England, part II

      

My dear, dear England

These past 2 weeks have been truly amazing!

• I met my 5 month old niece and she stole my heart completely! 
• Oxford is one of the loveliest places I've ever been to. From the extremely polite and helpful people, to the architecture (which has grown on me since at first I was not very fond of it), the very healthy and absolutely delicious dishes, the (seemingly) never ending parks and green spaces. It is safe to say I would love to live there one day. 
• The weather seems to suit me and my bipolar personality quite well. It is really so unpredictable I hardly ever knew what to wear outside the house. 
• The beauty of charity shops! I could easily build a library full of great books with very little money and the same goes for clothes and jewelry. I must admit that at one point I was spending more time in charity shops than exploring the city. 
• New good music in my playlist now, thanks to my sister's amazing record collection (Scout Niblett, Cat Power, more David Bowie, Suzanne Vega etc.)

More pictures to come, of course :) Which sadly are not that great since they're all taken with my phone (I was very uninspired and left my camera home).

Scout Niblett - Gun

Winter sun

We haven't really taken advantage of the winter vacation as well as we should have so now, in the last couple of days, we decided to make the best of our remaining free time. The plan was to wake up early, make coffee and pack some croissants with Nutella and head off to the beach. Of course, we couldn't get up early so the breakfast turned into a late lunch and according to my Belgian flatmate: "Nutella is only for breakfast or for late dinners" so we just bought some sandwiches from downtown. 

Still, we had a great time. The sun was bright, the wind was blowing like crazy and we had the nicest view in front of us. I keep thinking that there's a chance I'll never have a winter with 25 degrees during the day, so instead of longing for snow, I might as well enjoy this experience. And I'm really starting to like it although palm trees and Christmas lights don't go together in my eyes. 

We had our fun and in the end we made a pinky promise to return to this beautiful place in 3 years :)

And some of my friend's pictures: