Cambridge!

Hiya, 

I went to Cambridge a while ago with my cousin Corine to visit my sister who has been there for a few months now.
Here's how it went:

On Friday we took a plane from Eindhoven to London Stansted, where we arrived around seven thirty pm. We took a train to Cambridge and arrived at the super cute Bed & Breakfast where we had booked a room for three nights.

Picture by Corine

It was literally the cutest pub you’d ever see. It was the perfect English place to go to for a weekend of Cambridge, I think. First we weren’t supposed to have our own bathroom, but we got upgraded and had a little showerroom after all! There was stuff to make tea with on our room as well, which was very British obviously.

Cute little bed

We kind of made ourselves at home and went to bed pretty early, because the next day we were going to meet my sister in town!

We had a lovely and simple but delicious breakfast on Saturday morning and went to Cambridge shortly after that. Seeing my sister again was super awesome! She had been there for a while so she knew the way and cute places where we could get coffee.
We bought tickets for a guided tour through town and while we were waiting for it to begin, we went to a bookshop. Which was really awesome because I love bookshops and this one was huge and had all sorts of Doctor Who things! I bought a TARDIS box filled with a hundred Doctor Who postcards!

We had coffee at a pretty cute place and I ate a huge Jammie Dodger.

The sweet woman who was our guide took us to all the colleges (we weren’t allowed to go into any of them because of exams). We did go into King’s college chapel, which was amazing and huge.

We went shopping for the remainder of the afternoon. I bought the perfect brogues which I’ve been searching for for an eternity. After walking around town since 9 am we were a little tired and decided to go to Evensong at King’s College, where that awesome boy choir sings (you know, at Christmas?). It was really beautiful, their voices filling the whole building, reaching up the high ceiling.

After having enjoyed a lovely “proper” hamburger, we went to Sainsbury’s to get some food for the next day. I found a super cute kid’s Doctor Who magazine with a plastic Sonic Screwdriver.

The next day was our last full day. We went to a church in the centre of the town where all the students of Cambridge have their own student service. I had a Flat White and a Chelsea Bun at Fitzbillie’s and after that we went to the Fitzwilliam museum. I’m not really a painting person, but it was pretty interesting to check it out.

We took it easy that afternoon and had a little picnic on Jesus’ Green. We also climbed the St. Mary's church tower and after we found out that my sister’s bus wasn’t going to come anymore, we had a cup of tea at our Bed & Breakfast. 

View from St. Mary's tower

Brogues from Clarks

Monday was our last day and we just sat in the lovely sun the whole morning before getting on the bus again. It was stupid that I had to say goodbye to my sister again, but we had an amazing time. She’s coming home soon, so that’s good too!

I hope you enjoyed reading about my awesome trip :)

This song was the one I listened to while I was in bed trying to ignore the sounds of the pub just below us:

By the way, I'm going to see him (Sin Fang) live next Friday, *happy dance*.

See ya!

Love,
Mia

Lost Pictures of Snow

Hey there internet,

About a month ago my precious world called The Netherlands was white. Unfortunately I lost my SD card and therefore I lost my pictures.

Good news: I FOUND THE SD CARD

So here are the lost and late pictures of my view

Love,
Mia

Hello Autumn

Autumn colours! Coat, dress, tights from h&m (not very interesting, huh)

New shoes from Clarks

In the forest near our home is this weird place with toys and gnomes

We have no idea who put these things here, but it looks really cute and it has been there for so long!

Thanks for taking the time again :)

Love,
Mia

Sweet! A new pair of shoes!

Hi!

A few days back my sister went to the thrift store and found some beautiful shoes. They were a bit too big for her so she asked me if I wanted them. She took them with her (after all, who would leave shoes that cost only three euros all alone in a shop?) and I tried them on. They are also slightly too big for me, but I can at least walk in them.

It was a bit rainy this morning, but during a short sunny period of time I was able to make some pictures with my sister Mayke. She was kind enough to help me out by making pictures of me. 

Meet Mellow, the sweet yet slightly slow pony who lives in a nice meadow behind our house. 

Miep also wants to know what's going on

Moomin and Sopje are very curious creatures! 

девушка (Little Girl in Russian) (My sister likes everything Russian) and Alice are a bit shy and stay in the background

Hi Floortje!

I hope you have a great day and that your weather wherever you are is better than it is here in The Netherlands!

Love,
Mia

For the love of Shoes

Hey everyone!

Finally. On thursday the 17th of march, my lovely shoes, (which I ordered at Urban Outfitters, as you can read here) arrived. I've been wearing them (almost) non stop ever since. I love them so much, they're absolutely perfect!



It's a while ago that I bought these shoes. And in the meantime I bought some other shoes :)

Of course I have more shoes, because I am a little bit addicted to shoes. I didn't photograph all my shoes, I've got too many.





You must recognise these! (I love them!) (h&m) (Probably ten euros)




H&M again :) (They were about fourty euros)




Other shoes, can't remember where I got them..


Love,
Mia

PS: This is the last shoe-post for a while :)

No idea what this post's gonna be about

Hey!

Today I´m going to talk about randomness. I really don´t know where this is going to lead us to.

First I would like to thank Mirjam (the other Mirjam, not me) for commenting on one of my posts. I am glad to inform you, and all my readers, that you were the first to comment!! A huge thank you for you (here it comes:)

THANK YOU!!

I did thank you in real life, but now I realise that it wasn't enough. You have no idea how much I appreciated it :) So thank you.

Today Term 4 started. I hate that, I'm nearly going to cry. At first I was happy: it's the last Term of this year that's been really hard! But then I thought: I've finally just got used to the idea of being a 5th year student and I kind of like our class. I don't really talk to the majority of the students, but I've got used to them. I know what I can expect and how to respond to things they say. I'm just saying that I hope things won't be too different next year, with the exams coming up and everyting.
Thus, my feelings about the very last Term of this year are mixed. Very mixed, confusing and annoying. Don't get me wrong: I hate school and I love recess of course! I just don't like changing of my environment. It's weird, I know.

Something else that keeps bothering me lately is my hair. I love the colour and everything, but my hair kind of died. All these dead ends sticking out on places where they shouldn't and that happens more frequently these days. I've made an appointment with hairdresser next Saturday, hoping that I can hold on that long. I don't suppose I will chew off my hair within this week, so I'm confident so far.

I'm nervous because of my grades, I have no idea what to expect of them. And that is all I'm going to say about school now. If you want to know more about my schoolwork and how I'm coping; e-mail me and we'll talk privatly where I can scream and stamp my feet at the right time in the conversation. (obviously I didn't mean talking privatly online, but in real life, or I would still not be able to stamp my feet)

Recently I bought The Sims Medieval. I like it very much, but I was afraid I'd get addicted to it. Turns out I'm immune for it and my sister's playing it while I'm writing this, and probably playing it when you read this. She's not used to gaming, I am.
No, I'm not addicted to games. Never have been. I'm addicted to shoes. I used to be addicted to hats, but that changed slowly from 'I need a new hat' to 'hats are nice' to 'I need shoes that suit the hats I have' to 'I need shoes'. It'll probably change to dresses, to skirts, to jeans, to cardigans. It'll never stay this way for long, which is a good thing 'cause I'll have a lot of shoes if this addiction doesn't end soon...
I will not bore you much longer with shoes though, I've made too much shoe related posts lately. I'll move on to something else, but I'll have to think of something.

In fact; I'm going to think of something right now,

Much love for my dead hair and shoe-addiction,
Mia

PS: I've got just one shoe-post coming up, guys, sorry!