Swim until you can’t see land

I’m all freckle faced and arrived back from my holiday early evening on friday. I had a wonderful week in Corralejo (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) with my boyfriend. Picture/word heavy post as you can expect 🙂 Here we go!

Cocktails & live music.

My first time surfing outwith the UK was awesome – and warm 🙂

My surfing buddy did me proud ♥

Our neighbours around the hotel balcony, they made a hell of a noise!

Fireworks on the beach, and ones which fired across the sea and exploded on the water.

Wouldn’t be a holiday without a bit of self timer fun 🙂

Some outfit examples for in the evenings (I pretty much lived in topshop denim shorts and cropped tshirts during the day on our way to the beach and such)

I’m no fashion blogger but I thought I would share my favourite outfits from the holiday – please be gentle! The last picture is me rocking out with my £2 Primark RayBan Aviator wannabe’s. They were such a steal and I wore them every day (as they went with literally every outfit, both daytime and evening, but maybe I was just trying to convince myself I looked as cool as Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas) 

I love these wee beauties so much, but even now they are kinda on their last legs after 7 days at the beach, lazing by the pool, and being pulled in and out of my handbag in the early evenings, all with no cover/case (also, I’m not convinced that they actually protect your eyes from the sun at all…) So, I am entering a competition with Style-Passport to be in with the chance of winning a real pair of Rayban Classic Aviators. The Style Passport website is a one stop fashion and beauty store online, with clothes, accessories, beauty products etc itemised under different headings, suited to what kind of trip you are going on (city, spa, festival, beach and so on) I think its a pretty cool idea, especially for hopeless packers/holiday shoppers like myself! Each person entering has chosen a different item from the site which they would like to be in with the chance of winning, and its you ladies who do the voting to decide.

I would love to own an authentic pair of these before summer’s out and Scotland waves goodbye to the last of the proper sunshine (but hey, not that annoying sunset sunshine that gets in your eyes while driving, even in winter!) So if I post the link to my entry on their blog, as soon as it goes live, can I count on you girls to vote for me? 🙂 If you think I deserve to win them, of course (puppy dog eyes all round…)

UPDATE: You can now vote for whoever you want to win here 🙂 Voting closes on August 4th at 11.45pm.

 And Here’s a few more holiday snaps:

Jumping into the pool at night always feels far too tempting.

Coco Man 🙂

I never knew that the juice/milk inside a coconut tasted so good! And the actual coconut itsself was awesome (along with a few mouthfuls of chocolate, yum) Coco man sits there infront of you on the beach and cracks it open for you to enjoy. Excuse my sun frazzled face chubs/squashed arm and messy barnet, but this was too exciting for me to give a shit what I looked like or miss a photo opportunity! Haha.

The beach was beautiful, and our hotel ran a bus every day down to the main stretch which sat in front of massive sand dunes (which is their national park) Lots of bodyboarding and people falling over in the sea (LOLZ!) the waves were pretty messy at times.

An amazing sand sculpture back at the beach by the centre of Correlejo. How awesome is the wee fire in his nose?!

Some random handsome boy I found on the beach 😉

Our last night 🙁 We took a few self timer pictures with my slr balanced on some sun loungers, but the funniest one was when we jumped in the air High School Musical style, and I ended up punching David in the face and he fell over onto the sand! Haha the camera caught him mid fall, its such a belter of a picture but I don’t think I will be sharing it on here for now :p

I was straight back to work this weekend but have had Luisa in as my assistant so it’s certainly made it much more fun and go in that little bit quicker. Has been a bit frantic coming home and jumping straight into work again, but its been good to get back and get organised and see the guinea pigs of course ♥ We had a bit of a nightmare situation in the flat on saturday night, and our neighbours above water starting leaking (and then pretty much gushing) through our kitchen, cupboard, bathroom and hall ceiling. I couldn’t get a hold of my landlord as it was pretty late, and the neighbours wouldn’t answer the door so we had to phone the police (who managed to wake them up with lots of loud banging on the door) Luckily we caught it quick enough that its only all the light fixtures and parts of the carpets which have been damaged, and it could have been a whole lot worse if we were still on holiday at the time and not here to stop it. But to be honest, when you think about whats been happening in the news lately in Norway it puts life into perspective – a little bit of flooding in my house is pretty insignificant.

If you read all of that, I salute you! And if you have the TL;DR approach, thanks for the effort anyways 😉 Biggest hugs to all 1027 of you (and any lurkers. Say hello?) And if you’d like to vote for me to win some sweet RayBan Aviators in the Style Passport comp, please click here ♥

Ayden x