Last weekend

Last weekend turned out to be a very interesting one. On Friday we had a work event in which we did a libdup video of the song Don't Stop Me Now by Queen. A libdup video is a video in which you lip sync to the music and then dubbing it over the original song. We were around 40 of us and we all had a short part of the song to sing and act. We were outdoors in Rotterdam acting like fools with all kinds of props. Many random people kept asking us what show we were preparing! After a few trials we did the final trial from start to end and the video was filmed. The video is very funny but it looked very professional. The evening didn't stop there and we continued with dinner and some dancing till the early hours of the morning.

With some of my colleagues

Sunday was a lovely warm sunny day and we didn't have any plans. Until my fiancee decided that we should take a trip to Antwerp and buy our wedding rings. I liked the idea, firstly for a woman it's very hard to reject an offer of buying jewelry and secondly because I knew that I would enjoy spending a few hours basking in the sun at some Belgian cafe. The day turned out to be success. The rings were ordered (eek!) and the sun kept shining all day long.

Enjoying the typical mussels in Antwerp

The week continued on a good note - my sister in-law gave birth to a lovely baby boy. We now have a little one in the Dutch side of the family which will surely change the dynamics of the family.

Autumn colours

Looking forward to see if this weekend has the same amount of nice and fun activities, but I doubt I will be getting any more jewelry or additional family members!!

What do you like best in autumn?

What do you like best in autumn?

Nature's colours

Hot cocoa

Crisp air

Cuddling

Shopping for new clothes

New series' starting on TV

Autumn is definitely not my favourite month however since I live in a country in which Autumn is a real and proper season I have learnt to love it.

And if you want the autumn colours in the kitchen, try this recipe out.

[Image Credits: Love Potion @ Pinterest]

Marking the end of the bbq'ing season

To end the bbq'ing season, last weekend we had a bbq in the garden. We ate more than we should and relaxed in the warmth. As the sun started setting we put on the fire in the vuurkorf which is a sort of an open air stove. The flickering of the fire is just one of those things that I don't manage to stop looking at. At some point we were joint by 2 beautiful swans. The picture will be in my memory for a long time.

Now that bbq has been cleaned and stored for the winter season, the temperatures rose , just to tempt us to want to use it again!

Autumn is in the air

This week there is a feeling of autumn in the air. I’m actually looking forward to it, surely better than being in a summer that never was. Autumn is a season that is non-existing in Malta, where you only get summer and. Instead in the Netherlands we have a season which is coloured in orange, with leave carpeted roads and very string wings (this I don’t really like). It’s a good pre-amble to the cold winter days.

I’m also looking forward to updating my wardrobe with clothes to keep me warmer, or really just to make me feel good!

 

[Image Credits: Pinterest (April Rose)]

Awaiting Autumn

Even though it's still officially summer, summer is already history in Holland. The autumn feeling is in the air and green leaves are being shed. I'm waiting excitedly for the weeks to come when the roads will be a shade of orange, kind of an eternal sunset.

I am really a summer person, you have to be if you are to enjoy the Mediterranean weather I grew up in. Autumn doesn't really exist in Malta, extreme hot summers change to mild winters without trees shedding their leaves. I never knew what I missed, but a few years living in Nothern Europe changed that. I'm now looking forward to the coming months, even if I'm already mourning summer!

We've been having stormy weather all of August, so bad that yesterday's wind broke a tree trunk in our road. Maybe now you can imagine why I'm sure summer is over in this part of Europe!

[Image Credits: *Shan*]