less than 24 hours in leicester

The other weekend my mum and I took a little trip down to Leicester for a concert at De Montfort Hall, called Gigs in the Garden. It consisted of 3 acts, Scouting for Girls, Professor Green and Busted. 

BODEGA CANTINA
Our first stop in Leicester was actually for dinner which we had early due to the concert starting at 6:30pm. As we were in the city to pick up some Lush and for mum to get her tragus pierced we stopped in St Martins Square (my favourite place in Leicester) and tried out Bodega Cantina. It is a beautiful little Mexican place, we had nachos to share to start which were homemade and absolutely beautiful. I decided to go all out and get a cocktail, a vodka cosmo. For our mains mum and I, both had a burrito however I had a naked on (in a bowl rather than a wrap).

SCOUTING FOR GIRLS
Roy, Pete and Gregg always put on amazing show, scouting for girls truly are one of my favourite bands ever. I can't even count how many times I have seen them live but they always impress. Mum and I always have the best time seeing them, and we have definitely already get tickets for their UK tour in November/December this year.

The setlist
Heartbeat
This Ain't a Love Song
James Bond
It's Not About You
Grown Ups
Millionaire
Posh Girls
She's So Lovely

PROFESSOR GREEN

BUSTED
I have always been a massive fan of Busted, ever since I was a little girl. I knew after I saw McBusted live I needed to see ALL of Busted when they got back together. So when I saw they were coming to Leicester with Scouting for Girls I asked mum straight away if she wanted to go and thank goodness she said yes!! We had such an amazing view and honestly had the best time, 4-year old me would never believe that I'd been seeing them live at the age of 20 and close to the stage!! Still emotional.

The setlist
Airhostess
What I go to School For
Thunderbirds
You Said No
Crashed the Wedding
Sleeping with the Light on
3am
Shipwrecked in Atlantis
Radio
Nineties
Year 3000

We ended the evening by having a nice walk back to the hotel, followed by a cup of tea and a doughnut from my favourite place - Doughnotts!! If you ever find yourself in either Leicester, Nottingham or Derby I definitely recommend trying them out. Mum loved her's (choc orange) and she isn't a massive fan of doughnuts. I had cookie monster - a personal favourite from them. 

The following morning we packed up our bags, had another cup of tea and got ready to head to breakfast at spoons. I went for something different this time, usually I am a small or large breakfast type of girl at spoons but instead, I went for smashed avo on a muffin with poached eggs. Mum had scrambled egg on toast with baked beans, and of course, we had several cups of tea too. 

It felt strange going to Leicester and not staying in my accommodation but instead of staying in a Premier Inn. It was fun to experience it in a different light with my mum, however, I cannot wait to move into my new accommodation - NEXT SATURDAY !!! woohoo. Can't wait to show you my new room for my 2nd year at University, and get back into blogging again as I been slacking.

Photo Diary | Moraira, Spain 2018

As a few of you may know if you follow me on Instagram, I have been back in England for a week now after being in Spain for 2 weeks with my family for my Aunt's 50th. 

We stayed in a place called Moraria, which is in the middle of Valencia and Alicante along the coast. I have been going here for the past 10 years now but haven't been here since 2016.  

Moraira isn't very tourist like and has very few hotels which is what we like about it. We stayed in a Villa just round the coast, in between Moraira and Calpe. Driving around the estates is quite difficult even if you know where you are going, in the light and it's extremely difficult to find your way around at night! This time around as we knew where we were going it was a lot easier to find the villa, compared to last time when we got lost. 

On our second night, we headed into Moraira for dinner and I had a play with the HUJI app that everyone is so obsessed with. 

We always go down to the marina took look at the fishes and the boats and cars we cannot afford.

If you read my post from Moraira 2 years ago then you will remember we went to the cutest restaurant ever that did a wonderful paella, and of course, we went back this time!

I had such a lovely holiday and I adore spending time with my family, they are honestly the best and I will miss them when I am at University. In the first week, I finished my book - One of us is lying by Karen McManus which was amazing, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I also watched the new season of Orange is the new black which was amazing as always!!

Thank you so much for reading, I know I have been lacking with the posts recently but I haven't felt motivated to do anything apart from work and watch Netflix. However, I wanted to share this with you and start to get back into blogging for University.

meg x 

Photo Diary | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

As you can see from the title, I went on Holiday to Amsterdam over the first 4 days of February half term with my mum. It was a kind of early 19th birthday present (as my birthday is gradually creeping up on me, less than 2 weeks away!)

DAY ONE

We didn't have a plan on Monday, we just wanted to find our way around the city plus we had a super early flight which meant we had to be up at 4am (yawn)... We managed to walk about 8.5 miles which were pretty good, however, some of that is because we kept getting lost as everywhere looked the same!

DAY TWO

Day two was our first planned day, which started off with a walk around near us looking at the shops and taking a steady walk over to the Anne Frank Museum - our first stop. This was followed by some pancakes, which was located next to the museum!

After a bite to eat at Pancakes Amsterdam, we headed over to the Rijksmuseum which has the famous 'I Amsterdam' sign in front of is, as well as being near the Moco Museum and Vincent Van Gough Museum. 

As you know I am a massive fan of John Green and his books, so of course, I had to go and visit the 'famous' TFIOS bench - where Hazel and Gus both sit in the film, aka Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort. If you have seen the film they made of the book then you will understand what happened on this bench. When we found it there was a copy of the book on it (crazy I know!), so of course, we had to photos with it.

DAY THREE

Day three was the Heineken experience (where I learnt I don't like it...) followed by a canal trip to the A'DAM lookout which was all included in our tickets. 

DAY FOUR

Our finally day, where we decided to head back over to visit the Vincent Van Gough Museum as we didn't have time the other day to do that and the Moco Museum.

We has decided we wanted to go back to the pancake place from Tuesday so of course we had to walk back to the bench, also to check to see if the book was still there. 

(sorry for the instagram story caption, but i forgot to save the photo before adding it)

I honestly had such a wonderful holiday away (I think I definitely needed it too), by the final day we kind of knew our way around and got our bearings which was good! I would of course recommend going here to anyone as it is such a pretty place the their are some great sites to see, along with some good shops - including Primark!;) Mum and I have already decided that she wants to go to Paris so we shall have to see. Thank you so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed reading / viewing all of my photos from my lil holiday. 

Meg x