First of all, I took a trip to the Greek island of Evia, on a walking holiday with my parents. It was amazing! A welcome week of sunshine (and lots of high winds too), amazing food and meeting new people. We walked to some amazing places, including a totally secluded valley, a gorge, the ancient roman marble quarry (with columns still there), a winery and lots of challenging and beautiful mountains! One of the many local foods that I tried was Evian honey, which with Greek style yoghurt is my new favourite breakfast. However, I was not such a fan of Ouzo! But the trip was fantastic, never to be forgotten, and I would wholeheartedly recommend a holiday with Exodus who organised it down to the tiniest detail! You barely had to make any decisions, so despite being active every day, I was able to totally switch off.
This break from reality was sorely needed as the following 3 weeks were my last ever at university, full of finishing assignments, doing my final assessments and, of course, celebrating with my friends.
The final celebration was a spur of the moment trip to Amsterdam with Claire. We went for 3 nights (4 days) staying in a basic hotel in the heart of the city (and also basically in the red light district...) and packed in as much as we possibly could! We went to Madame Toussaud's, Anne Frank's house, the Rijksmuseum, the Sex museum, the Van Gogh museum, hired bicycles for a day, on a coach trip to see villages, windmills, cheese and clog making and, of course, shopping! And once again, there was lots of amazing food right on the doorstep of the hotel.
In other news, Winchester Fashion Week is finally under way! After so much build up, I am very much looking forward to the events.
Yesterday I helped at the Brooks Fashion show which was good fun, and today I ventured back to the Vintage Fair and was once again entrapped by the amazing things! I bought a leather bag and a lovely soft patterned scarf! (Even after having told myself that I would not succumb...)
and this set of tea cups and saucers.
I also got to talk to a lot of the store holders in preparation for writing a blogpost about the event for the Winchester Fashion Week blog, including Ellie LaCrosse, owner of sensitive skincare range Betty Buff. After a lovely chat, she offered me a (large) sample pot of Sugar Scrub to try out and review, which I shall be doing later today, so keep an eye out for that post!
I was pleased to see lots of new stalls at the event, like Dolly Anna Does and The Cherry Closet, as well as some of my old favourites including Little Old Me, Classic Vault, Little Treasures and Winchester's very own Charming Magpies. There were also some slightly different stalls like Deborah Dalton's handmade millinery and Vintage in Print which had mounted prints of fashion photography and vintage Vogue covers.
So as you may guess, I am totally shopped out! Oh, wait, I'm going shopping in Southampton tomorrow... is this the definition of shopaholic?!
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