Well, January was a fun month! A fun but extremely busy month. A new term at university has started and I have more contact hours and more work (yay!). But I have also had some fun travelling - Dublin and Oslo to be exact.

Dublin

Oslo

Sweet Treats

Youtube Videos 

I LOVE doing photo diaries, it's such a lovely way to look back on the trip and hopefully inspire you to visit too. My boyfriend and I visited Dublin from the 2nd - 5th January. What a perfect start to the year it was. I love visiting places in the new year, it just seems like you miss out all the hustle and bustle but the festivities are still there. Everyone is in a good mood and of course.. ready to party. We absolutely loved the atmosphere in Dublin, especially at the nights. The pub atmosphere is where it's at. Live music, a bit glass of (expensive) wine and you have yourself a wonderful evening. Fill the days with lots of great, affordable food and coffee and it is the perfect weekend getaway. I would recommended it for all you couples looking for a quick weekend trip.
I thought i'd share some of my favourite photo's with you. It's always nice to see somebody else's pictures - in my opinion. I just wish the sun would have made an appearance to make my photo's that much nicer...

Pubs

The Medieval Area

Street Art

Parks

I really enjoyed writing my November in photo's post. It's always lovely to look back on wonderful memories with your love ones and see just what a great life you actually have. In our day-to-day lives, we so often focus on the small, negative things that happen like.. that stressful deadline at work or uni or that one comment a friend made. Looking back at your month as a whole helps you to see the bigger picture - all the good moments, the happiness shared and the memories that will last. So just remember when you're having a bad day or two - you're having a bloody good month!

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you're all having a wonderful time! xox

Putting up the Christmas tree with Momma

Lancaster University Campus Christmas Markets 

Flat Christmas Meal

Date Night with Bae

Manchester Christmas Markets 

I took a trip to the Markets with my flatmates. It was so much fun going with new friends who had never been before (cuz it's ma hometown yanno). We spent the day shopping, sipping Starbuck's coffees and just generally having a wander round. We even took home the Manchester markets Christmas mug - cute!

Weekend with BAE. 

I've really been enjoying spending weekends with my boyfriend, especially now we don't live together, it means the time we do get together is more special and worthwhile (I hate how soppy that sounds). This particular weekend we spent have a 'nature day'. We took a short drive to Halton for a little wander down the river, it's a tiny village with not much there, but it was really nice anyway. We completed a lovely day with another walk down the woodland trail back at university. Also, can we give him credits for his photography?

Shopping dates with Mum.

 This was actually Black Friday weekend - it consisted of a lot of food! First, we went for lunch and hot chocolate in the local Vegetarian/Vegan cafè (so good btw!) and did quite a bit of Christmas shopping. Then, on black Friday we went to The Trafford Centre, it wasn't as busy as you would think! We took advantage of the sales, did some more Christmas shopping and grabbed some lunch in Caffè Nero. Kudos to Caffè Nero for vegan mince pies btw. Delicious!

Engagement party!

Eek, this was a bit of a (scary) grownup thing for me. But, I am really happy for the wonderful couple. It was such a lovely party (house decor goals for sure) and there was lots of prosecco flowing. I enjoyed some yummy vegan food and actually had the chance to dressed up and look nice for once. It was really nice to wear this playsuit that had been sitting up in my wardrobe for months.

More weekends with bae.

After the engagement party with bae, bae and I spent the weekend doing some shopping. Have you noticed a common theme in my month? Shopping and bae. We shopped a little, ate a lot, including a Caffè Nero number 2. I've been making my way through ALL the Christmas coffees. I also wore this ridiculous headband I found in Primark's children's section - it's sooooo cute though.

So if you don't know i ended up on a rather impromptu trip to Paphos, Cyprus (not complaining btw). It was rather rushed, i came home from working at university for 3 weeks and left for Cyprus the very next day. Luckily i could just switch my makeup from one suitcase to the other, pack a few bikinis and some suncream, wash a few nickers and i was ready to go. The joys of a beach holiday right.