Llandudno

I was lucky enough to have another long weekend in the beginning of the year and this time we decided to go to Llandudno. It is a seaside resort town up in North Wales where Mr. Special used to frequent with his parents when he was a kid. So while I was discovering the town he was rediscovering it.

The drive up to North Wales is always so scenic and pretty :)

We stayed at a fancy Spa hotel in Deganwy and were lucky enough to have an evening meal included. So went all out :D started with crab and prawns. hmmm... it wasn't bad :D but don't think I'd have it again :D The crab tastes fishy :D Mr. Special always hates it when I try something different than my usual taste (I don't venture too far though) because most of the time I don't like it :D

The inner courtyard reminds me of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills :D

The relaxing room before or after a treatment

The day we picked to go exploring was unfortunately windy so couldn't enjoy the long pier or the seafront which is very similar to Aber :D

Love this hotel, it looks like strange dark events are occurring in there .

One of the attractions of Llandudno is the Great Orme. It is a mini mountain with lots of sheep (we are in Wales) and great views to the town. It also has a mine that you can visit but we were there out of season so it was unfortunately closed. So we just had the pleasure of walking around :) (in lots of sheep poo - didn't realise that until we were back at the hotel).

Why did the sheep cross the road?

The town itself I think looked like in a time capsule. It had a nice feeling to it, apart from the cold wind. Can definitely see why it's a tourist hotspot during the summer. There are quite a few Alice in Wonderland statues dotted around the town and there was supposed to be an App to find the trail or something but we couldn't get the app working :( so we just wondered around aimlessly looking through the wonderful sweet and bric a brac shops. Saw the prettiest Wetherspoons in Britain (imo so far :D ) but decided to have lunch in an american style place. And yes again I tried something out of my comfort zone (pulled pork) and didn't really love it :D It was their own barbecue sauce that wasn't to my taste :D But they defo made up for it by offering popcorn as a snack while you wait for your food. 

On our way back we went past the Conwy water gardens for the Dutch Pancake House. We have been there a few years back and the pancakes were ahmazing.... lots of different (savoruy) flavours that you have to look really hard to find in Britain for some reason :( and it was closed for the winter :( :( :( :(  so sad... but! We decided to look around on the grounds a little bit more and discovered the freaking Water Gardens! Last time we toured the fish and pond shop thinking that was it but oh no :D They have otters and Capibaras behind the building on the short nature trail. How did we miss it last time??? (there are signs).

What's up duck?

The coolest haircut ever?

And back homebound :)

Remember again!

The 5th November fireworks were held at the Rugby club again this year. And this time to avoid waiting in the cold for a long time we decided to get there about half an hour or so before the display. 

There was a burger van outside this time (last year it was inside they were serving and basically ran out just as we waited in a looong queue - we got the last burger). There was a mother with her small child (6-7?) in front of us and at one point she asked us to mind her kid while she runs to say something to her husband... oooooooook we'll be nice. Awkward AF! :D it seemed like forever since she was gone and I thought what if she doesn't come back? What if the kid gets scared and wants to go look for his mommy? 

It was our turn to order just as the fireworks display started so I was trying to take pics - boomerangs and eat at the same time :D It was a great show! Much impressed :)

And then it was over... It felt much quicker this year, although I think the actual fireworks display was better. So as last year we stayed on later in the park to play with sparklers :D

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Ophelia

A few years ago when I was happily sunbathing in Corsica Aber had a huge storm that basically ripped the promenade to bits. We've always had big waves here and there but nothing quite like that until Hurricane Ophelia rolled into town. Even I managed to get out of the house to go and watch the powerful mother nature playing with the sea:

Nothing's going to stop a true sportsman! Not even a hurricane!

The next 2 pics are taken within seconds of each other and a second later my feet were soaked! Mind you it was quite warm water :D luckily no cold symptoms after this...

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Pink hair don't care

I've been wanting to dye my hair pink for a long time, but it's not exactly suitable for a "proper adult" is it :( and I'm not even talking about full neon pink or anything like that, just a little hint of it, like rose gold. 

So finally I thought hey my poor little hair haven't seen a hairdresser in forever, and I don't really fancy screwing it up all on my own. In case it does turn out to be neon pink :D And what perfect time to do it than before my 2 week holiday (so it can fade off before going back to work if it's too intense - always thinking of damage control :D )

And voila!

Really nice me thinks. So went to meet my fam at the airport and they didn't say anything about my pink (ish) hair... ooooook is it really that bad? So I plucked my courage up and asked hey, what'ya think? And the honest answer was: Is this new? Have you not had pink hair before? Huh, didn't even notice it was diffrent :D

Nice...

I really love it but it washes away so quickly :(

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Hello Hygge

So with all the backlash with My Little Box there were a few suggestions under their facebook page that the frustrated people recommended subscribing to instead and I found the HYGGEBOX.

It is more expensive than MLB but you obviously get much more and more diverse products. 

It claims to be wellbeing and happiness in a box. And I think it might just actually be that. It has things that are practical to use and other items that just bring joy!

My first box happened to be a Hot Chocolate box! 

So what was in it? 

• A BIG Flake bar, bigger than the one you can buy in shops! normally these type of boxes have the smallest one available
• Hot Chocolates DUH :D 4 different varieties: Milk Choc+, Dark Montezuma Giant Buttons, White HotChocSpoon and Instant
• Handmade Chocolate Lip Balm - tasted nice
• Bothams Biscuits - Chocolate Chip & Ginger SPice
• Japanese Mug
• Lottie Shaw's Parkin Cake - not for me :D thanks
• Cinnamon
• Reindeer Stencil

My attempt at the reindeer 

In November I got the Danish Advent box

With the cutest little elf doll! Love it! And the heart and stars decorations

The box also included

• Make your own Christmas Cracker Kit
• Christmas scented poppurrii
• Black Forest Hot Choc Spoon - not the best flavour... I could only take one sip of it, the rest went to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the sewer...

And there was also supposed to be a mulled wine kit in there but I never received mine :( and I only noticed like a month or so later so felt a bit awkward writing to them about it after so long... will check the list carefully from now on :D

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Lynx escape

Sooooo... we have  a tiny zoo in a nearby town. Privately owned. Real tiny. But somehow they've managed to have a few lions and now lynxes. The lions have always been a controversial subject there as it's basically a homebrewn zoo and in quite of a state. I think it has had a couple of different owners since I've lived here and town folk are torn up about it. Is it good or is it bad?

One day (a few months ago now as I am superfast in writing up these posts) news came out that a lynx had escaped it's enclosure and was roaming around freely.  Furthermore it could've been up to three days prior to the news that the lynx actually escaped... but they didn't notice until now :O Farmers were freaked out - what about their sheep? Mummys were freaked out - what about their young children? 

There were a few sightings of the young lynx girl meaning she was still in the vicinity but no one could catch her. Until about a week later when news came in that she had been shot... :( Outrage towards the council (it was their hired shooter) for killing a little baby basically. Poor little lynx and poor little zoo.

A day or two later news came in that another lynx had died at the zoo! Strangled to death! Apparently the council was supposed to do a full investigation of the enclosures in the zoo to see if the zoo indeed is safe for animals, especially big cats. So the staff panicked and started moving the lynxes to another (bigger/better?) enclosure and that's when the terrible accident happened...

Huge backlash against the zoo now...

People did go there to help them with modernising and repairing the enclosures and I think they've had a ban on having dangerous animals in there now which they are appealing against.

Oh and a few days before this dozens of octopuses crawled along a beach in another nearby town...

And before all of this the deadly Portuguese man o'war washed up on the beaches here as well...

Curious curious...

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...