Budapest : Day 2

Good girls that we are, we woke op at 8 in the morning to go walk in the city. We did everything by walk, we walked to the big bridge that separates Buda and Pest (we were in the ghetto from Pest) which was a 10 mile walk. I didn't expect that it was freezing out there. We had to do a coffee break every half hour, just to warm up our hands. After a really long walk we were finally on the bridge. Man, I felt so much that moment, happiness, freedom, goosebumbs (probably because it was freezing), but it felt amazing. At the end of the bridge there was a huge mountain with on top the lady of liberty. Ofcourse we had nothing else to do, so we went up that mountain in the freezing cold! But we got there , on top of the mountain with a view over whole Budapest. Never felt more powerful! With all that walking we got hungry, so we walked back downstairs and went to eat in a proper restaurant with a good glass of wine.

After a fine lunch we went for a walk in town, bought some christmas presents and found a place where we could have a Thai Massage. That's perfect after a whole morning of intensive walking, so we went inside. I already had a weird feeling when there were actual beds, but the masseuses were female so I hadn't any worries. Until she was touching my butt an ripping my bra off I got a bit scared. I totally started panicking when I heard the word ' Happy Ending ' in the middle of her Thai sentence, at that moment I grabbed my clothes and disappeared. I nearly had an happy ending of a 40 year old Thai masseuse!? So we decided to go to the Hard Rock café to drink a Cosmopolitan. Everytime I go to an Hard Rock café, I have to drink a Cosmopolitan there, that's my thing.

In the evening we had a special thing planned. We had a wine tasting, on a cruiseship, on the Donau river. How nice is that? Only the bridge at night was already priceless, but than we got on the cruise. Oh god that view, the prettiest I've ever seen. So we were sipping wine, eating nacho's, hearing life violin players while enjoying the best view. Could life get any better? 

One thing I was wondering, how did they expect from us that we could drink 8 glasses of wine in 1 hour , on a boat AND behave ourselves? Ohwell, we tried our best! We did need a taxi home though...

We got beyond early! We were so knackered that we decided to go to bed early ( 10 PM!!!! ) so we could get up early the day after. I'm such a good girl! 

Wine tasting.

Hanging around in Budapest

Walked all the way up that mountain

Isn't that view priceless?

Budapest : Day 1

Finally we were leaving, it was already late so we decided to have make it a flight to remember (or not remember). As soon as we were on the plane we order a bottle of wine, some olives and cheese. Pretty fancy isn't it? For the first time in my life I had a 'good' flight. Ohwell, flights are never actually good but I didn't had panic attacks to crash down, so it was good. After 2 hours we arrived in Budapest, of course it couldn't stay perfect, our transfer to the hotel wasn't there. So after one hundred phone calls we decided to take a taxi to the hotel. Of course we payed to much, but we didn't care we were finally at the hotel. After dressing up we went outside for a nice night out in town. As soon as we got out the hotel we realized that we were in the ghetto of Budapest, nothing to do, nothing to drink and poor people on the street. It looked a bit dangerous so to be smart we just went back to the hotel. We grabbed a bottle of wine of our mini bar and sat writing down what we were going to do the day after. So we had a first early night in Budapest!

Chilling with our glass of wine. 

Lovely flight! 

Off to Budapest!

Today I'm finally leaving for a city trip to Budapest! I'm so excited!
Not excited for the fact that I have to go on a plane, and sure as hell not excited
that the plane is from Ryan Air. Ohwell, as long as I make it there, everything will be fine.

I can actually not wait to be there, I researched a lot about the culture and 'Places to see in Budapest'.
I'm going to watch the bridge that separates Buda and Pest (of course), and the hot waterthermes.
I also cannot wait for the food, going on restaurant, twice a day. Apparently it's very cheap to eat and drink up there! So we surely are going to some bars at night, maybe clubbing! And in the day holding coffee-latte breaks in the intellectual bars. There are a lot coffee bars like in the british movies, old, the tables made of light brown wood while smart journalist are sipping their coffees while writing the new article of the times square. (Yes I know, big fantasy about coffee shops).

I'm also going to have a shopping day, see what the Hongarian fashion is like. And to buy my Christmas presents for my family. Can't wait to be there but now I'm going to pack my bags.
I'll let you know everything I did! I'm going to enjoy myself and wish me luck that my Ryan Air plane isn't going to crash! ;-)

Portugal!

I think I officially changed my mind about London. Don't get me wrong London is an amazing city but why go to somewhere, where I already been if there are so many other cities where I haven't been? So I think I'm going to cancel London and look for something else. I've already booked my flight to Portugal! From the first of June until the 31st of June! A whole month of spending quality time with my family, I couldn't be more excited! And when I get back I have my exam and after that I'm going somewhere else. I might do an animation season again, or first go traveling and next year doing a new season... Who knows!? For the moment I'm just excited to go for a month to Portugal, visit my family, travel around and enjoy the good life!

Algarve

Lisboa at night

Lisboa

Today is a good day!

Today is a good day!
I'm officially going to London, there is no way back now! (unless I'm not smart enough to work at a pub and my English is rubbish...) but let's stay positive! I'm going to London! Couple of months, a half year, a whole year, who knows? I'm so excited! There's one thing I'm not really sure of yet... Should I go in January or in July? January is in 2 months. There's no such thing as wintertime in London but July gives me more time to save money and I could do a city trip every month. And I really don't think I'd spend my free time in London studying for my course and that's pretty important! So I think I should go in July. And give myself a congratulations present to the Bahama's. Which is never gonna happen but still, dreaming is believing!

The Big Ben

London at night.

The London Eye

As if my day couldn't get any better, I just officially booked my city trip to Budapest! A big big city that had a fight so they divorced. From then on they were individuals, Buda and Pest. People were so heartbroken that they broke up so they build a bridge to get them back together and now they're in therapy working on it. How romantic is that?

You see what being happy and traveling does to me? I'm starting to write love stories about cities...
Oh well, I'm in a good mood today and I'm going to study now so I can get my degree and go work for Thomas Cook in the office booking peoples their dream holiday! Life is good!

The bridge between Buda and Pest.

The Thermes

Places to see before I die

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Abel Tasman National Park - New Zealand

Breath-taking view of Krabi, Thailand

El Nido Palawan island in Phillippines 

Helsinki, Finland

Kusma Gyadi Suspension Bridge, Nepal

Lake Sylvenstein, Germany

Marble Caves in Southern Patagonia, Chile

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia 

The perfect honeymoon in the Maladives

Seljalandsfoss Waterfall, Iceland 

The Putra Mosque, Putrajaya, Malaysia 

Tianzi Mountains, China 

Vanua Levu, Fiji

Money can't buy happiness.

Blair Waldorf once said: ' People who say that money can't buy happiness, don't know where to shop.' and I agreed, until I went to Greece... I saved some money to get through the first month and you cannot even imagine how fast I spended it. The first week, we had everything, a fridge full of beer, loads of cigarettes, soda's, cookies, crisps, everything! And than I realized that there was no money left and payday was still far away. So from that moment on I started to live without money. I didn't had any, but I was the happiest girl ever, I couldn't care less. We had days that we had to search in the flat for a couple of euro's just to get a taxi, so we still could go out with the team. We had a bottle of Coke in our purse, some desserts we stole from the restaurant and roll-up cigarettes because we couldn't effort normal cigarettes. On day-offs we went to the beach to get tanned and enjoy the view with the same bottle of Coke from the night before. And of course we hated it sometimes, but we loved it aswell. Money doesn't compare to the experience of being somewhere else. Well, I'm not going to say that it doesn't make things much easier, of course it does. But there are more important things in life. So I'm changing my point of view; `Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a one-way ticket to another place, and that's pretty close.`

London

My plan was to go to Londen for a couple months in July. Why july? I'm studying for a degree in Tourism and my exam is in july. I've been thinking a lot today, I don't know if it's because of the biggest hangover day ever, or because I actually start to hate people, but I came up with another plan. Why not go next month to London and stay there until july, come back, do a kick ass exam, get my degree and go somewhere else. I actually can do it, work and save money in London, so when I come back, I can discover another place. This would be pretty cool, winter months in London and spending summer somewhere in South Europe and than next year starting to go outside Europe. Looking forward to be anywhere but here!

People I met ( Part I )

The first person I met there was Stuart.
A proper Geordie boy, casanova and an ego bigger than the Mount Everest.
The first couple of days we pranked each other all the time but soon we became really close,
he was like a brother to me. (Don't get me wrong, there's no one on this earth who can compare to my brother). But well, at the other side of Europe I needed a big brother to take care of me, so he did.

After 2 weeks came our chief animator, Alessia, girl from Italy. Since she was there we started going out everyday, we even forgot to practice for our shows, but we had an amazing time. We had rough times with her aswell, but after all the mess we've been through, she was the best chief ever. She met the love of her life, I couldn't see anyone happier than them. The cheesiest couple I've ever seen in my life. Sometimes it is kinda annoying when the perfect couple is being cute all the time and you're just sitting there being single. But well, my point was, after this season he moved to Italy for her and they're still together uploading cheesy Facebook pictures! Now THAT'S romantic!

Our dance choreographer who came 10 days later, the best I've ever met in my life. Nicole is like me, but older and I wish I could say more responsible, but she's not. Life was complete when she was there, work in the morning, beach in our breaks, work in the evening and party at night. More or less 4 hours of sleep a day, but well, that's how we roll! Meeting her was probably the best thing ever, you cannot even imagine how retarded we are around each other. We didn't even had to talk we just knew what we wanted to say. We did have fights, but soon we were begging each other for forgiveness, that was a daily program. I could write a book about all the mess we made together, but I don't think that's a good idea...

That leaves me with the next person, I'm not gonna use names with this one. Once I thought this boy was the love of my life. He did make me feel that way. You know that feeling? When someone looks at you, you get instantly blush on your face and your knees feel weak. And if he's with you, trying your very best not to act like a complete idiot (which is the hardest thing ever at that moment), that feeling when he talks to you, you just wanna jump him and cuddle him, that feeling your heart is beating to fast that you think you're going to die and you feel those stupid butterflies tickle your tummy? You know that feeling? Well, I had that feeling, until he ripped my heart out of my chest and decides to stand on it.
The biggest idiot I met in my life, can't believe how much time I wasted wanting him instead enjoying my being single. I can't deny it, I really was in love with him. Oh well, just never fall in love with a British guys, they are the biggest twats on the planet, their absolutely gorgeous accent is it really not worth it, just saying.

Ok, this was the childish part that had to come out. Now back to normal.
A couple of days after Nicole arrived Stuart had to leave. Why? Because he was a total twat and had fights with our chief all the time. So there came a new boy, Jay! The professional dancing, gay lad (we thought). Which was pretty uncomfortable when we found out it was not. Jay was a decent guy, well he wasn't he just looked and acted like a decent guy but deep inside he's a proper badass. A little baby when he doesn't get want he wants, but at the end, we were all stubborn little babies. And that's when the A-team started.



Alessia, Nicole and me at the beach at night.

Best friends keep each other warm at cold evenings.

 Jay, Nicole and me on another night out

Full moon party with the A-team and hotel guests!

 Giving each other a massage, that's how we roll!

My experience in Greece.

Before I knew I found a job on the Greek Island , Kos. 5* family resort as holiday rep. I was so excited to go but 2 weeks before I was going to leave I started being a bit scared. I mean, I was going to the other side of Europe, I don't know where I was going, I didn't know anyone, I was leaving my friends and family and the biggest one, how the hell was I going to take care of myself? Without my mom cooking for me and doing my laundry? Oh God, I was scared.

In a blink of an eye that week passed by and I was in the airport with my best friends and family, first we were joking in the car and the next minute we were crying our eyes out at the check in. That was probably the most heartbreaking moment in my life. I was leaving my very best friends and my family. What the hell was I doing? After 4 cups of Starbucks, a couple anti-stress pills and a lot of crying I was ready to go. Well, I wasn't but I had to, so I jumped on the plane with red-cry-eyes. Everyone probably thought I was on hard drugs... I wish I was at that moment. I didn't know I was more scared to fly with RyanAir or to go to a foreign country for 6 months, oh well I was on my way, and hoping my that RyanAir plane wouldn't crash.

The plane arrived in Kos, probably the most shitty airport I've ever seen in my life, but I came outside and I fell in love with the view. I was smoking my cigarette while enjoying the sun and the wind playing with my hair (which ruined my hair, but still, it was a nice moment). My ride was there, while enjoying the view and talking to the taxi guy, I was secretly hoping not to die because driving in Greece is HELL. After the scariest trip of my life, I finally arrived in a proper quality 5* resort that was going to be my home for 6 months. My life was complete.

Let's go anywhere.

Today I made myself a bucket list, a list of places I want to go before I die. And I realized something...

Or I have to marry a goodlooking really rich man, or I have to win the freaking lottery. For godsake, why is traveling so expensive?

The first time I went on holiday, alone, without parents, just with friends. I went to Egypt, nothing special, but I totally loved it. Being away and just get lost in a place I've never been before. My friends wanted to party and get tanned. I wanted to discover and ride on camels, the typical stuff. Since that I was sold, sold to the world. While my friends were having the perfect sun kissed skin, I was enjoying aqua gym and yoga with the holiday reps. I was jealous at their job. I knew that that was a job I had to do. So as soon I got home I fell apart. I didn't wanna be here, I just wanted to see the world. So me and my best friend Google started looking for jobs!