Bardolino

A little charming town on lake Garda :) I might have fallen in love :)

Getting there is easy from the airport: you have to part with about 4 euros and after an hour on the bus you spot your hotel from the window and request a stop :) Mind you there might be some tense moments on the bus since you drive past parks like Gardaland and Movieland and god knows what else you had absolutely no idea existed and neither did your travel planner (read Mr. Special). Yeap on the hottest day so far you are sweating in a bus filled with people and forced to watch others climbing up stairs with their inflatables to go down the water slide -.- you get my frustration right? It gets worse for me :(

Bardolino is a small town and the lake is only about five minutes from our hotel. Perfect!!!! just need to find my bikini and spend the next hours in the lake. Problem... For some reason I can't find my bikini tops - I only have the bottoms -.- I felt like crying :( (PS! I still can't find them so I must've dropped them on the floor while changing in the airport toilet and rushing out since there was only two cubicles there and a HUGE queue :( FUUUUUUDGE!!!!)

This could've been me :(

The promenade in Bardolino

It was around 1 o'clock and we hadn't eaten anything yet. Mind you with this heat I didn't really want anything anyway but one's got to eat and I opted for a salad and it was perf!!! I was a bit surprised that it was laid out on the plate rather than mixed together in a bowl but who am I to judge. The ingredients were perfect and perfectly light :)

FOOOD

While sitting in our ristorante we spotted the ice-cream ristorante

And since they had fans spraying water mist on to people we decided it's the place to be and ordered a bounty flavoured ice-cream spaghetti. Mr. Special didn't realise it was all ice cream and not real spaghetti at first :D What could be better than sipping some cocktails and eating ice cream spaghetti while watching a couple of guys try and securely tie up their boat to the mooring station. I guess that's what they were doing... :S 3 people on the shore tried helping them but it just didn't happen :D

Streets of Bardolino

Cocktail time again :)

Who can resist and not order a tiramisu while in Italy?

To our surprise the town was still very much alive late at night (around 9ish). Most of the shops (tabacs and clothes stores) were still open, restaurants invited you to come and dine there were just as much people on the streets as during the day and even the little train was still running :) Yay only 1 or 2 euros a ticket we thought we might as well take a little trip :)

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Playlist

This month is a struggle again :( Basically I don't really listen to these songs at home but when they're on the radio I like them :D I'm still majorly crushing on my playlist that I made two months ago. ooooh a major music fail this month too. I basically forced Mr. Special to buy Now That's What I call Music 91. because the last one was a hit and we listened to it everytime when we were in the car and he'd failed to download it and put it on the cd.... There's literally only 2-3 songs we like though :( what a waste of money :D

I think I love every version of the Chaka Khan's song so this is no exception :)

Little mix - Black Magic

Fifth Harmony - Worth it 

would be way better if didn't repeat the same lyrics 500 times :/

Lean on

Back to the 90s :D

I loved this when I was a kid :)

Maarja - Sa ju tead

I am not proud of this :D 

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

It's getting hot in here!

So I got a week of from work and we decided to go to Italy (again!) and this time Milan and the expo were our final destinations. Now as many of you have some kind of a rainy expectation of the British summer then I must tell that it is TRUE- it's been cold and cloudy and rainy and blergh... so much so that Mr. Special wanted to take all his hoodie collection with him to Italy... even after I recited the weather forecast: 35C sunny, 37C sunny, 40C sunny etc. You just can't imagine that there is a warm place anywhere in this earth when every day the view out of the window is blurred by rainfall...

So guess who was extremely happy when stepping out of the plane in the 10AM HEAT (what is morning coolness?) without a suitcase full of hoodies? Oh he put up a fight at home but as always...

And yes this is mostly a weather report :D How delightfully English of me :) 

Monday: around 40 degrees, sunny (the day we were at lake Garda)

Tuesday: over 42 degrees, sunny (the day we decided to walk around Milan)

Wednesday: around 40 degrees, sunny (the Expo day)

Thursday: around 40 degrees, sunny (the day for Cinque terre)

Friday: around 40 degrees, sunny (the day that was spent in Verona)

Now I finally understand the all-inclusive lounging around the pool holidays. I've always thought that I'd be bored but in that heat (25C is my comfort level) we struggled to get out of the hotel and make worthwhile of our holiday... next time seeing that heat being forecasted you will find me by the pool working on my suntan ;)

Ps! I didn't even get nicely tanned because I was too afraid to get burnt so put on sunscreen all the time :( although the last days I wasn't very careful anymore... Where is my nice tan to show????????????? Unfair!

Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...

Llanerchaeron and Powis castle

So a long long time ago we thought we'd visit Powis castle and long before that Llanerchaeron.

I wish I could show you lots of pics but for some reason I've been so lazy at taking pics :( So I've searched and searched through my computer and decided to show you basically all of the photos I've taken :D

So first the hidden gem near Aberaeron: Llanerchaeron! And when I say hidden I really mean it since there is no sign at the last turn so Mr. Special literally made a snap decision this is it!!!! and nearly missed the turning downhill. My heart stopped thinking the next time I open my eyes we're in a bush next to the road... but no luckily he can drive and after a couple of minutes worrying we turned way too early (we were between fields :S) we finally noticed the fancy fence and soon after signs for the entrance and parking (which was surprisingly busy).

It's like an 18th-century Welsh gentry estate with an amazing garden and huge pond :) Now this is the kind of house I maybe want in my dreams :D a bit more realistic than the castles I usually dream of ;) For kids there is a spot the pig game in every room and I must say from the second room onwards I was hooked! The first thing my eyes searched for was the pig hidden somewhere.

The outside was even better I think with like a woodland park surrounding the huge pond and next to it a walled garden with beautiful flowers, mini-ponds and obviously their own vegetable patches.  But the best thing about the garden was the kitty!!! Oh he was so lovely! So nice and cuddly! I think I spent hours there just petting the cat. Then when we made our exit we had to go through the farm part of the estate and saw turkeys running around and pigs :)

Turns out I don't have any pics at all :( but google it :D

Anyway a couple of days later the three of us went to Powis castle about an hour and a half drive from Aber. My friend was spending her last days in Aber before moving back to Estonia :'( And since she's never really been out of Aber during the four years she lived here we decided to go somewhere further than just Ynyslas (where we've been a couple of weeks ago).

The thing that won my heart with Powis castle was the garden again! I just wasn't expecting that! It was huge and nicely maintained, just wow. The castle was amazing too obviously! They had volunteers in every room and the first one who greeted us really got into character and treated us like guests attending the dinner party. That whole volunteer aspect of the castle really helped us know more about its history and little details that we normally would not even had thought about. So more volunteers in these huge castles! Btw one funny detail: the volunteer said there was a lion carpet on the floor whereas it was clearly a tiger :D Yes we debated about quite a while (not with the volunteer obvs) while just admiring the carpet and deciding we'd never want a huge head (be it tiger or lion) on our floors...

The castle and the forecourt

There were two or three peacocks just running around.

One of them was admiring its reflection from the mirroring signs :D

A view downhill from the castle

The garden part which is like on terraces downhill from the castle.

The second terrace/level had a little rose house :)

View to the castle from the furthest point of the estate

There were winding labyrinth style paths in that "shrubbery" on the right side of the hill :)

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

DJ play that song

I know I'm late with my post, sorry Jazzzz

I still like Years and Years and their new song

For some reason can't find the right video for this one, but nevermind, life is still lush!!!

Something for all the ladies :P 

And Ella, as I really like her voice.

Don't really have a favourite Estonian song from the things released lately so I'll add something older.

Ems

Obsession or coincidence?

I don't know why it's taken me that long to write this up but I knew the moment it satrted happening that I should :D And like one of my friends said when I showed the messages to her: "It's been going on for half a year? really?". The time just flew by and even I was shocked wow yeah, it has indeed been that long... :D someone was seriously obsessed.

So one day I got a message from a totally random guy and since I am how I am and don't really care for talking to strangers :D I answered very tentatively and in the end just blatantly ignored everything. That didn't stop him though and soon his "friend" started messaging me and then when I ignored him as well another guy tried his luck... I've never in my life had anything like this before and haven't had randomers messaging me since... And when I say totally random guy I mean not even one mutual friend although they claim to be in Aber etc. When I looked at their profiles they all seemed to be done recently and just had shirtless photos of them added recently and some statuses :D  no new ones though and no other activity, so I thought they were fake profiles tbh :D but who/why would suddenly be so obsessed to start talking to me under fake profiles? :D

I'm laughing when reading those back so I'lll copy them here :) My text is in italic and yes they are mainly monologues :D

1st guy 

• I canselled add now. (he had added me as a friend but I didn't accept obvs)
• ok, i dont know who you are so i didnt accept
• I jus recognised you
• Re ad ??
• wil yo accept?
• why?
• Jus I recognise you. So I add you
• K u dont want to chat then?
• How are you
• Oh we'll forget it then your loss really. I want bother you again. Se you arond
• Sorry I thouht you were sum1 else. I jus saw your picture and remembed talking to you cuple of times. No offense meant
• Se your on rugby pge. Do you play..? émoticône smile think that how I knew you actually.
• I did play a bit last year, but I'm not in Aber anymore, I seriously doubt we know each other
• cool, where u now then? defintly spoke to you tho
• In France now
• Cool why
• U stopped talkin again
• I do not spend every minute of my day on facebook
• Kk why u in France? Like it.
• Tbh u don't seem really as if u want to talk.
• Bye then. Will block you.
• ok
• no chat so thats why
• ok
• was only being friendly
• if you got a pic sent las nite? sorry ma mate was drunk
• nevermind
• wot the point I only apoligized
• nice picture : ) bit flirty (that's my profile pic he's referring to now)
• Ok u win.jus surprised cos every girl chats when they see my pictuers (the abs!!!!!!)
• hav you reortd me to face book at all?
• shoulnt have messaged you on here, the missus caught me goin wiv other girls from here. she read al my msges. not bothered about her. out tonight then??
• ok im cureous. why wont you have a convasation with me. that's how you get to no ppl. pls replie
• block me now then please?
• im just suprised that you wont talk but yet you wont block me either, so do maybe we culd chat? if not pls say,im not tryin to be a creep. so how you doing?
• thats it forget it. no need to be so rude n hardhearted to ppl, I pity the next guy if this is how you treat them. sorry to be blunt. im blockin yo now.bye
• im sorry I shoulnt have been so blunt, but I thought u would have guessed I was keen to talk to yiu for a reason, if u wernt interested in that way u sould of said.
• ??
• hows france? miss aber?
• did you get my question?/
• I don't like not being answered
• nice picture : ) don't ignor me
• at least you read my message this time. its something all id like now is a reply from you

2nd guy

• Hi, not sure if you remember me but I wanted to talk to you about what's been going down with my mate Dan (2nd guy). He showed me his messages before, and I thought I'd tell you, he got autism and doesn't mean any harm, but I've told him to block you and to leave alone.
• Hi, I'm pretty sure I don't know either of you, but no worries
• thanks, maybe not, I'm 3rd year now but I was in Germany for a year before that.
• oh also please let me know if it happens again? émoticône smile
• will do
• Thanks émoticône smile your not the only one , and he may get into trouble if he carries on émoticône frown
• should I add you so its easier for you to let me know if anything happens? émoticône smile
• anything else?
• Merry Christmas émoticône smile I remember you from halls by the way.
• Merry Christmas to you too. Which halls?
• Saw you in cwrt mawre
• lol you obvs don't
• sorry that isn't meant for you, sure that's not your sort of thing. (he sent me a picture of model in lingerie from zoo website :D)
• dan is right you do ignore people
• shared your picture, ill share some of mine later on yours
• who are you?
• rob 1st year
• do i know you?
• sure you do?
• nope
• want to chat then?
• why?
• have some fun?
• why?
• Why not
• how bored are you? I do not have time to chat for fun with random people
• Bored
• cool story bro, so glad we had this chat
• So no then
• obviously
• Why obviously
• fine. its true what people say, you are unpleasant
• sadly even friends talk about people, anyway I wont bother you again.
• that wasn't my place to say, hope I haven't caused trouble with you and your mates.
• ?
• you block me and then expect an answer?
• sorry but yeah
• and what's the question?
• did i upset you? and i guess you dont want conversation?
• no'
• Fair enough, but I shouldn't have told you, it wasn't my place to, besides the comments were made a couple of months ago now on a night out, not to me though, you know what girls are like when they are bitching about people. no offense meant on my part. bye
• haha, I must say I'm a bit honoured that someone feels the need to talk about me, doubt that they're my friends though
• fiesty
• imn veryy drunk..coupld comee ovr?u wan discree? fun
• you have no idea who or where i am, have you?
• ye I ahve n that ms want for you, i wouldnt go near you
• just to let you know my mate sendin random crap to spotted about the random girls in his inbox hes pretty drunk.
• well I warned everyone. bye
• it could have been worth your time reading these.
• got your name on too, not sure if they publish names though.it was meant as a laugh
• you really are rude! I was only warning you that's all.
• enjoy being on spotted then
• do you read anything?
• ill persist lol
• a reply woulnt hurt you?
• bit funny?
• hi
• not working this is it?
• hi
• fuck it, your no good for what we looking for. sorry for the hasstle
• unless you are discreet??
• ?????
• are you willing to listen to an explanation?
• ok thing is me and this guy kind of see each other occasionally and we use this and grindr to meet others to join us if you get what I mean. we are both 100% clean and always totally discreet. so sorry to have been a pain, its obvs not too ask the question straight out, its not like grindr on here. so that's it sorry obvs not your thing
• least read
• ?? quicker if you replied!!!!!!
• then ill block you if you want
• have the read, then ill block.
• waiting
• hello
• why don't we stop playing games?
• hello Jasmine, will you say somethibg
• lets sort this out/
• ok thing is me and this guy kind of see each other occasionally and we use this and grindr to meet others to join us if you get what I mean. we are both 100% clean and always totally discreet. so sorry to have been a pain, its obvs not too ask the question straight out, its not like grindr on here. so that's it sorry obvs not your thing
• finally!
• so do you answer?
• as you've now read my message, can you be polite and reply back.

3rd guy

• hello
• think I had you on my list before
• nope
• ok , hard to know when you got over 1000 friends, I just added loads from my course etc
• BOO
• how are you?
• hey how are you? hope you don't think im a creep?
• I was wondering if we could chat at all? give me a reply émoticône smile
• I really don't have any time on my hands at all
• im sure you could find a bit of time?
• would a picture help?
• hey give me a heads up
• how do you know me again?
• thought you were on my friends before
• I wasnt
• ok then cool I didn't send the pic then if that's the case
• ok
• you would prob find it a bit weird if I did
• but up to you émoticône smile
• no thanks
• you sure?
• yes
• ok
• msg me if you change your mind, got a bet on seeing how many girls actually accept!
• honestly its only a laugh, i send, you rate it andd then forgotten about
• How long is this bet going on for?
• i dont know.. few days probs why??
• You've been messaging me for a month now
• ah ok that wasnt the bet then though, but as you were in my inbox
• So do you message all your 1000 friends like this?
• no just started a silly bet
• On the 17th April?
• maybe
• Maybe...
• maybe you want me to send a pic??
• No
• damn
• sorry if you took any offence émoticône smile, but really all you had to do was delete the message if you are that hung up over it.its only meant as a bit of a laugh. émoticône smile
• and no i just thought at first id say hi to you
• sorry ok, it was honestly a laugh, was it really a big deal for you
• what did you think i was going to send?? just curious, im losing anyway

And then the best thing happened: apparently the girlfriend of guy number 2 messaged me :)

• has something ever happened between you and the guy im seeing?
• ?
• can you talk to me please
• ?
• guilty then
• ??????????
• ROB
• stay away from other peoples men in future,
• you have not even read my message yet?

And then as suddenly as it started it ended a whole 7 months later :D

Fun times :)

The question remains though... is it 4 different people who all at the same time when messaging me happened to create a new profile they later never updated or is one person behind all of these? :D quite sad if the latter proves to be the right answer :D

Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...