So I got back from Turkey at 2am on Tuesday, and then set off again on the plane to Mallorca at 3pm!!! Ha I did 3 countries and time zones in one day! I felt like a right jet setter! And can I tell you something! Jet setting isn't as fun as it might seem!!! I was so darn sleepy!!! Well here's my travel outfit! Just a casual Hello Kitty top with jeans!!!!
So me and mum were staying at a hotel called Valparaiso Palace!!! Now unlike when I go on holiday with dad, mum can't stand slumming it! So the hotel we went to was proper posh!!! I mean!!! Look how gorgeously lush that chandelier is!!! All like shiny marble floors and all the service people were in smart little red blazers!!! I felt so wonderfully spoilt!!!
So in this post there are a fair few photos of architecture or pretty stuff I saw that caught my eye and will inspire me for when I have my own house!!! And this was one of them!!! This panelling was the backing of the reception desk and the intricate gold pannel is just gorgeous! I'm thinking I would like a screen similar to this in my bedroom in a red instead of a green in my bedroom when I'm older!!!!
So this was our room, very nice, very plush carpet, ermmmm yes not much to say ha!!! You can just see mother's elbow in the corner of the screen, I'm really sad cause I didn't get any pics with mum on my camera although she has some on her phone! I'm so forgetful sometimes!!!!
And here's the gorgeous bathroom!!! I loved this bathroom!!! the mirrors made it feel so spacious and it all just looks so shiny and modern and opulent!!! Love love love!!!!!!!
So here's a pic I found on the internet of part of one of the swimming pools!!!! I mean!!! Look how big it is!!!! It was absolutely massive! This first swimming pool had another island as well as the one you can see in the photo! It was mega fun for swimming!!! I put this here cause Wednesday we just had a pool day, so I thought this was the appropriate moment!!!
Then on the Thursday we went to go visit mum's friends, who were staying in a village in the North West of Mallorca called Soller, so we went on this cool little vintage train!!!! And here it is!!!
And me boarding said vintage train hee hee!!!
I love the inside of this train!!! It's so quaint!!!! It's like the Mallorcan version of santa express steam train I feel!!!! So as I said we spent all Thursday in Soller, I found it a fairly boring day cause obviosly it was mum's friends so I don't have any more pics for Thursday and then Friday we had another pool day!!! So onwards to Saturday!!!!
So on to Saturday and me and mum spent the day in the city of Palma the capital of Mallorca!!!! We spent the day shopping and touristy sight seeing!!! Now below there are loads of pictures of different bits of architecture etc that I love because there was so much!!! I have so much more in my computer album, but I've picked some of the ones I liked the most to put on my blog!!! So here's a door way arch!!!! I saw so much beautiful stone masonry whilst I was there!!!!
And here's the feature I love the most of all my inspiration pics!!!! When I am older I MUST have a door knocker like this!!! I just love how it's a hand clutching an apple!!! I think it's so amazing! And the hand is so detailed and it's a pretty unique and special door knocker!!! Want want want!!!!
More beautiful stone masonry with some lovely little balconettes and windows, if I ever ended up with anything like this I would feel like the luckiest girl ever!!!!!
Eeeek and look!!! There's a sphinx in the middle of Palma!!! Pretty darn cool eh!!!!
A set of wooden doors I liked! Ha sorry my words for these bits are short!!! I don't know what to say other than that I love them and I want them hee hee!!!!
So after wandering the streets for a while me and mum headed over to the cathedral and outside the cathedral there was a guy making name drawing for only 3 euros!!!! I've always wanted one of these so this year I decided I'd get one!!! So here's the process of him writing my name!!! I think this is so gorgeous!!!!
As we got closer to the cathedral we came upon this water feature!!! I became so tempted to run through the middle of it!!!! But I knew I couldn't!!! It would have made for an awesome picture! Although it's still pretty darn awesome just as it is!!!!
And here from in front of the cathedral we can look out onto a man made reservoir that drains off the extra sea water!!!! It's so big!!!!
One of the doors to the cathedral!!! Have you seen how intricate it is!!! Such detailed work!!!!
And here's the rose window above the door!!! From the inside the stained glass looked so pretty but my camera had run out by that point!!! I'm so sorry or I would have definitely got a piture for you everyone!!!!
And here's an outdoor mosaic that reminded me of something Roman almost with the pair of stag that look like they're about to fight!!!!!
More intricate stone masonry!!! This time up close!!! I must have something like this in the garden of my home!!!! I want a portico with columns like a roman house in my back garden and this would fit so so super perfectly!!!!!
And here's a pic I got inside the cathedral before my camera died!!! Look how bling the whole thing is!!! So much beautiful stained glass!!!!!!
So I bought some post cards at the cathedral, and I would have put them in my purchased section right at the end! BUT because my camera diesd, I thought if I put them here, then I could use them all to show you what the cathedral looked like!! It's impressive ne?????
So Sunday we'd organised as a hotel day, obviously Spain and Mallorca are Catholic countries and so like EVERYTHING is shut on a Sunday so we had to have a hotel day! We had planned to sit outside in the sun and do a bit of reading and such but the weather actually had the temerity to ... RAIN!!! I know!!! Not amusing!!! So me and mother chose to use the day to explore the hotel's spa facilities!!! Now to use the spa you hae to use the robes provided, however, I think they made a bit of an oversight on the size of some of their clientele!!! Ha this robe and slippers just absolutely swamps me!!!!!
So the spa had 4 hot rooms, a salt room, a sauna, a herbal room and a steam room!!! This picture is taken in the herbal room!!! I couldn't get pics in the salt room and steam room cause they just came up as pure steam, and then I didn't get one in the sauna because I don't like saunas! My favourite hot room was definitely the salt room cause in there I can actually breathe through my nose and it helps my asthma and such! As well as being totally therapeutic!!!!!
Now after the heat stage you have to use then go through the cooling stage!!! D'you know what one of these cooling stages was? Ice!!!! Yes you read correctly!!! Ice!!!! You see that well I'm reaching into??? That big pile of white stuf is ice and d'you know what the instructions are to do with it..?
You have to rub it all over your body!!! It's so freakin cold!!! Totally brrrrr-inducing!!!!! It's supposed to increase body circulation and that means that like it prevents or helps to get rid of cellulite!!! I'm keen to never get cellulite!!! So I was like "Isabel deal with the darn cold and get this rubbed all over!!!" I had a total attack on my thighs, upper arms, and tummy! Hopefully it will have payed off!!!!
Another part of the cooling stage was this like water walk way thing! It did have a proper name but I've forgotten what that was sorry!!! I should have written it down *hangs head in shame*!!! But yeah you can see this is like a swimming pool walk way divided up into sections, each section alternates between hot and cold water!!! This then increases circulation in the feet which is good for all over circulation and also for getting rid of foot pain and preventing things like artheritis (not sure if I spelt that right???) But I think I could do with something like this for after a night out or a ballet session!!!!
So next are some of me just being all posing whilst I was down at the swimming pool!!! I won't bother to comment on them as it's just me being posey!!! I did have mega good fun thoguh and I've always wanted to do the second one down although I wish I'd have had a blue swimming costume and make up on cause I want to do an Ondine/Undine themed photo shoot one day!!! But yeah! I had fun!!!!!
And here I'd just got out of the swimming pool and thought this was a nice pic! So here it is!!!
Tuesday day we spent back out again, and then on that night we went for a meal in the uber posh bit of the restaurant!!!!
So I wore my new dress from Desigual because it's very unique but I feel it's quite a classy dress as well! And I love the brown colour and the lace pattern on it!!!!!
And another one of me cam whoring!!! Hopefully you don't all mind so many cam whorey shots!!!! I hope not! If you do mega apologies oh well you can just scroll down anyway!!!!!
We then went home the next day hee hee so here are the purchases I made whilst in spell!!! I bought this little name card cause people always ask how to spell my version of Isabel and I always tell them it's the Spanish way, and so when I went to Spain, they had my name spelt the correct way!!! I'll have a go at translating the card
"Isabel
Derived from 'Elizabeth' from the Hebrew family house of 'El-Yabeth'.
Isabel symbolises the nobility...
It's a name given to many queens, princesses and artists and expresses great carisma"
This is the completed name plate as well I already showed it before so I shan't dwell upon it now!!!!!
So we went into an underwear shop called Etam and I saw these super cute little pink leopard print shorts!!! They're so me I just knew I needed to have them!!!!!
Now here are the 3 dresses I bought from Desigual!!!! Desigual is a new Spanish shop I have just discovered they also have shops in capital cities across the worlds and they do some lovely unique dresses!!! The only problem is they are rather expensive but they are just so worth it!!! So here's a nice summery dress!!!
And here's more of an Autumn/Winter one because of the colour and the sleeves!!!!
And this one can't quite make up it's mind it's all inbetween and I just love this one the moost I think!!! It's so unique!!! Like nothing I've ever owned before!!!!!
So wow! I've been writing this whilst the Olympic ceremony's been going and it feels like I've had a marathon writing session going on!!! I'm so glad have done this holiday post!!! I feel the pressure off for a bit now so I just want to take this oppertunity to say
GO TEAM GB
RULE BRITTANIA
All I can say is I'm so proud to be British right now!!!! Woooo I hope everyone enjoys the Olympics!!! The opening ceremony did us proud!!! Eveyrone was so worried about "oh we can't beat China" We don't need to beat China, we don't just chuck Communist might at things!!! We do things in a truly British manner! I love it! What an amazing opening ceremony!!!
Anyway! Much Love!!! Thanks For Reading!!!
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