Holiday Planning

I am crying out for a holiday so badddd! I feel so exhausted at the moment what with going straight from my second year of university and exams into a 12 week internship! A holiday is exactly what the doctor ordered but sadly I have to wait until the end of August to go. When I think about it 10 weeks isn't too long a time and I am really grateful to be going away but I wish it was just that little bit sooner. We are going to Portugal and I'm already excited! Ironically I am scared of flying but I make myself do it because living in England I would go mad if I didn't flee to the sun at least once a year!

Hearing about everyone else's amazing trips abroad have made me crave a holiday this year more than most. So many people at work are either on holiday, have just got back or are going in the next couple of weeks. Being a student many of my friends are also spending the summer interrailing or exploring the world. Part of me wishes I could go too but landing an internship at a marketing agency isn't likely to come round too often so I am grateful for the opportunity I have been given.

As if one holiday to Portugal is not enough, me and my boyfriend are going to book a late deal abroad somewhere in September time once our internships have finished and the schools have gone back. We are hoping that will make it doubly cheap but that we will still have a good choice of places to go. I only have two criteria for my holiday: sunshine and sea.

I created a collage of places I'd love to visit for inspiration and to get me thinking about where we could go...

Top left: Croatia, Top middle: Croatia, Top right: Croatia, Centre left: Tenerife, Centre middle: Italy, Centre right: Lanzarote, Bottom left: Ibiza, Bottom middle: Malta, Bottom right: Italy

Having done a bit research I have been most drawn to Croatia so at the moment it has jumped to the top of my list of destinations to ask the travel agent about

My Busy Day

Since I moved home from uni for the summer a couple of weeks ago I have been working on my internship at a marketing agency near to my house. It's been really intense since I went straight from exams into the internship so I was really relieved to take the day off yesterday even if it was to travel back to Nottingham to collect my results for 2nd year. I also had to do one last clean of my room in my student house so that I could hand my keys back to my landlord. I'm moving to a different house next year with a few different girls which I'm really excited about so I couldn't leave anything in Nottingham and had to bring it all home with me.

After packing everything up we headed back home and no sooner had we arrived than me and my boyfriend had gotten straight on the train into Birmingham to go shopping. Due to my busy workload I haven't really had any chance to go clothes shopping for the past 2 months so I was dying to go! The main purpose of our shopping trip however was to buy a present for my boyfriend's sister whose birthday it is today. Happy Birthday Laura if you ever read this!

We then rushed over to Laura's flat in the Mailbox in Birmingham to give her the presents we'd bought her and then all made a mad dash back to my boyfriend's house so that we could get ready to go out for a meal in the evening. We went to a meditteranean restaurant called Ego in Lichfield which we'd been to once before and loved the first time. Once again, it lived up to our expectations and the food was yummy, the atmosphere lively and the view across the lake lovely. So all in all it was a very enjoyable but hectic day. Now I'm looking forward to a day of rest tomorrow before we go out in the evening to celebrate Laura's birthday in a few bars in Birmingham.