunshine just before my lecture. It was lovely. 

18. I went to the Harry Potter Studio tour in Watford with my mum and sister and saw the REAL HOGWARTS EXPRESS. So so so cool <3. 

THAT'S IT

So that's my April in photos. April was such a great month and I did lots of lovely things. 

How was your April? Let me know what you got up to in the comments :) 

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Love Chloe x

A Weekend in France // TRAVEL

A Weekend In France - 14/15th June 2014

So over the past weekend my parents and I tumbled into our car at 5am and drove down to Kent where we would take the Eurotunnel, and it was here our adventure started!  

After an uncomfortable sleep in the back of the car and a short drive once we had arrived in Calais, we reached our home for the weekend - Le Touquet! Now you can go to markets all over the world, but France really knows how to do a market, although it's quite common to see spare parts for dolls and barbies in boxes, which is just a little bit terrifying. Saturday is market day in Le Touquet, so after having scones and lattes for breakfast (yes I did have scones have breakfast and yes it's as good as it sounds) we wandered over to the market. You could buy pretty much anything there - shoes, fruit, books, antiques, home ware, fish and that's just a little selection of the stuff on offer! My favourite purchase at the market was the radishes we bought; not because I really love radishes or anything, but because we bought them off a French farmer who had real life green fingers! And he looked really pleased that we'd chosen him to get our radishes from - bless! 

After lunch and a little browse around the few shops Le Touquet has to offer, we headed back to our hotel. Now the hotel we always stay at when we're there is right on the beach. Like when you step out of the door you're on the beach, pretty great right? However that does mean that rooms with a sea view are a little pricey! So we'd settled for a room with a view of the sand dunes (which is just a nicer way of them saying that your view will be of the car park and if you really stretch your head out the window you can catch a glimpse of the sand dunes). But to our surprise we had been upgraded to a room with a sea view, woooo! Also they'd left a bottle of Le Touquet brewed beer and biscuits in the room, extra woooo! 

We had our dinner in the best fish restaurant I've ever been to, the food there is amazing! And then we finished off the day in the hotel bar, where we were joined by the most beautiful sunset. It was all oranges and reds and pinks and the reflections of it on the sea were breathtaking. I could have taken thousands of photos, but due to the fear that it looked like I was taking photos of the couple sitting outside, I didn't... hahaha.

Now hotel breakfasts are one of my favourite things ever. There's just so much amazing food to choose from, and also an endless supply of coffee and orange juice which is great. And as I said, this hotel is right on the beach, so I enjoyed my platefuls of pastries and scrambled egg and bowls of cereal with a lovely morning view of the beach... Perfect!

Sunday’s in France are very relaxed, most shops close or are only open until midday, but when you’re right by the beach, shopping isn’t really on the top of my list of things to do. Therefore, we walked along the beach instead. The beach at Le Touquet stretches for miles, so even though I’ve been here loads of times, there were still parts of the beach unexplored. So we walked along those parts, discovering a lovely little café that was placed right on the sand and loads of little beach huts that were all brightly coloured and adorable. After some cold drinks we emptied the sand out of our shoes and headed into the main part of town. We took a quick look around some of the shops before they closed their doors for the day and then settled into the local Irish pub for a coffee. 

So cute.

People watching in the Irish pub.

Before leaving the beautiful beach and starting our journey home we got lunch in the hotel bar. A club sandwich and chips for me, accompanied with a pineapple flavoured mocktail, yummmm! And then it was just about time to go home.

The mocktails, delicious!

It was a short but sweet trip, and I can’t wait to have more Le Touquet adventures!