Marrakesh

In school they organize a trip for all the pupils in their pre-final year, that trip was last week and I was lucky enough to go to Marrakesh!

Bye Holland, Hello Morocco. 

 

Djemaa el Fna by night! I loved the atmosphere there!

During our four hour trip towards Ouarzazate we saw this tiny "shop", I thought it looked incredibly cute. Check out the line stone pigs!

 Film studios at Ouarzazate!

 Objects used in several films.

So this is what they call a film studio. Impressive, huh?

 And this is as well called a film studio. Yeah, a lot of nothing.
(The building you can see in the back is the castle used in Game of Thrones.)

Kasbah Aït Benhaddou, this village is placed on the World Heritage Site.
Only five families live here because the renovations took too much time for most people.
The view from this Kasbah (= village with four towers) was amazing!

 HEY IT'S A CAMEL! (Actually it's a dromedary, but camel sounds better.)

 Whoop whoop let's go riding this sweet camel!

While visiting a palace I spotted this pillar. These details are so tiny, must have been a hell of a job to do.

Spices souks, beautifully exposed, don't you think?

Can you feel the chaos?

My name written in Arab (read from right to left) in henna!

And another beautiful henna drawing on my hand.

The souvenirs I brought from the trip!

(Moroccan paper, tajine cups, bracelets, scarfs, a few Dirham coins, key hanger typical Arabic shoes and Arabic Orangina and Fanta.)

It's been a week to remember!

See you soon!

xxx

Italy

I have been on holiday to Italy!

Verbania and Cannobio.

We, my parents, my boyfriend, his parents and I, were there for two weeks, at the lake called 'Lago Maggoire'.

It was such a beautiful place! I totally love those Italian villages, with their small lanes and platforms and, oh it's just so lovely!

The weather was great too! The first week was hot, the second was just good weather, only sometimes it rained or there was (really loud) thunderstorm. Yep, that's also Italy.

The first week we had an apartment in Fondotoce, a small village nearby Verbania. Our apartment was in the middle of nowhere. 

Well, okay, not really in the middle of nowhere, but it was quiet and surrounded by trees, and palm-trees. I like palm-trees! You won't see them very soon in the Netherlands. ;)

On Wednesday 31 July we went to MILAN! 

What a beautiful city! 

So much handsome, Italian, businessmen over there, and all of the women are dressed so fashionable! Very much women wore beautiful dresses! 

I also bought a dress in Milan! in the 'JDC urban store', it's a beautiful dress, it's mint colored and a very nice cloth. I am really happy with my purchase!

The second week we were at Maccagno, nearby Luino. This apartment was at an opposite place as our previous, it was in the village center, and we shared the house with multiple families. The beach of the lake was very close, the beach wasn't an amazing beach; instead of sand was it full of little rocks.. Kind of like a rough massage for your feet... 

We also visited three small islands! These islands are called; Isola Madre, Isola Pescina and Isola Bella. These islands are full of beautiful gardens! We had wonderful weather, so we could take really good photographs. Every island had a palace, all really huge and very beautiful! The palace on Isola Madre had a lot rooms which were filled with marionettes, made a long time ago, of course. The people seemed to love the creepy part of theater, because a lot of the marionettes had angry or creepy faces, or they were devils or monsters... They did really creep me out!

In one of the rooms in the palace on Isola Bella had Napoleon slept. Too bad that we couldn't jump on the bed he slept in, because it looked like a really nice, soft, and most of all: BIG bed! 

I've had a holiday to remember!

See you soon!

Me, Isola pescina, a rose from Isola Bella, and a view from Isola Bella.

Flowers from the gardens we've visited.

Things I have done...

I realized that I don't have to write about things that just happened, I can also tell you about things I did a few months ago.

So that is what I'm going to do now.

At my birthday, which was 1 February, I turned 16 and my parents gave me a photo-shoot,

I liked this really much and the photo's are really beautiful, at least that's what I think about it. ;)

I had a really short school-day,  so we could start with the photo-shoot early.

First of all a make-up artist put a lot more make-up on my face as what I usually add, I had to bring my own clothes and the photographer told me that we could do three photo-shoot sessions.

The first one naturally, then one with my hair curled and other clothes, and for the third one I wore my gala dress and they made my make-up darker.

I liked this photo-shoot really much, I won't forget it easily because it made such an impression.

Photo from the third session.

There is this dutch band, called Handsome Poets, and they have really good music, the lead singer smiles so much, it's amazing. And I have been to a concert of them! The 9th of May in the Paradiso at Amsterdam. That isn't a big hall, so we felt very connected with the band.

Handsome poets with a gospel choir.

I have also been to this dutch festival Pinkpop! It was three days in June and it was AMAZING.

So much good artist, good weather, we were with a group of nice people I didn't know really well before we went, but we had a good time together.

I'll mention some of the artists who performed at Pinkpop; Ben Howard, Passenger, Tom Odell, The Script, The Killers, Ellie Goulding, Thirty seconds to Mars, Fun., Will and the People, Handsome Poets... Not jealous yet?

Well the band who were the last act will make you jealous: GREEN DAY !

We even got a photo with Handsome Poets and their signatures :D

Sun, people and music. The full three days in one photo.

The main stage by night (Green Day performing)

We're the Pinkpop girls!

I have also been to an amusement park with my friend, we went to Walibi.

There are a lot roller coasters and attractions in which you make a looping, so this amusement park isn't boring for teenagers. We had lovely weather and we went into 23 attractions! 

We had both never been there before, but we liked it very much!

This were the coolest things I recently did.

Hope you enjoyed reading!

See you soon!

Sun, sea, sand

I just got back from my holiday in France.
I went with a friend for 10 days to Argelès-sur-Mer, we went with a group dutch people and camped on a camping just 200 meters from the Mediterranean Sea.
But first we had to get there, and we went by bus.
Yes, that took us 18 hours...
But we got to know all the new people, and they were all really nice.
the first day we made two friends, we did everything together for the rest of the week, just us, the group of four girls.
We walked to the city Argelès one day, after, I think, 1,5 hour walking (it shouldn't have taken so long, but we walked the wrong way ;) ) we arrived in a really cute typical French village.
Small lanes, cute restaurants and sweet colored houses with those adorable platforms with flowers.
We had to take breaks to relax and to spray sun protection because we of course didn't want to get sunburned.
Walking to the Supermarché also took us half an hour, this time we did not walk the wrong way.
So as compromise we needed to lay on the beach,and aahh that was so goood.
Sunbathing, swimming, talking, sleeping, (yes, on the beach) and you can see it, because we all tanned!
The travel organisation organised some parties, these were good too!
We went night-swimming one time,
People said that the sea felt less cold as by daylight, but when I ran into the sea I swear it felt WAY colder as by daylight... So it was a short jump into the sea for me, but really cool to do.
I had a wonderful week, here are some pictures:

the Mediterranean Sea

This are the cute houses,  with platforms and colors.

I ran into this beauty while we were looking through the touristic shops. She is gorgeous, isn't she?

See you soon!