As you will know if you follow my twitter or Instagram, I recently went on a city break to Copenhagen for a few days with my boyfriend. It was a gorgeous city with much to see and do. I wanted to write up a little diary of my days there so thought I'd split this up into a few posts. First up, day one, the day we arrived and got to grips with Denmark.
We flew with EasyJet from Manchester which was super easy and no hassle at all. The flight was only an hour and a half so we touched down in no time! Instead of getting a taxi we decided we'd figure out the trains which were actually so simple as they'd put a short cut on the machines to get a ticket to central station. Easy peasy! The train took around 10 minutes so we were ready to scout out our hotel in no time.
Our hotel (First Hotel Mayfair) was very close to central station and pretty close to the rest of town including Tivoli Gardens. It was super stylish and very posh, I'd definitely recommend it to anyone considering the trip. After we'd dropped our bags and freshened up we went to explore.
Starving from having only had our breakfast at Manchester Airport, we set out to find somewhere to eat. We picked the first good place we saw which happened to be MAD (Modern American Diner), Copenhagen's very own American Diner. Except it doesn't look like the American diner's I know you are thinking of - red booths, cheesy music and chirpy Americans serving food. It was much slicker with an orange colour scheme, clean interior and great service. With my new found love of bacon, I decided to go for the smoked bacon and cheeseburger, whilst Matt went for the Philly cheesesteak sandwich and we shared sweet potato fries. And oh what fries they were. We both agreed that they were the best sweet potato fries we had ever tasted. Seriously you need to go just for these.
It was gorgeous food which had us all fired up for a walk into the centre to do some shopping. We came across all the usual tourist shops, takeaway food joints but then we also found many clothes shops. Some were pretty naff but one that I particularly fell in love with was Monki.
It is the sister brand of Cheap Monday, which you might have heard of as they are stocked in Urban Outfitters, which is also a Scandanavian brand. Their clothes were very simple but had gorgeous autumn colours and great comfy fabrics. I tried on a few things but nothing felt right until I spotted a gorgeous oversized green coat. I was pretty much in love and had to buy it right away. It cost around £50 which I think is average for a coat in England so it wasn't much more expensive than people think.
As we went for our walk we spotted Nyhavn, a gorgeous waterfront street surrounded by amazing coloured houses. It was so pretty and scenic - lots of pictures were taken! We also stumbled on my new favourite convenience store, 7-Eleven. You may have seen or heard of 7-Eleven before in relation to America, I certainly had. I didn't, however, realise how amazing they were going to be. They had slushie machines (one with Cocio), fresh pastries, healthy food and drinks like smoothies and juices and a whole bunch of other sweets and snacks. I just loved it. The variety of stuff was amazing and I eventually got a Cocio slushie which was like a super cold milkshake. Mmmm.
We went to bed pretty early because we'd woken so early to drive to Manchester to get our flight. Day two was the day of lots of attractions so it will be split into two posts...
I've only just moved out this year into a house of my own my boyfriend. We are pretty similar in our tastes and want our house to look very sleek and simple yet stylish. At present we have only fully redecorated two rooms in our house but we've put our stamp on the others in many different ways.
We have a good-sized two bedroom semi-detached house in the North East that we picked because of the quiet location, lovely garden and the potential we saw for each of the rooms. I've already done a tour around my living room and bathroom in previous posts but I've not touched on our bedroom. Your bedroom is somewhere you come to relax, snuggle and have dreams about anything and everything.
I've come to have a real love for the colour blue and it seems to appear in all my interior design ideas. For the bedroom, I didn't want it to be too girly so we went with a deep dark blue for our accent wall. The other walls are painted a creamy colour rather than white because of the stark contrast this would have created. I brought my bed with me from my old house but we bought new furniture. All from Ikea, but all beautiful and sleek in white. I think the white bedside tables and set of draws look great against the dark blue wall as it provides a bit of brightness.
In addition to the main items in the room, we also have little knick-knacks such as a stand to present my perfumes, a little vintage flower bowl to hold my rings and our two matching white touch lamps. What I like most about this room is our canvas that sits on the wall above the bed. I got this canvas made for my boyfriend last Valentine's day and it has been packaged away until we got into our house. I feel like this is the perfect place to for it to be as it quotes one of our favourite songs - Arctic Monkeys, I Wanna Be Yours.
So there you have it, the inspiration for my bedroom and the explanation behind all the little things in it. Hillary's Blinds are asking everyone what is the story behind their home.
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I've been cooking up a storm recently, stalking recipes from here, there and everywhere - but mainly Pinterest! I wanted to share a few recipes I've tried and loved so that you too can try them and know they've been tested!
First up is Carrot and lentil soup. It is such a filling dish with some great depth of flavour. It's super tasty and really easy to make. If you are into making soups I'd definitely suggest this one for the autumn/winter months.
Next is a gorgeous substitute to ice cream that is totally milk-free! Banana, chocolate and peanut butter 'ice cream' is made with a base of frozen banana blended with peanut butter and chocolate chips to add flavour. The recipe that I've linked to is for a coffee version but you can add whatever you like or eat plain banana flavour.
Trying new chicken recipes is something I like doing as the same can get really boring. When I saw a recipe for Pesto Chicken it gave me the inspiration I need. However I didn't follow the recipe, I simply covered the chicken in pesto and put it in the oven. It did get a bit greasy as the pesto heated up but it tasted amazing.
As I want to get into healthy breakfasts whilst trying not to get boring I came across these Healthy pancakes. A lot of recipes for healthy pancakes you come across on Pinterest either don't work or they include too many nasties. This recipe works perfect and tastes good too.
Last up was something I adapted from the usual chicken stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon, instead I wrapped it in chorizo. It is made by cutting into the chicken to create a pocket in which the cheese can be piled into, scoop the cheese in then close it back up and wrap in chorizo making sure to overlap to ensure it stays wrapped in the oven. So yummy but not very healthy...
Have you tried out any Pinterest recipes recently you can recommend? Follow my healthy eating pinterest board to see what I've been pinning!
