Summer 2011

Had the best summer ever.. one of many summer collages to come…

more new york

New York photo diary, part one.

1. black vest: h&m; beige skirt: american apparel; necklace: accessorize; sandals: office 2. blue floral dress: topshop; sunglasses: rayban. 3. black vest: h&m; dream catcher vest: wildfox; denim shorts: abercrombie & fitch; sneakers: converse.

1. red dress: urban outfitters; sandals: moccasins; watch: michael kors. 2. leather fringe bag: urban outfitters


Landed at Heathrow Airport this morning around 7:15am UK time, after an amazing however stressful trip to New York City with my parents and my brother. Lots of shopping was done along with site seeing and baseball watching. Here are the first set of photos I want to share with you! I haven't posted all photos as its very late here (jetlag…) but I will go into detail in my next post about my time in New York and what I bought…

I still have so much to blog about regarding my year in Italy! However, NYC really inspired me to blog and I couldn't”t wait to post these. Ci sentiamo!

Adèle
beso, bacio, kiss

Buongiorno!

Ey guys… I know its been such a long time and you are expecting some kind of explanation. Well I have been living in Italy since September and since January I have been travelling around Italy and parts of Europe. I couldn’t fully give myself to the blog. I had to drop out of TAKE10 because I could never determine if I would be home etc…
However… on the 23rd of June (around 2 weeks from today) I will be returning to England…. :) but on the 25th I am going to New York for a week! So expect some amazing posts for when I’m back! I haven’t stopped blogging for good… just this year has been really impossible (internet from a usb stick is such a shit)
I look forward to catching up with all your blogs again! Meanwhile I am back on twitter www.twitter.com/adelejoanna
Arrivederci!

Erasmus photo diary

my new home

If you have all been wondering where on earth I have been for the past two weeks or so, the precise location is in fact Cassino, Italy. A small town in central Italy an hour between each Rome & Naples. I am here on the ERASMUS programme, a life long learning programme set up to give university students the opportunity to experience different cultures and learn new languages.

Unfortunately Cassino is not known for its university achievements but instead for its world famous “Abbazia” Monte Cassino. Myself not being a firm believer of anything religious I am not one to get excited about travelling up a mountain to see a famous monastery, however the landscape and not to mention the history behind Monte Cassino is phenomenal. 



The Abbey was founded in 529 and is situated at 519 meters above sea level, It has suffered years of destruction and has been reconstructed numerous times. In February 1944 the Abbey was flattened by the Americans & British after hearing the Germans were using the Abbey as hiding, unfortunately the Americans were wrong and many civilians were killed after the Germans had advised them to hide in the Abbey as it would be safe and wouldn’t be affected by battles.  This progressed into a long term battle throughout of the whole of Cassino.




The restoration was carried out from 1948 to 1956, it is said to be as close to the original building as possible. The Cassino War Cemeteries are the largest WWII Cemeteries in Italy. The cemetery contains over 5000 grave markers of soldiers that died in battles against the Germany arm.  It is the final resting place of the British, New Zealand, Canadian, Indian, Gurkha, South African, French, Italian, Polish, German and American casualties.

birmingham

  
Jumper: Topshop; Maxi Dress: Topshop; Bag: iOffer; Sandals: Office
On Thursday I met up with one of my favourite bloggers Claire from thejazzpad.com. We went on a nice shopping trip/lunch around my home city Birmingham. We always have a great time together, & this time was no different. Our day included my first experience of Wagamama, travelling up and down numerous escalators, standing outside Forever 21 praying for it to open now lol and having nice chats and making our selves at home with the friendly sales people of The Pop Store. – The photos make it look like a really horrible day! It was actually a lovely warm day and rained for a few minutes whilst we were indoors.

Spending Ban Update – Just a quick update on how I am getting on with the spending ban. I did mention at the bottom of the post that this shopping trip wasn’t included! But I still did quite well… until I reached The Pop Store. £15 brogues from New Look, £16 watch from Urban Outfitters, some tights and a plain jumper from Primark… so far so good. Then I reached The Pop Store got over excited by all the Wildfox and splurged on a £90 sweater… however, in my defence I got £15 student discount making its around £76. I am not going to apologise & I do not feel bad… but I am taking this as my last and final shop. From now on my whole life (as Big Brother is sadly over RIP) will be dedicated to saving money!!

Have faith in me!

new jewellery stands

  Jewellery Stands: Urban Outfitters

Introducing my jewellery stands (& a sneak photo of Zac Efron:p)

If you read my blog regularly you will know that I have recently had my bedroom redecorated, its all white now and I have been looking for some nice accessories for my rooms and I just love these two! I also need a nice image of some sought in the middle of my shelf, I literally have no ideas so send me some ideas!

bikini

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  Bikini bottoms: American Apparel; Bikini Top: Gift
These photos were taken in Sicily at an amazingly beautiful place called Alcantara Gorge, a small natural spring in the mountains where the water is -11°C. I’m wearing my favourite bikini of the summer, I really struggled finding a high waisted bikini but I ended up getting these bottoms from American Apparel and using an old bikini top of a friends. However, if I had ridiculous amount of money to spend on bikini’s I would have invested in one of the following:

What was you favourite bikini designs of the summer?

All on available at http://www.net-a-porter.com/

Back from Sicily

I’m back from Sicily after having the most amazing holiday! Very depressed to be home, but its time to catch up on some blogging.
Hope you all enjoyed the posts I prepared whilst I was away! Now that I am home I am preparing for my year abroad as I finally found accommodation. Not going to make this post long because I have lots of comments to reply to…

Give Away Winners:
1st prize goes to:
and 2nd too….

Congratulations! Will be contacting you both soon!

when in Rome…

So I am sunning it up in Sicily right now, but luckily for you I scheduled some posts.. nothing major just something to look at.

These are some photos of my boyfriend and I in Rome last summer…

NOTE: This is not a fashion post! Not a stylish holiday :)







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