Travel Diary: Autumn days in Edinburgh

Edinburgh has been on my travel-list for so long! So this autumn we finally booked our flights and I am so glad that we did - as it's become one of my favorite cities! It was such an amazing few days, cold, a bit of rain and even the sun came out! We had a very cute Airbnb in the Grassmarket area, located between two bookshops. From our living room we could see the Edinburgh castle, which was perfect!

Right after arriving at the airport, we took a bus that brought us to the city. Everything was easy and uncomplicated. We directly found a cute pizza restaurant called "Woodland" where we had finally lunch after 9 hours. We enjoyed yummy elderflower and raspberry lemonade, olives, pizza and veggie pasta.

I totally fell in love with this Bowie picture 

We started our mornings slow, enjoying earl grey tea and toast with hummus and cucumbers.

On our first real day we went (after breakfast) to the National Museum of Scotland. It was not that far away from our Airbnb place so we could easily walk there. We passed Grassmarket and the Greyfriars graveyard, Greyfriars Bobby and we were there. The entry was free and we spent the whole morning looking at animals, minerals and other interesting things.

The Grassmarket was not far away from our home, there was a vegan café called Pumpkin Brown Café, where we enjoyed pumpkin spice latte and hot cocoa.

I also went to Armstrongs Vintage shop at the Grassmarket. They have a huge collection of all vintage things you can imagine.

We walked down to Dean Village which is really worth seeing. The houses are cute and you can walk by the riverside of the water of Leith.

We visited the Waterstones Booksellers shop quite a lot. They have an amazing selection of books, I especially fell in love with the poetry and crime (Sherlock Holmes, victorian crime stories) sections. I of course bought books here: Ariel by Sylvia Plath, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and The Dun Cow Rib - A Very Natural Childhood by John Lister-Kaye.

And we also visited the Waterstones Café upstairs. First time it was super full and we couldn't get one of the popular tables at the window (from where you have a fantastic castle view). The following day we came early and we snatched a window table! The pumpkin spice latte was super delicious!

Coffee and cake time at The Elephant house. This café is also the birthplace of Harry Potter. This place seemed a bit over hyped, coffee and cake were delicious though and they sell nice postcards.

Armchair books. This bookshop was just right next to our Airbnb apartment. A cute little shop full of books, also antique ones. I didn't buy anything here.

Autumn Days

Hello everybody,

finally it's autumn time again. It is quite warm for this season this year, but anyways I am already getting cosy at home. I got myself some pumpkin spice scented candles and little deco pumpkins for the apartment. ✧

Lately I used to spent my saturday afternoons in the bookshop. I just love to stroll around, have a look at notebooks, magazines and new books to discover. I fell in love with so many and already bought a bunch:

Supernatural Sherlocks - Nick Rennison

The Strings of Murder - Oscar De Muriel

Palast der Finsternis - Stefan Bachmann

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Spinner - Benedict Wells

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling

Can't wait to read them this fall...

I also sat in the bookshop café quite a lot, sipped on milky coffee or pumpkin spice latte, enjoyed some salted caramel cheesecake and watched the leaves fall outside.

Pumpkin Spice

Hello darlings,

autumn is just around the corner, and I am so happy about it! 

I am a total autumn person, I just love when it's getting cozy inside with tea and books. Today I made a batch of vegan chocolate chip cookies which we enjoyed with some hot chocolate.

A few days ago I went to my favorite bookshop and bought myself the new illustrated "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone". Harry Potter just belongs to stormy and chilly autumn days in my oppinion. I guess that's also why we plan to watch all of the movies during fall. 

I also went to Lush to get myself some bathing stuff. I bought the "Twilight" bath bomb and the "Spicy Pumpkin" bathmelt. Both smell totally divine!

Some pumpkin spice scented candles, small deco pumpkins and a new notebook also moved in here.

Autumn, I am ready for you!

Meeting my Soulsister again

So this was a very special july week. My friend Roosa from Finland came visiting me from the first till the seventh of july! Last time we've seen each other was last October. So I was really happy to finally spent time with her again.

On our first day we went for lunch to the Sushi Bar to have some good food together with my boyfriend, who had some free time from university so he could join us. Sushi is always good, isn't it? After that Roosa and me went to the botanical gardens. I really wanted to show that place to her and especially in summer, when everything's in bloom, it's the perfect place. We took tons of photos, all the flowers were so pretty. We also visited the green houses, where cacti, succulents and other desert plants grew. This was such a hot day, so we couldn't stay in the green houses for too long. We got really thirsty so we went into a cute café, that we found on our way back to the city, for some chilly ginger rhubarb lemonade.

Back in the city I showed my favorite asian tea shop to her. We bought a few things, incense, tea, a cup and a cute black n white bowl. Of course we also couldn't resist all the card shops on our way and ended up buying lots of cards again. A visit in my fav bookshop is a must and they also sell lots of english books. We ended up buying two books each, Roosa got "Milk and Honey" by Rupi Kaur & "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, I got "The Pearl that broke it's shell" by Nadia Hashimi & "The Bookshop" by Penelope Fitzgerald.

The rest of the week the weather stayed that hot, but nevertheless we tried to do as many things as possible: We ate lots of yummy food (at home and in some restaurants), went to the forest nearby, bought vinyls, watched movies, listened to our favourite music, had warm summer evenings on my balcony with our painting stuff, candles and wine, talked a lot, laughed a lot and just enjoyed our reunion.

It was an unforgettable week and it was hard to say goodbye at the airport. But I know that of course we will meet again soon and spend the best quality time together again.

March favourites

My favourites for this month are already really springlike. I am having enough of this cold and wet weather, so in need of warmer days.

1. I really love denim dresses. This one has a button-up line and a cute belt which gives a Little vintage touch to this Zara dress.

2. I am a real handcream junkie. I would say that I am using tons of it. This Hand balm by the brand "Yard etc" smells of dog roses which already reminds me of summer.

3. The other companion to the jeans jacket: The corduroy jacket. I think also this piece has a vintage-look which I absolutely love! It's from Monki.

4. A book: "The lost words" by Robert Macfarlane. "The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration of nature words and the natural world they invoke..."

5. I really like woven shoes. These ones seem to be perfect for summer and would make a good fit to the jeans dress and the jacket ( :