Dear readers,

I don't know how I often already wrote about it. But I can repeat myself all over again that I'm hating winter that much. Of course, I love Christmas and the winter holidays, but every outside activity even going to college or to work is so exhausting.

So, I want to talk about one of my favourite themes T R A V E L . It's like telling old stories and in this little story, Niclas and I travelled to La Pineda y Barcelona.



And it was wonderful. The sun, the beach, the country and its culture. Firstly, we were in La Pineda. A wonderful place to stay. Sandy beach, friendly people and culinary delicacy. Even in the night La Pineda was an interesting place. Beside the beachwalk in sunset, we can admire the artist on the street with inventive paintings.

Trips and sightseeing mustn't miss on vacations, so I booked a trip on a catamaran and I bought cards for the theme park Port Aventura.

We were a little bit disappointed of the catamaran, because we expected too much. We had one of the best catamaran trips in Turunc and it's definitely not comparable. But the best part of La Pineda was definitely the theme park Port Aventura. We bought the express ticket, so we didn't need to stand in line and we could try out the main attractions.




One of the last trips was in Barcelona. As La Pineda is near Barcelona, we had to visit Barcelona as well. But no sight seeing trip as we already were in Barcelona before. But it was a little too hectic for me. I couldn't even enjoy shopping, because of lack of time I couldn't visit every shop I listed.



Spain is always a good destination for european, who doesn't really know where to travel to. It is payable even for students and you mostly have sunshine and beach.

Dear readers,

for a couple of years ago, Niclas and I went on a short trip to Noord-Holland. This trip was my present for him on our 2nd anniversary. And since autumn arrived in Germany I remembered the lovely weekend we spent there.




We arrived Akersloot in the late evening and went to dinner in a classic steakhouse. It was unbelievable delicious and the atmosphere was prickling.
On the next day I showed him Amsterdam with a city tour by foot. Amsterdam is a beautiful small city, but full of tourism. To end the trip perfectly, we went to a coffeeshop. I think, you already know, what we'd done there.




The last day, we visited the provincial town Alkmaar for the famous funny Grachtentour. The bridges are so flat we had to duck our head. Alkmaar is very famous for their cheese, but unluckily the cheese market already ends in september. It was wonderful though. We went through the small place and their alleys with a lot of shopping possibilities.

We left Alkmaar early enough to see the sunset in Egmond aan Zee. A small town at the beach of the Netherlands. It was very windy and cold, but in my boyfriends arms, I felt the warmth and a lot of love. And a hot chocolate in a beach bar gave me warmth.




Our last supper in Noord-Holland was wonderful. I invited Niclas to the fish restaurant near the bay in Egmond. The restaurant is really pretty furnished and I just felt comfortable.

We thought a lot about it to spend our winter holidays there as well. Since we decided to miss out the summer trip this year, I will post more about the trips we already made.

Dear readers,

the best trip so far is definitely the trip with my little sister to Abu Dhabi. We were excited for this trip months before it started. It wasn't even expensive at all, as we were travelling out of season time. We also booked our trips and planned everything at home. The first time we travel to UAE.



My sister and I stayed in the luxury Hilton hotel. The hotelroom was huge and the furnishings are exclusive and chic. We were never in the united emirates before, so we learned about their rules and tratidions first. But Abu Dhabi was different. The people were open minded and most of the time it was too hot for long clothes. But it was really okay to wear short stuff and I was still aware of not breaking rules like wearing shorts or short skirts in mosques.




After the first day which we used for discovering the city a little bit, we planned our first trip which took the whole day. The desert safari was a trip we had to do, so they pciked up early in the morning in a Lexus SUV. There were several more SUVs and it looks like a car caravan in the desert. I just can recommend this trip, because it felt like being in a rollercoaster as the car driving the dunes up and down.

After desert car trip they took us to a place where we could ride on camels, sandboarding and more. In the late evening there was a huge BBQ with all the participants of the desert safari. The food was better than I expected for the price and the late night show gave us the oriental feeling.




The next day we booked the trip to the famous two theme park on YAS island. There was several combi tickets and we decided to buy a premium combi ticket for both. We started in the Yas Waterworld and we never were in a water theme park before. It was strange first to ride the rollercoaster in bikinis. I felt a little bit naked, but it was totally fun and worth it.

In the late afternoon we changed the theme park. Next to the Yas waterworld there was the Ferrari World. If we had visited the Ferrari World one week later we could have catch up the Formula 1. But we still enjoyed the fastest rollercoaster in the world and the theme park itself. As a huge race and cars fan I loved it there and I had to get some souvenirs as well, even they were expensive as hell.



The rest of the week, we spent our time (and our money) in the great malls of Abu Dhabi. There are so many shops we don't have in Germany, so we had to exploit the opportunity. Unluckily, we were both girls with only 30 kg baggages. We rarely visited the beach, but it was okay for me. The beach was beautiful, but as we were in UAE, the beach were seperated in women and men and family. The women beach is nearly empty, but there was still a lifesaver and it was too awkward for my sister and me to be there.



As we were heading home, which was at 2AM, we were driving by some clubs. They looked so luxury and noble, but my sister was underaged so we had to pass the clubbing part. We will return for sure, but next time we have to take a trip to Dubai as well.

xo, RubyliXious

Dear readers,

I think it is important for me, even on this blog, to restore some of my posts mainly in the travel section. Since I getting started with college lately I can't travel. Busy with study and work, force me to put my travel destinations on the end of my bucket list right now. But as I said, I liked wallow in my travel memories. And I like to start with the first trip of Niclas and me.

He was in Australia for a couple of months which was really hard for us, so he promised me to travel with me right when he's coming back.



We booked our hotel in Turunc and I really have to commend this hotel and generally this place. The food was awesome, the people was friendly and there are a lot of activities you can do e.g. we did the boat trip where they take you to different bays and you could swim in the open sea.

The only thing that disappoints me was the shopping trip in the neighbor city Marmaris. I couldn't really enjoy going shopping, because most of the stuff are fake ones. I thought I would find a beautiful little boutique, but every boutique sells the same "typical turkey" stuff.
At least I bought souvenirs at the airport in duty-free shops and a souvenir-shop in turunc.



This vacation was restorative and its strengthen our relationship a lot. Our first trip together and we actually handle it perfectly. I can't wait for more trips with him. It would be awesome to see the world with him.