My Holiday...pt 2

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How's it hanging??

So if you've been following my blog you'll know I went on holiday in July and wanted everyone to know what I got up to but because I went for 2 weeks and did quite a lot I didn't want to cram it all on one post so 2 posts ago I did a post called My Holiday...part 1 which was basically the first week of my holiday and this is a continuation of my holiday. Enjoy! :)

Saturday 25th July 2015 (Istanbul, Turkey)

Today we were going to go off and do our own thing but I didn't feel that up to it. The weather was soooo hot (not that I should be complaining haha) and I didn't feel up to it so whilst my family went off shopping I stayed on the boat. I walked around the boat for a bit, read some fashion books and played card games by myself...wow. That night was informal night so I wore a midi red dress and some brown sandals but before we ate we went to the pub that's on the boat where we did a pub quiz and I had Disaronno and coke <3

I had a sweet potato and cauliflower pasty, salad, pork with cheesy potatoes and veg and then lemon meringue pie.

Sunday 26th July 2015 (Istanbul, Turkey)

Today we woke up extra early because we went on an excursion so we could go see the Saint Sofia, the Blue Mosque and the Bosphorus Bridge. When we'd crossed the bridge we then got dropped off for 3 hours to go and visit the Spice Market and when we'd done we decided to wait under a tree and I got shit on...by a bird. Some say it's good luck :/ fingers crossed haha.

Tonight was informal night so I wore a black and white play suit and some white heels but I can't remember what I ate for my dinner but it was probably chicken haha.

Monday 27th July 2015 (Sea Day)

Because we couldn't go off board because it was a sea day, I decided to go and do some more laps so I fast walked 3 miles and then we went to go and watch the Imitation Game with Benedict Cumerbatch( or Cumberland Sausage as I call him haha) and honestly it was probably the best film I'd seen all year! 

Tonight was formal night and picture night so I decided to recycle my old prom dress (short black) with white heels and red lips :) I had a chicken salad, the leek and broccoli flan and then ice cream for dessert.

Tuesday 28th July 2015 (Marmaris, Turkey)

Today we walked around doing some shopping, I bought Turkish eye necklace, and we had a drink at a cute little cafe and as always there was lots and lots of sleepy cats <3 

When we got back on the boat we decided to watch The Theory of Everything and although I didn't think I'd understand it, but it was absolutely fascinating, Eddie Redmayne did an amazing job and as soon as the film had finished I went to the library and wanted to learn a bit more so I started to read The Origin of Everything :'D

Tonight was informal so I decided to wear a red cropped top with a floral pencil skirt and some sandals. I ate a mushroom tart, fish and veg and then ice cream.

Wednesday 29th July 2015 (Heraklion, Greece)

Again we walked around on our own for a couple of hours and because I didn't think it was really fair that I was restricting my sister because I was using her shoes, I bought some new black wedges for only 20 euros!!! That's like £15. 

Tonight was the last formal night so I thought I'd dare it and go with a white dress and my new black wedges which are soooo comfy to walk in! I had the salad, beef Wellington and the ice creams.

Thursday 30th July 2015 (Piraeus, Greece)

Today was soooo bloody hot (39 degrees c) and instead of a 30 minute walk from the boat to the main shopping centre, we decided to go on the 'Fun Train' which cost 5 euros and would drop us off and pick us back up!

We stopped at a little cafe and I had the best peach tea I've ever had and it came with free cake! Can't complain! :D haha. But there was a lot of pigeons (if you don't know I have a slight fear of the bastards) Then we couldn't hack the heat any more so had to re-treat back to the boat for an endless supply of orange and cranberry juice :)

Tonight was informal night so I wore a burgundy lace dress and my black wedges and had the seafood salad, chicken fricoses (?) with mash and veg and the chocolate crème brulee which was insane!

Friday 31st July 2015 (Sea Day)

Like it always has been when it's been a sea day, I walked 4 miles today (thought I'd push myself haha) and we had to very slowly start packing because we were going to leave tomorrow :'( we had to return the books back to the library and because we had a luggage allowance we had to be careful what we bought back and what we kept here. So I used my make up wipes, left my razor, left my broken shoes etc. 

I wore a black cami top with black trousers and my black wedges but I can't remember what I had to eat...awks. But we had to leave our suitcases outside of our cabin so they could be collected and transported outside ready for us to take them to the airport.

Saturday 1st August 2015 (Going home)

We had to wake extra early and fill our boots because we were going to be travelling all day :( We had to wait for our level that we were on to be announced that it was our time to leave and we then had to find our suitcases and queue for a coach to take us to the airport but we managed to snag the coach that had hardly anyone on it but the drive was only about an hour so wasn't too bad. 

Then we got to the airport, which was suuuper windy, and literally had to wait 3 hours for our plane to arrive and because there was about 100+ people getting on our flight, there wasn't any seats left so we had to sit on the floor and because we're a party of 6 we couldn't sit together either on the plane ride, which wasn't that bad (thank god for music). We arrived at Manchester Airport and our driver picked us up and took us home. So after over 10 hours travelling and only having breakfast I was very very very tired :/

But overall I had a very good holiday and just want to thank everyone who helped us at any point and my family for making memories that I'll never forget <3 <3

Thank you sooo much!!

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My Holiday...pt 1

Hey Guys!!

How's it hanging??

So for the majority of of July me and my family went on our holiday to the Mediterranean on our 9th cruise for 2 weeks. The weather had been predicted to be beautiful and we were all very excited to sit back and relax as we soaked up the beautiful weather. So here's what we got up to in my 1st half of the holiday:

Saturday 18th July 2015

So we had to wake up at stupid time but because I knew I'd be suuuuper cranky having 2 hours sleep, I decided to not sleep and watch films until the rest of my family woke up. It was then half 1. We drove to my nans where we were going to be picked up to drive us to Manchester Airport. We left my nans at 3. 

My view from the car on the way to the airport

Now I know some people  turn up at the airport about an hour before a flight but oh no not the Jansens. Our flight was at half 7 so we had about 3 hours to do absolutely nothing to do. The flight went well, although I absolutely hate flying, and we arrived in beautiful Venice. We then caught a coach which would take us to the port where out cruise ship would be waiting but because of stupid traffic and being as it was a Saturday, the drive that was supposed to take about an hour ended up taking 3 hours :/ Now if you've never been on a Cunard cruise before, what they have is themed nights with the choices either being informal or formal with formal being proper fancy and dressed up and informal slightly less dressed up. For example, on the formal nights I would wear a dress and heels whereas on the informal nights I would sometimes wear trousers or a play-suit and our first night was informal so I wore a khaki blouse, black cigarette trousers and some nude heels (and what I'll soon discover is that the shoes I bought for this holiday were very uncomfortable so I had to restrict myself to what I could wear as it might not go with the only pair of shoes I had left - I would have bought more but we had a weight limit :( ) For my dinner I had some fancy spring rolls then a salad then the cod and vegetables and for desert I had the apple strudel :P

Sunday 19th July 2015 (Zadar, Croatia)

Today was probably the only day that I got to wake up sort of late.8. We had our breakfast which was a buffet so you could have cereals, cooked breakfast and even cake!! haha. Then because the weather was completely gorgeous I decided to tan for about half an hour because I'm not the kind of person who can sit in hot weather like I have to be doing something so I'm surprised I lasted that long haha! We arrived in Zadar, Croatia but didn't get off the boat because we were feeling very sleepy and the view from our balconies was just breathtaking :) 

The view from our balcony

My sister <3

The foyer of the boat.

Now because of the weight limit I couldn't really bring anything to read with me but luckily there was a library on board so I decided to read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Tonight was the 1st formal night so I decided to wear a black maxi dress and some black strappy high heels which were my holy grail because they were sooo comfy. I had asparagus with egg and hollandaise sauce then practically the best turkey dinner I've ever had! Then ice creams for pudding :)

Monday 20th July 2015 (Dubrovnik, Croatia)

Now today was the 1st day we stepped off the boat since we got on and to get on and off the boat you have to have a card that needs to be scanned and your photo shows up of your face and basically has some details on it. Anyway, it was very very very hot today - 34 degrees c (93.2f) We sat at a beautiful cafe and had a drink whilst we wrote our postcards. 

Game of Thrones - Cerseis walk of shame was filmed down those steps!!

We then went back onto the boat and nearly everyday they had a relatively new film on and today it was Taken 3 which if anyone knows me, I sort of have a soft spot for Liam Neeson :) and it was such a good film haha.

Then it was an informal night so I wore an old Henry Holland dress I've had for about 2-3 years with the black strappy heels and I had broccoli soup, salad, fish and vegetables and the crepes Suzette which were incredible!

Tuesday 21st July 2015 (Sea Day)

So today was a sea day which means that we couldn't get off the boat because we were going to be travelling all day to our next destination so instead of tanning or sitting down and doing nothing, I discovered that there was a deck on the boat, 3 if you're interested, where it was accessible for people to run/walk around and if you went round 3 times it was equal to 1 mile so I fast walked 2 miles which took about half an hour. I didn't fancy watching the film that was on today so I carried on reading Harry Potter and used some of the internet. The thing with the internet out in the middle of the sea is that it's obviously not as fast as when you're sitting at home and because we'd been on this boat before, we sort of got an upgrade and we were gold members...hahaha!! which means we got more free internet basically and some other privileges like invites to drinks with the captain etc so we got 2 free hours each. Then the night came and it was formal so I wore an lbd with black strappy heels. I had chicken satay sticks for starter, pork, mash and veg for my main and the ice creams again but they were different flavours.

Wednesday 22nd July 2015 (Mykonos, Greece)

Today the idea was to get off the boat and instead of having some tour guide go round and show us the tourist attractions, we thought we'd go on our own and have a wonder about. But we couldn't :( Apparently the weather was too windy for the boat to be able to dock properly and safely so we had essentially another sea day. So me, my brother and sister played scrabble, I read more of Harry Potter and then we watched The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel which was super cute and a proper happy film.

It was then informal night and I wore a dark blue blouse with some patterned trousers and my sisters white chunky heels and I had chicken consome, salad, chicken with goats cheese and veg and the crème brulee for pudding. By the way, this is where the selfies started appearing haha.

Thursday 23rd July 2015 (Rhodes, Greece)

Today we decided that we wanted to do our own thing again so we walked around and again it was very hot and such a stunning place <3 we then had a drink in a beautiful cafe over looking the square. 

We then went back onto the boat and I finished Harry Potter. Tonight was informal night and I wore a black caged crop top with a pencil skirt and my black strappy heels. I had beef consome, salad and Beef Wellington - which was sooooo good :D

Friday 24th July 2015 (Izmir, Turkey)

The weather was very hot again but very sticky - the kind of weather that basically pisses you off! haha but that was completely distracted by the amount of dogs and cats that were walking about :3 I literally fell in love.

Then when I was getting ready to go for our meal I was walking around with my black strappy heels on and just as I was about to take them off, they broke :'( Like the heel came out of the shoe but there's no point in repairing them because they'll only get broken again plus they were only £20! So obviously I was pissed off so there wasn't any selfies and it was informal night so I wore my green blouse again with my black trousers and my sisters white heels. I ate chicken, mango and avocado salad, a bean ragout with a potato cake and ice cream.

And that's it...for now.

Obviously this post would be soooo long if I included all posts of my holiday so I'm going to split it up into 2 separate posts. I hope you enjoy looking and reading this post and stay posted...hahahaha!!!! :'D

Thank you sooo much!!

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