Green turns red and to yellow eventually

As autumn is working very hard to get itself noticed, I can't help myself but to enjoy the shortening days and the trees and plants changing shades. Soon the trees will be empty and the bushes will be brown. So for now, let's enjoy this dance of colors!

♥ This is one of the churches in the town I live in and I am in love with the vegetation growing on it! The red leaves were last week, aren't they pretty! ♥

♥ As it was at the end of last summer. ♥

♥ The same church, with focus on the leadlight window you can see when peeking inside through the small window. It is striking me how I managed to take two pictures that are very similar with a two month difference. ♥

♥ Cute fluffy wool pumpkins. awww! Saw them at the town fair. ♥

♥ Sunday outfit. Simple long black dress (Jane Norman), Leather jacket against rising coldness (Tally Weijl) and the usual boots (van Haren). ♥

♥ Pictures taken on an afternoon walk. ♥

Sweet cold October

♥October has started. The season of cosiness, shortened days, pumpkins, mushrooms and acorns!♥

Sunday brought a super cute autumn fair to town. Little stands were selling home made breads and honeys and lots of adorable brocant home decorations. The market was small scaled, but totally adorable. Organized in the backyard of a farm, semi in the barn, semi outside. The (possible) last rays of sun of the year made all the colors even brighter.

♥ lovely little bed side tables we bought (are being painted atm ♥ lanterns hanging from the willow ♥ decorative laundry drying between trees ♥ brocant home deco and jewelry stand ♥ baskets full of signs of autumn; pine cones, corns and acorns ♥ "Hi nice you were here bye" ♥


♥ Flowers, berries and an apple. Everything looks better when the sun lays its shine on it. ♥

♥ Even Animal Crossing celebrates autumn with the Acorn Festival! Collecting acorns and donating them to Cornimer makes him give you presents, which are mushroom furniture! (mush stand, mush lamp, mush chair, much closet, mush bed, mush tv, mush dresser, mush table and mush stool) ♥

Then what really made the Sunday complete was a nice walk in the woods near my childhood home. With my brother we looked for chestnuts. The edible ones were really small and still immature, so no chestnut paste this week. We looked for beechnuts and hazel nuts, but I guess it really still is too early for good nuts. However, the saw the beautifulest mushrooms, in a variety of colors; red (of course) and black and purple!

♥ After one and half hours in the woods, mom awaited us at home with home made pancakes. That is just THE perfect finish for an autumny walk in the woods on a Sunday in October♥

Germany - Cologne

♥For our 3 year anniversary, BF and I went to Cologne (Germany) for a weekend.
We stayed three days and two nights and the room he he booked was the Pink Suite. How awesome!?
Ow, and this is a newspaper I picked up in the ICE in Germany.♥

♥Back side of the Dom in moonlight.
The Dom of Cologne, situated next to the Hauptbahnhof, is a black cathedral. Its walls really are black.♥

♥Into the holiness.♥

♥First morning, Frühstuck (breakfast) was in this lovely authentic looking breakfast place.
First day I took a 'normal breakfast' (bread, jam, egg and hot chocolate),
but the second day I went all German with a 'Royal Breakfast' (bread, different kinds of meat, egg and also hot chocolate).♥

♥Walked into a random church on Sunday where the mass was still going on, so we visited its small garden.
I love how church 'gardens' have tomb stones.♥

♥Shopped so lovelily this weekend! This FUCK YOU YOLO dress is so wrong, it's awesome. I totally love it. (Nameless shop)♥

♥Other than that I shopped two more black dresses, a velvety one and one with leather straps; the ornamented leggings on the pic above (New Yorker); a fantastic bag (also in the pic above, Jumex); a pair of earrings (will surely be picted in a next post); a bow-belt with studs. Also tried on a billion high heels, but none of them were shaped for my feet.♥

♥Walking across the Neumarkt suddenly 1600 Pandas happen. WWF is asking for attention for the small amount of Pandas that are left in the wild, which is tragic of course, but the 1600 plastic pandas in the middle of the city center made me smile. They look so happy to get cuddled by all the people!♥

New purchases

As promised; here is an "I-shopped" of my vacation.

♥ The golden Little Diva beauty case, the soft pink Guerlain bag (to contain my
little Miss Dior bottle) and the leopard eye cover I already had,
they were in my big zebra suitcase. New are the tights and the black lacy necklace. ♥

♥  The necklace was actually not bought in Hungary, but just before (H&M).
Under it is one of a series of three black notebooks (Søstrene Grene). ♥

♥ My first-of-the-season LBD with studs (or glitters). Yay, I love this one. I also wore it for traveling.
(super unknown brand and even unknown-er shop in Hungary)♥

♥ Not sure whether to call this a sweater or a dress, but anyway I love it.
The details on the back are brilliant too; little bows and tiny golden jewels hanging from them.
Unknown brand and shop. ♥

Other than that I shopped a lovely set of earrings in shape of massive silver crosses, which will surely pop by in my blog at some point. Also a new watch, that has a little bit of a vintage look, leather strap that goes around the arm three times and golden studs. Also, them most expensive of my purchases is a dress that I am wearing as I am writing this; black, tight, fierce. It reminds me of a military air hostess dress (uhh.. there is no such thing is there?)

Travel Journal

This is my Journey Diary. It is the 20^th of August, 2013. I welcomed myself to the country of my ancestors, the country of bats and dark mythical creatures. I'm in Eastern Europe; Hungary.

Day 2.

Mostly resting today. Me and my crew (read; me and my Love) must have slept about 20 of the 24 hours. Activity only during breakfast, lunch and dinner time. And late at night. Tomorrow we are expecting adventure.

♥ When suddenly a wild animal appeared and we got photo bombed without noticing until we arrived back on deck (in our room) later that night. ♥

 

Day 3. Adventure.

Full of energy, we stared the day with a swim and the most refreshing shower we had in days. After lunch we explored Gyöngyös, a small town nearby. The bumpy bus ride alone was an adventure already. In town I bought lovely cute stuff while shopping. (“I-Shopped” later on.)

♥ In front of the church presbytery (book store nowadays) ♥

Post-Dinner. We climbed uphill in search of a lookout point and we found this picturesque watch tower, built around 1900.

Today I am Rapunzel, but my hair does not reach all the way down yet.

Sun sets so early in this far away land. As far as I could see, the last rays of sun were laying themselves down on the hills and cities around. Fog rises, night falls soon.

Returned safely to deck. I am satisfied with everything we have conquered today.

Day 4.

Nothing exciting happened today, other than a short climb down to the river. Lots of resting, enjoying the quietness inside and the small walks up and down to the dinner area. Prepared for tomorrows trip.

5th day.

Today's quest for beautiful scenery brought us to a small village nearby. A part of the trip was with a local small diesel train, which was way too adorable. Closed wagon one way and open wagon the other way.

♥ When I was little my grandparents had brought me to this place
and what I remember most is the little train. ♥

Our destination was the castle ruins of Kisnána. This place has a rich history and was massively restored during the last century.

♥ These are taken by myself ♥

♥ This is also taken by me, around 1900, before restoration. source. ♥

Day 6.

Failed attempt of locating another ruin in the woods nearby due to horrible path marking. No picture.


Day 7.

Last full day at this location. Morning started with a succeeded attempt to locate the ruins of Bene. Some of its walls are restored, but still half covered by dirt and all sorts of flora and fauna (so many lizzards!).

♥ Reconstruction of the Bene Castle. source. ♥

This place put me in a romantic mindset of long lost times. Of a little square, surrounded by walls, with wooden towers and pets all around. The castle had not been large, but did have several rooms dedicated to residence.

Day 8. Inter-country travel.

After lunch, we packed our belongings and continued our journey to the south to visit relatives. Trip was long and exhausting, but it made it even more relaxing to sink into our freshly prepared bed.

Day 9. In the south.

Wandered through town. This place is weird. Rich and poor are so clearly visible and yet so mixed. The inner city is being renewed, which looks really good. Even the restaurant we ate at in the evening was new. A cute, modern, Italian restaurant (finally somewhere to eat pesto!).

♥ Decorations in the shopping street. ♥

Day 10.

Full day of shopping and eating melons. Hungary has the fantasticestest water melons in the universe. Not even near to what is sold in our super markets at home; so full of taste and bright red flesh!

Other that that, shopping until our feet were sore.

♥ With all my shopping bags and plenty of awesome stuff in them. ♥

I will dedicate another post to my shoppings.

Day ended with fried cheese. Me and my crew are fully satisfied.

Final day. The travel back home.

Today I drank infinitely more coffee than I have in the past six months, as I started my day with a small cup with clouds of cream and beaches of sugar. In the plane I tried another sip, which -for once- was fairly okay. I usually don't drink coffee at all.

It is nice being in my own country again. I recognize the fashion, things are not broken and the trees are green!

This ten days journey was very relaxing, I saw the beautiful scenery that I was longing for. However, the search for supernatural creatures has led to only small clues; lots and lots of bats at night, legends of dragons living in the mountains around Kisnána (no proof was found, not even in the well) and the coat of arms of the village to which we had moored our ship:

♥ The weapons of the region with a depiction of the moon and the sun
and their relations to wolves, obviously hints towards werewolves. ♥

But honestly, I am happy to go back to my own warm nest, my home, my bed, my bunnies and my luxury life.