Miss CocoBlue: Diary

Friday, October 28, 2016

By the time I placed my suitcase back in its storage place from my trip to Brighton and London, it was already time to pack for my next holiday: Greece! Although I really like to discover new cities nothing beats sunshine and relaxing on the beach. I felt really lucky that I got to go to a sunny country twice this year and hopefully I can do this in 2017 as well.

My friend Michelle and I are very busy with our thesis at the moment so a holiday break was a big must for us. We decided to go to Rhodes, the biggest island of Greece. We went for a week which in the end wasn't long enough and the holiday blues immediately kicked in when our plane left Rhodes International Airport.

Besides relaxing, swimming and getting a tan -vampire girl is no more whoop whoop!- we also went to the city of Rhodes, visited the Greek island Symi and did a Rhodes Island tour. See those annoying groups of tourists who are following a red umbrella? Yup that was us. I honestly do think that's the best way to discover an island when you are there for a short period of time.

Besides resetting my iPhone and losing all my old photos -I had a black out and completely forgot my password- I had an amazing time there. I had only been to Kos for one day so it was nice to stay in Greece for a week. Santorini is definitely the island I want to visit next, because that place is such a beaut! Rhodes and Symi were also gorgeous and I think the photos kind of speak for themselves. Queue the soppy insta pics here!

Have you ever been to Greece? What is your favourite island?

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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Last week I had the time of my life whilst I was soaking up the sunshine in Turkey. I hadn't been on a proper summer holiday in forever so I was happy to finally relax, get a tan and not think about all the stuff that I needed to do back home.

I stayed in a resort in Bodrum with my friend Hester, she also has a blog (it is in Dutch though), and even though we don't know each other for that long, we really had a blast and made lots of great memories. In those nine days that we were there we stayed by the pool, went into Bodrum and shopped, visited the Greek island Kos -the 45 minute boat trip made us so sick and dizzy that the first thing we did was going to a Greek pharmacy to buy travel sickness pills haha-, had a lovely hamam treatment and made lots of Instagram pics along the way.

When we came back, the post-holiday blues were SO real. I have never missed something like that for such a long time and I can't wait to go back one day. I think for me it's just the fact that there is sunshine - the Dutch weather sucks- and that I could not really think about my uni to-do list. I probably need to plan a new trip soon -they say that helps- but for now let's look back on this amazing holiday!