Amsterdam, May 2015

So at the end of may before finally returning back home after spending the past 2 years in the UK, I made a stop at Amsterdam! The dutch capital is commonly known for it's great cheese and it's canals but I was looking to explore a different side of it all and, as a 'foodie', just felt like it was my mission to find the best places for having a snack or a proper meal, so that I can give you guys advice on where to go if you ever stop by Amsterdam! ;)

It's a great city for a trip, the atmosphere between the rows of small houses and countless canals is very relaxed and nearly everybody is calm and very friendly. You come to Amsterdam and time simply doesn't seem to matter this much anymore.. Hectic? What's that?!

Of course such a friendly, relaxed city is also great for green foods and clean eating! Even on my way to the city centre I already passed by a lot of shops and restaurants that offer non-processed foods.

My favourite however was the 'Peperwortel', located at the Overtoom 140.

Just look at how cute it already looks from the outside!

I decided to try their veggie curry which came with a flatbread and tasted even better than it looked.

It was simply amazing and apart from curry the deli also offers sandwiches, salads and tempting picnic baskets.

If you are more into sweet stuff however, there are countless of candy shops in the shopping area of Amsterdam offering fantastic Churros, Crepes and Belgian Waffles! 

My favourite here was the 'Jamin Amsterdam' at Leidsestraat 98-100 (it's a chain) where I tried a Belgian Waffle with Nutella, fresh Strawberry & Kitkat topping and it was by far the best Belgian waffle I've had in a while.

Are you hungry, yet?

Look at these delicious snacks! 

Okay okay, I'm not gonna torture you any longer..Of course I also went shopping a lot since the sheer endless shopping area is just amazing for that, regardless of what shop you're looking for, it's there! 

There's a canal behind me

One of the dresses I've bought

I also found traditional dutch wooden shoes! A little oversized maybe.. 

In addition to the food and shopping I also passed by this cute little art shop and just couldn't resist going inside.. 

So who did I go with on this beautiful trip? 

I went with my wonderful mom who also picked me up at the airport! 

After half a year, it was really nice to do something together.

Check out my Instagram for more photos 

(still uploading Amsterdam snaps here and then)!

Thank you for reading! 

xx ♡ Micky 

Long time no see!

Hello everybody, 

Phew, it's been a while.. But here we go again. Lot of things happened. Lot of travelling also, Amsterdam was amazing so I'm defo going to upload a blog post all about that soon! 

But first of all the most recent personal news, I finished all my exams and returned to Luxembourg for the summer. However I am still intending to do some work and travel during this time. I really wanna go to Canada or Australia since these are two countries I've always had an interest in and have never had the chance to go to.. 

It would be great to use the opportunities this summer gives me to travel 

and make some more great experiences living abroad. :) 

Another thing I really wanted to tell you that might be interesting for those of you with a tumblr account is, there's this really awesome website that offers free minimalist blog themes! They're awesome! I just updated my blog as well and this is what it looks like now: 

It just looks so much cleaner and organised (other than my life) now, I love it! 

The name of the website is Zen Themes & if you're also looking to 'minimalise' your tumblr you should definitely check them out! Hope this entry was helpful and keep looking forward my travel posts! 

xx ♡ Micky 

美拍！

美拍 (Meipai) is a new video editing app, 

or actually rather a 'social network' such as instagram but only for videos.

you might have heard of it already or seen videos 

that were created in meipai on your instagram or Facebook. 

so basically this network makes it really simple to edit your videos, 

trim them, apply filters and add music 

so they look really professional and cool when you're done!

I love this app and use it a lot which is also the main reason I want to recommend it. 

You can even fit the outlook of the video to your mood 

or the theme of the content so it can represent emotions

like happy, funny, angry, sad or send the viewer 

straight into a magic world like a fairy tale! (*^_^*)

since meipai is a chinese app the main option to register an account 

is via connecting it to your weibo but it also offers Facebook 

in case you don't have a weibo account (like me = =).

The videos you share in meipai are automatically saved to your phone 

from which you can post them to any other social platform you like, 

such as tumblr or instagram. 

The use of this app is really easy and fast and it allows you 

to straight away share created videos to chinese networks : 

WeChat, Qzone & Sina Weibo and of course Facebook 

The app itself works in a very similar way to instagram actually;

you can like & comment on posts of others, explore, follow & be followed 

and have a home timeline with posts of the people you follow. 

The only negative point I could find about it so far is that 

it limitates the lenght of the video to 10 seconds and the 'tips' for advice are in chinese haha 

but it really didn't bother me since the use of the app

 is really so simple so you won't need help for it. 

If you're interested, check it out here or download it straight from the app store 

These are some of my videos from Meipai: 

(quite stupid to be honest :p)

feel free to add me if you have meipai ～(´･ω･`)
『みみお姫様』

By The Way! - the Meipai equivalent for photos is called 

MeituPic and also offers many beautiful filters and is available in the app store as well. 

xx ♡ Micky

Do you like posting videos on social networks? 

Junk

I just dicovered this awesome fashion website 'The Junk Magazine' which is a great inspiration for all us fashionistas/-os out there i think! (especially for those who like Grunge ;3)

check it out! 

>>THIS IS JUNK

☆ Summer Vacation 2013 〜 Paris ☆

this will be a very photo heavy post 

about my vacation trip to paris this summer ～(´･ω･`)

- haha our facial expressions -  

i suppose this is literally what you call a 'snapshot' :D

i couldn't resist buying a crepe with nutella..

paris alleys...

i love these little 'container shops' you find all along the banks of river rhone

i have never seen these in any other place i've been ( or just not noticed ^^) 

& i think it's really interesting.

of course also bought biscuits at this super duper cute biscuit shop (*^_^*)

of course it's a no go going to paris without eating macarons! ;D

l'arc de triomphe

in front of 'le centre pompidou' - i'm the one with the ''naked legs'' ^^

my absolute favourite at 'le centre pompidou' 

it's just so dope..

taken on the ride back

(my hair messy as usual T__T)

last but not least the eiffel tower ... plz just ignore my strange hair style _  _

hope you've enjoyed the picture and got kind of an impression of the city and our trip ;)

for more photos just view my instagram 

xoxo ♡ Micky