Yes Please

A colleague at work asked me as a joke if I would like the new Ikea catalogue since I am Swedish.

Doh! YES PLEASE!

It's almost as good as Vogue, In Style and Elle. 

I can sit and look at the pictures forever and get inspiration for the flat. 

Needless to say I now want to change everything at home.

Oh The Italian is going to be so happy..... NOT! He has put me on a strict Budget and I don't see any Ikea trips for the near future in the Chrystal ball ....  

Bank Holiday Monday

Sunday afternoon I finished at 4pm and The Italian came to meet me and we went to Soho and had some dinner at Randall and Aubin which we love. And after that we went to Odeon in Covent Garden and saw The Girl Who Played with Fire. I have already seen it twice, but I was more than happy to watch it again with The Italian.

Yesterday we were supposed to get up early and go and do lots of things, but I slept until just before 12noon, and The Italian was sitting by the computer composing a canape menu so the day started a bit later than we had planned. But after a run and some exercises and a shower we walked down to Brick Lane and had some strawberry mojitos and a small nacho plate.

(unfortunately I only had the iphone as a camera so quality of photos are really bad - again)

I found a sombrero that I had to put on:)

And then we went on to Hoxton Square for some more drinks

And then to Pizza East for some dinner, the Italian is bored of posing

I was pleased to see that they have put my favourite starter back on the menu

And the Italian ordered San Daniele, Speck and Burrata

And then we shared a pizza

After that we went home and watched How I Met Your Mother on DVD and ate lots of chocolate.

A great day, and I was so excited to spend so much quality time with my man these last two days.

Has been a while since we had this luxury...

Mojitos and nachos on Brick Lane

Last day in Barcelona:(

It feel weird looking at the pictures from Barcelona now. I can't believe that I was lying on a beach a few days ago when all it's been doing since I got back is rain and rain and rain....

But never mind here are the last pictures from my last day there.

Rita got to come with us to the park for a coffee (well ice cream for me.....)

Afterwards I went to the beach on my own since they both had to work for a bit.

I went to another part of the beach and shared the sea and sand with all the other tourists.

But it was still so nice and relaxing and I had a bit of a snooze.

And when I got back we had our last meal together before I had to head off to the airport. Lots of yummy cheese and some more chocolate.

Before we knew it, it was 7.30pm and I had to leave:(

Thank you my sweet C for such an amazing week.

Monday Evening

When I got home C and I had a bit of a siesta and then we went for a Power Walk with her dog Rita.

We went to a park that I have now forgotten the name of, but it was absolutely gorgeous and not as many tourists as the other parks.

Rita

Me in my power walk outfit with a MASSIVE elephant.

Beautiful C and her dog.

And then in the evening we went for dinner with Jose and his flatmate Clara.

Monday Afternoon

The clouds cleared up a bit so I sat on the terrace for a couple of hours before getting ready to go into town and meet up with my friend S. We met by Las Ramblas and then we went for an ice cream.

She had a car and we decided to drive around for a bit. She was an excellent tour guide telling me the history of everything we saw.

The part of the beach where we used to go everyday looked very different at 6pm when it wasn't so packed.

The "tour bus"