10 km of Brussels 2016!

Hey guys!

Yesterday, my little sister and I participated to the 10 km of Brussels. We decided 2 or 3 months ago to redo the challenge and retry it and hopefully do it better than last year.

Last year, it was really a big challenge because we didn't knew that it was that hard, that you needed ore than motivation,... We finished it in 1 hour and 8 minutes (I did) and my sister in 1 hour and 9 minutes.



This year, the weather was really awfull till it started, than suddenly the sun shined till 5 minutes away from the end, lucky us!

We both did it in an hours and 2 minutes but less dead than last year, we we're prepared to that!

I'm really proud of us and surely thankfull to my little sister who helped me having the motivation till the end!

There was this awesome place after the run, I thought I found heaven for a few minutes.

This was the mascotte of the year, I kinda love it, like you can see it.

XOXO
Love of Lou!

CityTrip: London 2016 - part 1

Hey guys!

If you had read my last blogpost, you probably know that I just came back from London! I dreamt about it since I'm back from the last time and it was even better!

Friday, the 5th February, I received my points (who where a little deception, sadly) and then I was preparing me to go with a good friend to London!

We took a train to Bruxelles-Midi in the morning (round 11 AM) and arrived there more than an hour in advance... Luckily! Enough time to check all our social media, to pass all those checks, .. And then, on the train to the city of Dreams!
When we arrived, we took the tube to our lovely hotel (near the Tower Bridge) but we accidently took the one to the London Bridge so we had to walk the whole Queen's Walk with our bagages..

Hard walk and happy to arrive finally at our hotel! Because we took a lot of time to get there, we just dropped our bagages, admired our hotelroom and get immediatly back outside.

We began to visite The Queen's walk (properly this time), Tower of London and Tower Bridge, Borough Market, Shakespeare's Globe, Millenium Bridge, Tate Modern and St Pauls Cathedrale.

Borough Market was really cute, like a little intern Market with a lot of food, so we stopped and eat something (we weren't really hungry but we wanted to try a lot of English or weird things)

After that we visited Tate Modern, what I really wanted to do since the last time because a lot of people talked about it and it seem to be awesome. And really, this was probably one of the hightlights of the trip, I was like a little child receiving presents from Santa! It was so wonderful, so magic ... I didn't even knew I liked Modern Art that much.

 

 After that, we took the bus to Aldwych, the place to be for Musicals becauseeee we were going to watch Mamma Miaaaa! We had to be there before 19.45 for our tickets, so we took our tickets and went to Covent Garden till the begin of the Musical.

Covent Garden was dynamic like every night: artists in the hall, shoppings still open, cute little shops in Covent, Apple store still alive,... We found a little cute shops who sell a lot of tea's and hot chocolate. I thought I would buy the whole store!

 
After our little tour here, we went back to the Novello Theatre for the musical. Sadly, we weren't alowed to take pictures there. It was so lovely and good, if all musicals where like that, well, I'll went more to it!

After the musical, we had to went back to our hotel by taking bus 15 but we had like the feeling that we were waiting that bus FOR EVER, but after an halfhour (yes, normally they're there every 5 min, but not that day) he finally cames and we went finally back to our hotel. It was a hard day but already full of memories, full of laughs and good moments!

 Do you want to know what happened the day after? Stay tuned because part 2 is coming soon!

What did you think about it ? I hope you liked it! x

Love of Lou!

P.S. find my video about London here.

Back to The City of Dreams!

Hey everyone!

I'm really excited and motivated to study since yesterday evening becauseeeeee yesterday I booked my Thalys, hotel and a musical for LONDON! Finally I'm going back to that city that still have my heart.

The first time I went there was when I was 12 between Christmas and New Year. I went with an organisation, called Topvakantie, and my best friend of then. It was totally magic and I was so in love with that city.

Last time I went to London was 2 years ago with my family after my exams in the summer. It were 3 perfect days! A real dream...

Since then, the only thing I want is going back but never had the chance (nobody wanted, not enough money, not the good time,...). And not so long ago I was talking to a friend who said to me "I want to do a citytrip, I think it would be fun" so then we decided to go to London.
The hardest choice is, I think, still the one of which dates are we going? First we wanted to go 4 days, but my points from my exams those days online and I didn't want to be in London then... So we finally decided to go the 5th of February till the 7th.

Our Hotel is also totally amazing! It's placed near the Tower Bridge, just before the "Girl with a Dolfin" statue and on the back we have a Starbucks, perfect for every morning!

And then, the last thing: I'm going finally to a Musical in London. That's also a thing I really wanted to do and it's one I wanted to see the most: Mamma Mia.


So, I'm going to quit you with this beautiful news, hope you liked. The coming weeks I'm probably posting a little bit more because I'm studying at home for my exams.

( A picture of me taken by my sister in the apartment we were)

Love of Lou!

Sinterklaas!

Hey you!

So, yesterday was the day that most of the Dutch kids wait a whole year : 6th of Decembre when Sinterklaas comes! I realised that it's only a tradition in the Netherlands/Belgium/... and find it very sad that not every kid could have that great day. (For the people who don't know what it is: Sinterklaas is a old man who comes every year to bring every kid a present if they were gentle that year)

This year, like all the years before, I received some presents that I wanna share with you.

The first one is a little bracelet with a bit (for a horse) totally in leather. I was looking for one like this since a while and this one is just so classic and classy, I love it!

The second one is Hollister Jogging in pink. First of all I think what? I don't use that kind of things ... But my mom said "yeah, I thought it was a good idea, now that you'll be studying all day, it's more comfi and still fancy" and indeed! Since yesterday, I don't wear a jean or a legging but that jogging!

The third one is a Cotton Bag from The Brussels Corner. I have done some shootings for The Brussels Corner a while ago, and I really love that one bag! I wanted a cotton bag also so this was the perfect match!

The last one and the best one is... A Pink Fluffy Unicorn CherryStone ! That was also a present I first thought what?! A teddybear ? But then I saw what it was and damn I was immediatly in love with it!

This were my presents for this year, what about you? Do you also celebrate Sinterklaas?

Love of Lou!


Girl online: Hidden behind a Blog.

Hi guys!

As you may maybe know, I'm a great Youtuber & Vlogger fan.They are great inspiration for my Instagram and also the reason why I'm doing this. I love watching them doing stupid things, talking about life & become bigger one by one. This last one is proved by this blogpost: Zoella wrote a book (and since shortly also a second).

I received the book for my birthday from some friends (I swear, still one of the best present ever) and I reread, reread and reread it again!

The book is talking about a girl, Penny, who's holding a blog to share her most shameful, nicest,etc moments. Nobody knows she is the "GirlOnline". After a big misstep (falling in front of a crowd with her underwear showed), her parents decided to celebrate Christmas in New York. Her mother has to organise a wedding there. Penny met a boy, Noah, with who she's immediatly in love with. She describes the whole love story on her blog. But that love story could be the end of her cover on her blog and the end of her closest, dearest friendship.

In the beginning, I had a little bit hard with reading it, I found it very childish and thought "nah, it's gonna be a typical little girl story" but when I start a book, I Always end it. So did I here, and the last 200 pages where read in just an evening... Once she was in New York, it all began to be exciting and interesting. Penny, the funny one, I think most of the people love her because they can recognise them in her (who didn't do a misstep ever in his life he will never forget?) and that is why I found her the perfect GirlOnline. Noah is the perfect bookboy, the one every girl wants to meet. Romantic, surprising,.. Perfect! And then you have Elliott, the best friend of Penny, my favourite personage. He's the one who helped Penny up, a funny one,.. He gives the story those little "extras" why you love it a little bit more.

Did you read it (Girlonline or GirlOnline On tour) ? What's your opinion of it?

Love of Lou!

My Starbucks'mug collection!

Hi guys!

The ones who follow me on Instagram do probably know that I'm in love with mugs from the Starbucks. My dad went to 2 work trips and he Always bringing us back some little souvenirs from the place he went. He also know that it's very hard to make me happy with a typical souvenir and that I'm totally loving Starbucks, he began to bring me back some mugs of it from the places he has been. And I must admit, that's sooooo much better than a typical souvenur!

So this is my tiny little collection, that hopefully will getting bigger:

1. A closed mug from Russia.

This one is probably the one I use the most. He came back with it saying it will be so easy for me to take my coffee with me when I have to leave home early in the morning. First, I thought, yeah for sure, I'm not taking my coffee with me, but when you have to leave home at 6 AM, I found this one a treasure!

It's looking great, I love that typical Russian doll, the colors are also beautiful.It's also closable (a point that you find the advantages once you use this kind of mugs). The only disadvantage of this mug is that it doesn't hold your drink warm.. Really regrettable, otherwise it would have been perfect!

2. A Christmas mug from Berlin.
My favourite one! My dad brought it back from Berlin and I just totallly love it. Even if you can bought it here and stuff. It's making Christmas coming closer...

There is one big disadvantage: the handle is really slim and fragile. I think it's gonna break too early :(





3. The basic Starbucks mug (from Bruges).

This one I didn't receive from my dad but friends of my parents who wanted to thanks my parents (and so also us, my sisters and I), they all give us some presents. Mine was a basic Starbucks mug, the first one ever. I have this one since a year I think, and my parents begin to know I'm really grumpy in the morning if I don't have my coffee in a Starbucks mug.


Q: Do you have a favourite brand of mugs or some Starbucks mug? Let me know!

Love of Lou!

 

 

My New Student Life

Hi Guys!

Maybe some of you will know that since Septembre I begin a new chapter of my studentlife: I'm an university student now.
On the end of the 6th grade everybody Always asked me: What do you want to do in life? Do you have made your choice? Are you sure it is the good one? But I was pretty sure of my choice: since 2 years I wanted to study Physiotherapy.

So in the end of Septembre I begin this study in Ghent. I will alwyas remember that first day of university: my lessons began on 1 PM, I thought "Hell yeah, I like that!". But as Always, I wasn't on time. I didn't find a parking for my car on the station, so I missed my train and I would be too late in the introduction part and I had to find my auditory. When I finally arrived there, I didn't find anyone I knew. It was such a terrible, lonely day. I totally didn't want to go back again.

Now, things changed, luckily! I find some people back I know from my previous school, I met some nice people and made some friends. I know where to park my car now and I'm better planned than that first day!
Some days, when my lessons begin at 8 and half AM, I have to wake up at 5 and half AM. Otherdays, I come out of the auditory and it begins already to be dark outside. Other days I do one and a half hour back and one and a half hour forth for just one lesson, that I really cannot miss.
Nevertheless, even if it's hard and I don't know if I'm going to pass, I'm happy with the choice I made and I hope it's going to work.

Q: How was your back to school?

I hope you enjoyed this little post today, that's kind of different of normally, and if I don't post a lot the last time, it is because I have really no time because of school.

Love of Lou!

Travel || Corsica 2015 - Part 3.

Hey you!

Here we are again, beginning with the moment we discoverd Porto Vecchio. It was a beautiful city, I loved it! There was an citadel, who is higher and where you have an incredible view, and there is the port, with all his little restaurants, boats to hire, etc. Just lovely. (We went to this port like 2 times in the evening for an ice cream, I just loved the ambience that it had! ) Just one disadvantage: it was steep everywhere in this city. When you have to walk from one point of the city to another, it's like you have to climb a mountain, haha.


Next day, Boni Facio was on our planning. Seen as one of the biggest tourist cities, we began to visit it. Beautiful, also a little bit higher than the places around it, and with that view.... stunning! But, like a lot of cities in Corsica, there wasn't a lot to visit ...



Our last day in Rondinara we're going to ride till Alta Rocca to visit there a little bit of the villages with there typical Corsican culture. We've even visited a nice museum, who's name I don't know anymore I'm sorry. Big disappointment when we arrived in Sainte-Lucie de Tallano: there was like a lot to visit but everything was closed in Septembre :( Then we wanted to see Cuccurruzi, but you had to walk like 2 hours and we were afraid it wasn't worth it. So, we finally ended this day of long rides with a little walk along the natural pools of Zonza. I found this looking like a fairy tale...



Last stop before we went back was Calvi: the north of Corsica.
We took a long time to go from Rondinara to Calvi, I was mostly of the time asleep, again. Once there, we had a cute camping, Camping de Paduella. I really loved this one! Near everything, with not a lot of persons, perfect area,... Once installed, we went to the beach (it wasn't even 5 min walking). We were lying on the beach and then suddenly, the train passed near us, really weird ahah. They don't really understand it I think.

Next day, we were taking a look in l'Ile Rousse. It was still like a typical Corsican city: little Streets, shops everywhere, a church,... I liked it, but it was just feeling so the same at the end. We've also done here a really long walk till the headlight so I can take my pictures haha.


Last day of real holidays, and I've begin it really cool: I went for the first time in my life diving undersea. It was just magic! The city (Calvi) from seaside is so different but under the sea... waw! I saw a lot of fishes and also a red starfish. After this beautiful experience, we visited the city in a rush and then leave it again to go to Ajaccio, where it all beginned.

The day after, we left the Island and we were back on the continent. It was a beautiful city, a nice experience and a wonderful holiday!

Q: Did you ever went on holiday without your parents ? How was it?

Love of Lou!

Travel || Corsica 2015 ~ Part 2.

Hey guys!

So, here I'm back again. So we finished last time with saying that that one Saturday we went on a boattrip. Well, we woke up really early for holidays, like 7 PM. Once arrived there, I couldn't find my sun cream anymore (and knowing I can be in the sun for like 10 minutes and already look like a tomato, this was realllyyyy a problem). After searching and stressing, I finally found it in the bag of my friend. Yes, it was really early in the morning. Than, we installed ourself in the boat and begin the whole trip. It was wonderful, we saw a lot of beaches, natural or where tourists doesn't go. Also a lot of "Calanques'' (it are like rocks in the sea, where you can have some caves, etc.). We lunched at a lonely beach with a nice giant rock in front of us. Mostly of the people who where with us climbed it and so do I. Little, courageous me. Than in the afternoon, we visited still some nice and cute places. And then, we swim in some like transparant, blue water with fishes. Really crazy! We didn't really see a dolphin, just once the back of one... I hoped to see a whole group of it.


Next day, we went for a more cultural trip. We went to Sartène, seen as the most beautiful city of Corsica and also with a lot of cultural spots. First, we went to the museum there. Just to arrive there, it was like Climbing a mountain. Nice museum, but we needed to continu. So, we did a walk throught Sartène. It was a beautiful city, but for that calling it most beautiful city? Nah. Than, we continued to Cauria, a prehistoric city, called one of the most impressive of Corsica. Just to arrive there, we had to face like the end of the world: roads that aren't finished, places where there is just one house in the kilometre you ride, the GPS who was totally lost,.. When we finally arrived, we had to park our car and walk a lot.... for a few stones. Nothing waw, nothing impressive, haha! It was beautiful view to be honest, but the stones where nothing. So we decided to discover Olmeto, who was litteraly a beautiful view, a church and some cute houses.















It's Saturday, and today, we're leaving our beautiful little camping to go to Rondinara, one of the most beautiful beaches of the Island and near Bonifacio and Porto Vechhio. The first day we just enjoyed the beach. Next day, we discover Porto Vecchio... But I'm gonna leave you know.

Do you like the views? Do you wanna go there ?

Love of Lou!

 

Travel || Corsica 2015

Hi guys! So, I promised to make a post soon about my holidays in Corsica and I still haven't done it. What a shame.. Some months ago, a friend of mine told me she searched someone to go with her to Corscia. I searched since a few days a friend to go on holiday with without having an idea of which country I wanted to visit. When she told me that, I agreed going to Corsica with her without any idea of what kind of country Corsica was. But a country you haven't visit already has to be visit! So I asked people around me who has been there, what they have seen, what they thought of it,etc. A lot of people said it was amazing there, that the views are more than awesome and I would like it.

We began to organise the trip a little bit: booking the boat, searching the roads, finding some camping,... (Oh yeah, I forgot to tell: we wanted to do it all camping, just for fun) Only that was already a big deal for me because I always went on holiday with my parents organizing it (and if you know how good my mom can plan, you know I didn't have to think about planning).

And then, Saturday 5th of Septembre, we woke up early (on 4:00 AM!) and did Thousand and a little bit more kilometers, throught 5 countries to arrive in Nice (We have seen in one day: Belgium, France, Suisse, Italy and Luxembourg!) I slept a lot in the car, just woke up for eating and taking pictures, because there is no better place to sleep than in a car! Once arrived in Nice, we slept in a little Hotel, Ibis Budget for the night. The next day we woke up early enough to visit Nice before taking our boat to Corsica. I had never seen Nice before that's why I was happy that we finally visit it and I liked it! Beautiful Streets with cute little shops and a lot of people what give it a nice atmosphere! In the afternoon we left the continent and arrived in Ajaccio only in the evening. There we slept in a Original, artistic "Chambre d'Hôtes". The next day we visited Ajaccio, the city where Napoleon Bonaparte lived, and in the afternoon we immediatly went to Olmeto.




When we finally arrived in Olmeto, after riding in the most horrible, typical mountain ways, we installed ourself in our camping, Vigna Maggiore. Perfect swimpool, cute driveways with a lot of flowers and little, nice reception. Really a dreamcamping! After been totally installed, we enjoyed our nice swimpool with lovely view (and fresh water, finally!). The next day, we went visiting Propriano, who's literally the opposing mountain of Olmeto. Cute little city, with a lot of shops for tourists and at the end a beautiful beach! So, we ended our day on the beach of Propriano. Which was really nice because when we swom or snorkelled, you saw a lot of fishes just swimming next to you. When we were on our way back, we saw some promotions to make a boattrip to see the coasts of Corsica. They also told us that, somedays, we saw dauphins! So, we planned a trip for Thursday.

Q: Do you want to know how the boattrip was ? Do you want to know if we saw dauphins, how our trip ended?

Check my blog regulary and stay informed!

Love of Lou! x

International Coffee DAY 2015!

Hello you there!

So as you know, if you follow me on instagram, is that I'm addicted to coffee in every form: Latte, Cappuccino, Frappuccino,.. You could drink a coffee every moment of the day, every season! I'm not only addicted just to coffee, but also to the Coffeestore Starbucks. I love every coffee they make and I could spend every day there! I think I'm not the only one how does feel like this about this coffeeshop.

So today was the International Coffee Day and Starbucks gave away a free Latte for everyone who came in the shop between 9:00 and 11:00... Ofcourse, I had planned something and couldn't be there on time but it didn't hold me to go there.

For this occasion, I thought of sharing my top 3 of my favourites Starbucks.

 

1. Caramel Coffee Jelly Frappuccino.

A cold creamy caramel blended Frappuccino with coffee jelly, finished with a delicious cream topping and caramel drizzle, yes that is the Caramel Coffee Jelly Frappuccino. This one stole my heart in Kopenhagen this summer, it was damn hot but I wanted a coffee badly. Perfect for a warm summer day like that one! (Sometimes I wish it was summer again to drink one of them again...)

2. Caramel Macchiato

The whole year, this is my heartbreaking one, I love it and Always will! Mostly of the time I drink coffe with the taste of Caramel, because they are the best ones. But a Macchiato, an Espresso with freshly steamed milk, is better than Cappuccino's, Espresso's,etc. Here they don't only put an Espresso with steamed milk but also a vanilla-flavourd syrup with an Caramel drizzle again (I really do like this last one).

3. Pumpkin Spice Latte.

The autumn is back with his cold days, red leaves and... the Pumpkin Spice Latte. An Espresso with milk and flavor notes of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg topped with whipped cream and real pumpkin pieces is really the musthave for these days! I tried it while I was learning in the Starbucks between two lessons and I was pleasantly surprised. The pumpkin is such a good taste in combination with the coffee and the cinnamon mades it perfectly matched all together. If you have the occasion to drink this one one of these days, don't hesitate, it is a real journey just drinking this little coffee!


What is your favourite coffee in The Starbucks? Did you try one of these ones?

I hope you enjoyed reading this (and that you're wanting a Starbucks now), blogposts about Corsica and all the pics are coming soon!

Love of Lou!

Throw Back: Danmark 2015

Hellow there!

Now that I have prepared Corsica, I think back of the awesome time I had in Danmark, the beautiful things I've seen, (the easy I had because my parents planned everything) etc.

So I thought why not sharing some pictures of it with you?

 

I loved the Streets there. With those lamps hanging above your head. I loved it!

This was the magical sunset of Roskilde. One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my life. My parents took me there saying it would be magic, that there where no better places to take pictures. Well Indeed, I admitt: it was magic! The sky begins to be first orange, than it changes in pink and finally in a pastel blue/pink palet. The sun also never really falls into the sea. It just disappears at some moment... really something you have to see in your life!



This is Nyhavn, one of the most famous places in Copenhagen (you can also see it in Pitch Perfect 2). I loved the place, we did a little tour on a boat there, really nice but so typical touristic. Haha

 

 ... And all those other places, that where beautiful each one of them. that makes that country so exeptional and wonderfull.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Love of Lou!