Counting down the days!!

The countdown is on until I see this gorgeous face again!! I have missed him so much and I feel bad because everyone else knows what I'm doing and where I am but to Monty, I just vanished one day and have abandoned him:( I have facetimed my family and so he has heard my voice on there and he starts looking around the house for me. It will be nearly 3 weeks and although it isn't a lot of time to some people, to me it has felt like years and I am going to saver every moment I have at home! 

I was quite worried that once I went home I wouldn't want to come back up here and carry on the way we have been but the last few days I have been excited (very excited) about going home for a visit but at the same time I have made some really nice friends already and I am super happy with our flat so I also feel like I don't want to miss too much of my life up here as well. This trip will be a little treat to keep me going until we next see everyone properly at half term. After that there are flights starting from our local airport to Newquay airport in Cornwall for quite cheap prices so that means it will be a lot easier to pop down for short breaks and also so that people can come up and visit us. 

Exciting times ahead and I am sorry if this is turning into a sort of diary for myself online and the post have been all over the place but I have been so busy with everything going on in my life at the minute I haven't really had a chance to take the photos and write the posts that I have been planning, I've just been writing them randomly and firing them out when I can. Hopefully in the coming weeks as things calm down a little I will be able to focus more on that and it is cool to live in a city and places on the campus of the Uni where I can go to little cafes and areas and do work or write a post and especially in the winter I am looking forward to doing that and having a cute warm place to shelter!  

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Living the Yorkshire life

So with all the big changes that have been happening lately it has been really nice since we have settled in and we have been able to exploring and enjoy living up here. We've been finding the balance between doing the jobs around the house, that we are both doing on our own for the first time, and then also going out and having fun and enjoying ourselves! As our town at home is surrounded by countryside and we are quite high up, moving to here which is in a valley and all quite low down I did feel slightly claustrophobic. Because of that we have had a few drives out to the countryside and up onto the high points around to escape the city! 

We also had a Sunday trip out to Hebdon Bridge which was so calming and such a nice relaxing place. We had lunch in a little pub that was in the main square and through the windows whilst we were eating you can see all the families and people wandering round the square which had a lovely big oak tree in the middle and beautifully arranged hanging pots of flowers (the proper name has completely vanished out of mind right now so thats the only way I can describe them but they were lovely). 

Since my last post I have also planned a trip home which is so exciting as I have really missed everyone and I can hardly contain my excitement for the next couple of days! I hope to have some lovely walks, trips to the beach and maybe a surfing trip so I hope to be back with another post soon! 

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A new chapter; Uni Life!

I've made the big move!! We are now living up in Huddersfield and I started uni last Monday! It has been a whole rollercoaster of emotions the last couple of weeks and I'm glad to have got to where I am now and be moving forward. This whole journey started when two weeks ago today when I left my house in Cornwall. It was hard to say goodbye to everyone (Monty especially!) and Mum and myself were quite upset which I think has been the same story with everyone else that I have talked to about when they left. It was a good journey travelling in convoy in our little cars all packed up with everything we need for our flat. We arrived at my Grandparents house just the other side of Leeds (6 and a half hours after leaving home) and spent the night there so that the next morning we could travel over to our new flat and move in!  

The first week after we moved in we spent cleaning everywhere so that we felt comfortable and so that we knew it was clean (I have since developed a worry liking to cleaning and organising and do it ALL THE TIME). The day after we moved in we made the 20 minute drive over to Batley where we experienced IKEA for the first time. Lets just say that it was a very successful visit and is now our favourite shop! We got a "day bed" for the spare room, kitchen table and chairs, coffee table, side tables and of course I needed my own dressing table as I had left my other lovely one at home. So we then had the task of putting all the flat packed furniture together which was an interesting experience. Basically, after a lot of fiddling about and waiting for our own bed to arrive and our sofas we are finally all moved in and sorted with everything we need! Today was also a very long awaited day as our broadband box arrived allowing us to rejoin the world on the internet! 

It has been very nice having my grandparents just an hours drive away (a lot closer than ever before) and I have met some really nice people on my course and have a really nice tutor and course leader which has made settling in very easy. I have so far enjoy the start of the course and the task we have been assigned to do is something I feel excited to undertake! 

We are hoping to make a flying visit down to Cornwall either this weekend or next and just catch up and see family and make missing everyone a little bit easier. 

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The start of a journey!

Today is my last day in Cornwall:( The cars are getting packed up ready for leaving for Huddersfield tomorrow morning. Its such a big change and of course its scary but it had to happen at some point but its just stepping into the unknown that is hard. It is exciting that we will have our own flat and space and be going to Uni to do something we both want to do however we will be 300 miles away from our families and it will be weeks before we see them again. I know in my head that after a few days and weeks it will completely normal but its just getting to that point. 

Right now I'm busy stressing about the final process of getting our flat and when our bed and sofas will arrive and making sure we have food in and how we will organise everything so I think it is easy in your head to want to stay how you are, in the easy and comfortable life but it is for the best! 

I can't wait to be at the point where I can look back at this bit of the process and wonder why I worried so much and look how well it turned out. But for now, just have to crack on! 

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Switzerland in a day

The Swiss adventure now! As our villa was only about 30 minutes away from the Swiss border we decided to go there for a day in search of snow and mountains and we certainly got what we wanted! 

We drove along the Simplon pass and as we did so the mountains built up around us, it really was just the best drive and then we stopped about 10 minutes into Switzerland and got out of the car to take pictures and enjoy the views. The air was just amazing, so fresh and clean and cooling but warm at the same time! 

There was our snow!! It was amazing that it was warm enough that we didn't want cardigans or jumpers and we were all in short sleeves and me and my mum in dresses but there was snow on the peaks of the mountains! 

Everywhere you looked there were things of interest and this was just one of the many waterfalls we saw. 

The blue grey glacier water just set the scene. 

We then went up in a cable car to the little town half way up the mountain, the air here was even fresher that down below and it was amazing.

We couldn't come all this way and not stop in a cafe and what a cafe it was. There were homemade goodies everywhere and we were joined by these little birds that had no fear when it came to claiming their share of the crumbs. 

We then went up in the second cable car to the top of the mountain! It was very steep and in this photo you can barley see our destination. 

We had lunch in this lovely restaurant on top of the mountain and then walked around the corner of the mountain to the glacier!

It was so spectacular to see and you could even here the water flowing beneath the glacier, it was so quiet and calm up here, it really is something that I will always remember. 

The cows and cow bells!! These had to be my favourite part of the trip. When we first got out of the car you could here to ring of the bells around their neck and this has got to be one of my favourite sounds. Writing this now I just wish I could go back and be in the fresh air and hearing the bells, it was an experience I will treasure! 

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Italy; Mountains, boats and lots of ice cream

Our trip away to Italy was so lovely and relaxing. It was very different to a lot of the other holidays we have been on as we normally have a villa with a pool and so we spend a lot of time there where as this time we were out and about most of the time! We stayed in a place called Gignese which was a little village just out of the town of Stresa on the edge of Lake Maggiore. I have visited Italy and been to Verona and Venice on a trip with school before and so it was lovely to go back because I had such a great time last time!  

We may have also eaten our body weight in ice cream and pizzas have one every day we were there! But what else can you do when in Italy?? It's tradition! We had a very nice little pizzeria in our little village we stayed in and so we could walk to there and have a one there or sometimes we took them back to the villa with us. We also had a meal in the square of the town on the lakeside and we sat under the trees with umbrella over the top and little fairy lights, it was sort of magical! 

We went down and spent a lot of time at cafes and wandering around the little unique streets and shops in the town of Stresa. We did things like boat trips to the islands on the lake and we also went up to the top of one of the mountains around the lake and went on a chair lift and rollercoaster which was so exciting and fun! 

There were all of these very posh and lavish hotels on the lakeside and they were all so lovely and nicely done it gave the whole place a look of glamour. 

Before we came to Italy this time I had it in my head that I wanted to get something from a little shop that makes wooden pieces and this was the image I had in my head! The things you can see on the outside were so nicely made and there were so many little trinkets but it was what was inside that was amazing. The walls were covered, every inch, by cookoo clocks all individual but all beautiful and as soon as you walked in you could here each and every one ticking at different times. 

And finally, this was the view from my room in our villa. It was breathtaking and being able to watch the sun rise over the mountains was the best way to start the day! 

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Long time no speak!

Sooo, it's been a while! At the start of the summer when I finished my exams I saw myself writing even more posts and really focusing on my blog however I have just gone the opposite way! I haven't done any writing or drawing or anything like that this summer. I have read a few books especially on holiday I got through a couple but what with work and then lots of other exciting things that have happened this summer I haven't stopped! 

I'll start from the beginning, so I've had lots of days spent in the sunshine at work amongst holiday makers and cream teas. I have to say it really has been so lovely to work with people that I really get on with and are all so nice and friendly and have made me feel so welcome this summer. Being at work made me really appreciate my time and days off so when I finished work I got straight home and bundled Monty into the car and off to either the beach or Lanhydrock we went to enjoy the rest of the day! 

I've got so many amazing memories this summer and although this may be boring to read for some people, for my own memories I want to make a list of some of the top things I've enjoyed doing this summer!

* Surfing with my Dad

* Days out crabbing with friends in Padstow

* Holiday in Italy

* Trip to Switzerland 

* Walks with Mum and Monty

* Days out on the boat 

Right, now onto a life update and what is actually happening right now in my life. I'll start with Uni and whilst I was away on holiday I received a text saying that I had been accepted into Huddersfield University! So when we returned to England we went straight up to stay with my grandparents and started looking at flats. After a dodgy start and a few ABSOLUTELY NOs we found the one and we are now in the process of finishing up the last few bits we should (fingers crossed) be in next week ready to start uni the week after! 

The next few posts will be about my trip away and some pictures and then after those I am going to work on having regular posts and as I am going to buy a lot of house things and putting together rooms I want it all to be documented on here! 

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