Dear readers,

I have a lot in my mind right now. I want to start all over with blogging again. More professional. But I won't have time for it. My dual study will start in a few weeks and I don't know if I'm really ready for it to give up my fulltime job. And if I'm lucky enough I will find my very first own flat. Unluckily, without Niclas which depressed me a lot lately. So, I'm just looking forward for our trip together this year. We don't have any idea now where it will take us.

As we're looking for some destinations I just remembered the trip to Provence en France.



I remember the warm breeze in the air. The climate in the south is always different. You nearly smell the ocean. It was my study trip in 2012. We visited 5 places in the Provence to enjoy culture and to learn more about photography and arts. I can remember the colours of the flowers, the old architecture and the delicious food.



We stayed in Avignon, a really wonderful place to stay. Our hotel was near the famous Pont d'Avignon and there were always some festivals at the river. And the architecture was a feast for my eyes. I was blown away and couldn't get enough to see more.




Our next stop was Arles to visit the huge festival of photography and the historical art museum with the beautiful flower garden. I'd never seen so much art in one place before and I really felt it. But that's nothing at all. We really had the opportunity to feel it, therefore, we visited St. Remy, the hometown of Van Gogh. We were able to see his famous bedroom which he painted once.




The last two places we'd seen was the great village market of Camarque and the sandy beach of St. Marie de la Mer. You could buy everything at that market. But I recommend the delicious street food they were preparing it fresh right in front of you and the sweet cafés on the bridge. That feeling is unforgettable.


In St. Marie de la Mer you could try out fresh seafood and swim in the azur-blue ocean. We have to decide if we want to see the beach of Côte d'Azur or the beach fo St. Marie de la Mer. Even if we all decided to see Côte d'Azur our teacher wanted to go to St. Marie de la Mer. I had to admit it was very beautiful, but the water was cold. Luckily, the sand was white, soft and warm and the best part of it is that it wasn't full of tourists.

France is unbelievable beautiful. There is no reason to destroy it or terrorize the friendly people there. But not only France. This should be everywhere. So many countries. So many cultures. And so different. Respect and appreciate it.

Dear readers,

my family and I were on vacation the last days at the baltic sea on the german side. My parents are living in Germany for so long without knowing the baltic sea. Even my sister and I never been at the baltic sea before although we had way better plans for our vacations. We firstly planned a trip to the netherlands visiting my godfather who's my fathers best friends. Then mum wanted to visit her best friend in munich again like last year and while visiting her we could drive from munich to vienna. But my sister wished to see the beach, so we got the idea visiting some beautiful city at the baltic sea.



We already knew the weather would be miserable and as said the weather on the first day was rainy. But we won't let the mood down and we were looking for a restaurant instead of enjoying the harbour of Stralsund. I wanted to go to the Ozeanum as well, but it was closed as we arrived the city. But I wasn't disappointed as I got my dinner. I enjoyed grilled salmon on elderflowers sauce on chanterelles with rosemary potatoes. The salmon was wonderful but I wished they served it with another sauce. As it got later the weather got better and we finally could see the harbour of Stralsund.




The next day we drove to the isle Rügen. Our first stop was the city Bergen, but it was so boring. The city really has nothing interesting there. So we decided to change the location very soon and drove further to Sassnitz. It was cloudy but we read it will getting better so we enjoyed the city and booked a trip on the boat when it will getting better. Doing some sightseeing made us hungry and we enjoyed fish buns. I like to eat fish directly at the sea because it taste really fresh.




Our next stop was Sellin. My favourite stop of our small trip. The weather was wonderful as we arrived the city. We have to see the "Seebrücke" one of the sightseeing of the city. The beach here was sandy and some people were swimming there, but for me it's way too cold. But I took a lot of pictures.





It had relaxing days and I was happy we rounded our trip up with a stop in Hamburg where we went shopping and visited my godmother. We also found a gelato café, where they were selling rose ice cream with a macaron on top. I was a little bit disappointed of the form but it tasted so good.

           

After stressful weeks of work and study, the little trip with my family wasn't enough. But I need to save days for my next trip with my boyfriend. We didn't even decided for a destination now, but I wished for Tel Aviv, Israel, where one of my collegues is living there right now. It is really expensive mainly, when my boyfriend and I decided to move in together and having a trip to Vietnam next year. If only travel is for free, that would be wonderful.

I wish you all a safe weekend!

Dear readers,

the last phase of studying begins and I have to finish my project at work. I'm just sitting in front of my desktop and thinking a lot about vacation and beach. The nearest beautiful beach I know is only a couple of hours away. And it's still shitty weather here in germany. We've got may and it's still 10° outside. So, all I've got are my memories and fantasy.

I want beach so bad, but I have to think about my personal price limit and the cold weather in europe. And like I mention the next beautiful beach is just a couple of hours away. Maybe I will take a trip to the place where I was with Niclas in 2015. My birthday present for him a short trip to Amsterdam, where we also visited some of the beach places in the netherlands.



It was cold and windy. But the sun shined a lot. I love the fresh ocean breeze, it makes me feel a lot better and filled me with more power. The best part was the small cafés at the beach, where you can enjoy delicious coffee or hot chocolate. I remember some good restaurants there either. I told my mum about my thoughts and she just had the idea to celebrate the birthday of my father there. My family has a personal relation to wonderful netherlands.



I just can't wait until exam period is over and I can focus on looking for the next trip. But priority is my career, so I have to focus on exams and study. But I am pretty jealous of all my friends who are in vacation right now enjoying the sun and the beach.

Dear readers,

I was pissed after not getting those tickets for The Weeknd in Cologne for my sister as her birthdaypresent. It was pretty hard for me to have another idea what I could present her. She is a MakeUp lover and a huge korean fan. So part one was the calligraphy card with the Illuminate palette by bh cosmetics, but that wasn't enough. So I planned a trip to Hamburg for a shopping trip and enjoying Korean BBQ afterwards.



It was very cold in Hamburg, so my sister decided to stay in the mall for a long time and visit the shops outside later. I bought nothing. Even it's sale I didn't find anything. The special part is I discover the "creative section" at Urban Outfitters. But the stuff are really expensive.



But the reason visiting Hamburg was not the shopping part but rather the korean bbq. It was my first time so I let my sister ordering everything for us. The restaurant HanMi is very simple and huge. It was full of people, luckily we already make reservations. We start with filled steamed and fried buns. It was really delicious but I can recommend to begin with starters if you're deciding for korean bbq.




The bbq contains of two tablegrills, six side dishes (Kim Chi salad, cucumber salad etc.) and marinated meat. You could vary the dishes on your very own, so it's possible to have marinated meat or pure meat or even vegetarian. My sister thought we had to try the korean stew and I was worried about the mass we were eating.




I was definitely full after that meal, but I really can recommend korean BBQ as a group activity. It was a lot oof fun and you're discovering new cultures with friends.

xo, RubyliXious

Dear readers,

I'm working very hard at the moment. My agency is preparing a complete relaunch for a huge international brand and we all getting exhausted the longer we are working on that project. And since my boyfriend and I decided to move in together so we have to save a lot of money and therefore we have to cancel our vacation this year. We will end our apprenticeship this year and consider to have a little trip off the vacation-season to keep it affordable. We found a trip to Dubai for only 399€ pP with a lot of stuff inclusive. I love to travel but my only problem is to have money for travelling. But if Dubai will be as awesome as my trip with my sister to Abu Dhabi, I definitely want to check out Dubai with my boyfriend.



I can feel the warm breeze right now. The soft sand between my toes and the smell of different spices filling my nose.



Some people like snow, some people like green nature. I just need a blue sky, sand, a beach and really tasty food and I'll be the happiest human being on earth.

xo, RubyliXious

Dear readers,

as promised here comes part two of our trip to Cyprus. (Read part one)
We enjoyed the harbour city Girne very much. There were so many things to explore in the small city and we had to try out a lot of restaurants.




After spending a lot of time on the beach and in the harbour city Girne, we decided to book a historic sightseeing tour to learn more about this country. The tour contains a trip to two cities Salamis and Famagusta.





At Salamis you could visit the ancient ruin city.
Out tour guide tells us a lot of stories and myths about the place. As you know Cyprus is seperate in northern turkish half and southern greek half, but the history told us they were both connected somehow. And buildings like gyms and or vaporariums were influeced by the greek. Only 3% of the archeologic state was excavated, so that we just saw incomplete amphitheaters or broken buildings. Some of the statue were even stolen by british and swedish colonialists. However, it was really interesting. Part of the sightseeing tour in Salamis was also chapels and churches.



The second part was much more exciting than Salamis. Famagusta is known as a city for students. There were so many shops and restaurants, but we had to be part of the tour, so we didn't make a shopping tour. One of the things you always have in turkish countries are basars. There were a lot of possibilities to buy clothes very cheap, but I decided to buy accessories. Our tour guide also advised us to keep our hands of basar food. They have to be eaten fresh otherwise it tastes like shit.




The best part was the little trip to the ghost town in Famagusta with the most beautiful beach in northern Cyprus. I definitely had a caribbean feeling there, but because of the tour I didn't even thought about bringing bathing stuff with me. That was a real waste of a beautiful beach amid of a ghost town. The last part was to visit the old town of Famagusta. I really fell in love with this exciting city. The old town also offered a lot of shops, but I liked the Patisserie the most, so we stayed there until the tour ends. I never had so much opportunities to choose between sweets, cakes and icecream, therefore we had to try a lot of yummy stuff.



This was the most relaxing trip I've ever had. We'd done nothing but kept so many memories. As closure of the trip I could enjoy the sunrise in Istanbul as we were heading to Hannover. The last trip for the next months and I am recovered and ready to work and study again.

xo, RubyliXious

Dear readers,

I'm freezing right now. As we arrived the airport in Hannover I was shocked about the drop of temperature. For the last days it was about 30° for me and now I have to bear 9°. It was so wonderful guys. I enjoyed the trip very much as I always enjoy travelling with my boyfriend. This year we booked a trip to Kyrenia, Cyprus. I have to break my post in two parts otherwise it gets too long so don't miss part two.



Niclas and I had to work so much this year therefore I was so relieved as it was the end of august. Our trip started at our homwtown with the flight to Istanbul. We stayed only for 3 hours so there is no possibility to see the beautiful city. At least we arrived our hotel at 8pm and I was exhausted.

We actually booked a double room with sea view, but we were disappointed. The room got two seperated beds and no sea view as it was on the first floor. After an upgrade with to a modern room and a mountain view, our trip could finally begin.




This country is so fascinating. It's an isle. On one side you could enjoy the sea view on the other side there is the wonderful mountain scenery. Our hotel was very offside of the city, but it got its pool and its own bay.




We spent our first days at our hotel at the beach. We really needed this. Just relaxing without worries. And there I had this overwhelming feeling of joy. The sand under my feet and the warm sea breeze on my face. The water was warm even if it was october.



Beside the beach we had to visit the beautiful harbour city Girne and cost the delicious taste of seafood. Actually we wanted to book a sunset boat trip there, but our travel guide advise us against the trip because it could be too dangerous. It was nearly end of the season so it could be very dangerous with huge waves on open water.

But there was enough to see in Girne. We found a very nice restaurant at the harbour and of course we both ordered seafood. Fish, shrimps or calamaris were served with fresh salad and chips. As dessert Niclas proposed to find an ice cream shop, but I have to admit, the cyprian are terrible in producing ice cream.




We discovered a lot of small alleys and little shops. I didn't buy anything because most of the clothes or bags are fakes. They quality was really bad and it was expensive even it was just fake ones. But I decided not to spend so much money on this vacation so it wasn't really bad at all.

           

In part two I'll tell you about the trips to the cities Salamis and Famagusta. Don't miss it.

xo, RubyliXious

Dear readers,

who are the most important persons in your life?
Beside my family and boyfriend, my best friends are people I can't live without. They're always there, if you need them and they understand you. I just hate girls as friends, therefore I'm so thankful for my best friends. Understanding me and having fun with my crazy personality.

Since we all had jobs and studies, we were seperated in different cities and nearly haven't time for each other. Fabi is studying in Goettingen and Vivi is mostly on chamipnships all around the world. I'm really proud of my girls, but I miss them a lot.

This year we planned to spend a some days together. We're knowing each other for about 12 years now and our friendship still lasts like we were never seperated. Our first stop was in Goettingen.

This place is really lovely to stay. I was actually really often in Goettingen before, but I just visited some friends, who were studying there. As a city for students, Goettingen offers a lot of places to eat and to go clubbing. Admiring the view of old buildings beside eating is the best way to enjoy a city trip.
         


And the lovely old botanic garden was a highlight of our walk after brunch. It was very peaceful and the little greenhouse looked exactly like the conservatory of Hogwarts.
Three days seeing each other is pretty short and we had a lot to tell each other. But we enjoyed every second of it. I can't wait to plan the next quality time with my beloved girls.

xo, RubyliXious