botanic garden

I have been very very bad with updating my blog for which I sincerely apologise. I know it's no excuse but I'm busy with work, six days a week is no fun. There is that promised flower post, all of these were taken in Edinburgh botanic garden and the house down there might just be very close to my dream house. I love botanic gardens, I'm not a big gardener myself but I can appreciate the colourful beauty around me. Botanic gardens are what I imagine paradise to look like.

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Edinburgh

After being abroad for 2 weeks I had plans to travel in the UK for a few days starting with Scotland and Edinburgh. We weren't very lucky with the weather it was rainy, surprise surprise, but it was beautiful. We just walked about and went to a botanic garden. A post coming up soon on that, you will be overwhelmed with a lot of flowery shots, literally. The pics of the little jams and the cute pastel shop aren't actually related but they fitted this post better than a plant one. We only had very limited time in Edinburgh, I was actually quite disappointed with the Edinburgh Uni, I either didn't find it or it just really is quite ugly. Well Im not doing masters there now am I. I might actually change my mind, the city is cute apart from the rain. Again, I apologise for the spacing and everything, I cried begged and kneeled but blogger just won't accept it. Very bad behaviour, stop it.

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Albufeira

My Birthday day! Went to Albufeira, the closest town to my hotel to "celebrate." It was quite a charming place with these lovely colourful streets, it felt very positive. I had the best but also the quickest melting raspberry icecream in a long time. Didn't even taste like icecream, more like crushed frozen raspberries. As I can't seem to find the proper name for this I'll leave you with a recipe on how to make a summery raspberry cocktail.

You will need:

70g of raspberries

150ml of milk

25g of sugar

a few ice cubes

Blend the raspberries then add milk and sugar and mix again. Allow to stand for 5 minutes then serve in a tall glass over crushed ice.

Easy and healthy.

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Lisbon delicacies

Hey guys, one more update from Lisbon. We stopped to have lunch, I was persuaded by comments like: You're only here once and so I decided to treat myself to a real restaurant meal. As it was my Birthday week and all. After I was looking over the menu for about 10 minutes, which was the longest of us three, (to be fair I'm always the one that takes the most time before ordering food) and finally decided to go for something I have never had before. Mr. Octopus. Yes, I had octopus. After the initial ugh, am I really to eat this thing, I overcame myself and tried the first tentacle (I despise the word tentacle, it somehow reminds me of testicle) and despite this it was actually tasty! So yeah, my first encounter with Mr. Octopus.

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