Past Adventures - Road trip to Bratislava

Hello Ghouls and Ghoulettes!

Yesterday I was browsing through some past pictures (believe me, there are many!) and I decided it would be fun to open a new theme in the blog. So from now on, I´ll be sharing some of my most interesting past adventures with you! I´m kind of a traveller, a citizen of the world, of sorts. I´ve lived in Wales, England, Portugal, Spain and Austria. Additionally, I've travelled to Germany (twice), France, Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic (twice), plus the Azores (beautiful portuguese islands in the Atlantic Ocean).  I even went to the african continent once, I travelled with my parents to Ceuta from Spain (you can get a boat there) and spent a day there, though I´m not sure if that counts as leaving Europe. I love, love, LOVE to travel! In the future, I really want to travel all over Europe (specially go to Ireland and Scotland), The USA, Mexico (dia de los muertos <3), Egypt and Japan. Anyway, on the the point. In this theme I´ll be sharing all kinds of adventures from the past, no matter how old. Travels, days out with friends, festival outings, everything! I´ll create a special tag for it, so if you're interested, always feel free to check the "Past Adventures" tag, and come share my frockings with me! I plan to post soon many of my trips within the UK, my trip to wave gotik treffen, my trip to Disneyland Paris, several trips from while I was in Austria... Stay tunned!

I´ll start with a roadtrip I made with some friends to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. Come and wander with me, after the cut!

Devin Castle, Bratislava.

A weekend by the sea, and a daily outfit with flowers

Hello my darling creatures,

Trying to get back to blogging, I decided to share with you all my very special day, the day me and my <3 had our one year anniversary. It seems like only yesterday that we have met, but alas, a year has gone by. And mind you, it wasn't easy. We spent 5 months apart from each other, me in Vienna (Austria) and him in Lisbon (Portugal, my home country). But true love never dies, as all of us good goths have learned in Bram Stocker's Dracula, hur hur hur. I knew after I spent my first week with him as boyfriend and girlfriend that he was the one, and so it has been. And let me tell you, it is wonderful to spend my life side by side with a man that showers me with love, friendship and understanding in a daily basis. So come and spend our special weekend with us!

Instead of splurging in a super fancy dinner, we were fortunate enough to be given two nights in a seaside hotel in Estoril, with an amazing view over the beach and the marginal. The night started with us swapping our xmas and 1 year anniversary gifts, as pictured above.

And in our opinion, a fancy dinner is NOTHING compared with HUUUGE amounts of pizza, and a good film, curling up in the hotel bed! In this occasion, because we were still super in tune with our xmas spirit, we decided to watch the Grinch!

Then it was time to celebrate, with cheap ass champagne and some time spent contemplating the view :)

And what an amazing view it was! I spent loads of time by the window, just taking it all in.

And this was the view from the other side, where we were fortunate enough to have one of the few balconies of the hotel!

After breakfast, we decided to go for a walk and spend the day in Cascais. We packed some sandwiches and leftover pizza, and headed down the "paredão".

My Titanic pose

And me, being silly with my super cute hello kitty coat. It makes me feel like a super badass 6 year old, I love it! Especially when I pair it with super alternative attire! ahah

At first it was quite a cold, cloudy day, but then the sun decided to come out and say hi!

The day ended with a romantic ride on the ferris wheel by the sea, or the cascais eye, as I named it.

This was my outfit for the day! One of of my favourite skirts, paired with two of my new favourites: A very 90s witchy bag I got from a trade, and a pair of chunky boots I got on my personal couture boutique (feira da ladra) for one euro!

Skirt - Zara
Skulls Jumper - Austria
Witchy Red Moon Bag - Trade
Hello Kitty Fluffly Coat - Primark
Chunky boats - Feira da ladra

I hope you enjoyed sharing my special day! See you soon, batty bats!

Deadly outfit - Showing the sights around Vienna

I had some friends visiting last week, and it was amazing, but equally tiring. Bela Lugosi's dead, and so am I (undeaddd undeeeeaad undeeeead), therefore I leave you with this small outfit post. Just to say that I´m... well, Undeeeeaaad!

Sunglasses - Thrifted at the Naschmarkt (2 euros)
Skully dress (actually a tshirt transformed into a dress) - Street Market in Thaliastrasse (2 euros)
Ripped Leggings - Bershka (About 10 euros, if I remember it correctly!)

And a bonus picture of me eating zanoni & zanoni ice cream (and sofia in the background). Just because it's tasty and fucking cheeeap!

Take care batsies, loads of love from Viennese lands!

The Bat Chronicles - Life in Vienna

Hey batties!

I was gonna post a tour of my room here in Vienna, and even maybe of my house... But when I finished tidying up it was already dark, and the pictures were ruined by the flash... I think i'll try to take better piccies one of these days. It's a strange feeling, but whenever i´m abroad I always feel like I have a thousand things to do at the same time, and like my mind and body are spread everywhere. I think I spoke about this before, and it makes it hard to concentrate and get stuff done. Anyways, Vienna is a lovely city, and it remains embodied on it's ancient magnificent glory. In every street corner you can find a surprise, a palace with astonishing architecture  statues, impressive houses and churches, quanty traditional coffee houses decorated in the jugenstill Viennese style, carriages pulled by elegant horses... I still don't know how living here feels. I think it is a beautiful city, but somehow, i cannot process this situation. It's like i´m not on vacation here, nor i am living here... Maybe I am lost in a dream? I´m happy though, I have made good friends, and I´m trying to enjoy the city to it's fullest, as I always do when living abroad.

Tomorrow I have a portuguese friend coming to visit and staying for about a week, so that should be exciting  Meanwhile, have a wander around this fairytale city with me, with some snaps that I have taken thus far. I think you too will want to visit pretty soon!

One of Vienna's typical markets, which are seasonal and happen often all around the city (This one is a easter market, as you can easily tell by the easter egg portrayed, lol)

Creepy stephandom, with zee moon

Snowy footsteps after a night out

A walk in the augarten and a look at the WWII air control towers, which are pretty much indestructible and remain standing in Vienna to this day as a memoir (There are 4 or 5 of them around the city)

The Theatre Museum

A walk to the Vienna museum with friends, and silly pics

Vienna's Zentralfriedhof, or the main cemetery which is purely idyllic and shall have it's own post soon

The parliament, which is one of the most beautiful buildings in Vienna (and trust me, there are plenty of them!) with an amazing amount of statues and beautiful architecture. I love that ducks live in that fountain!

The Central library, chilling out in the sun while reading the walking dead comic, Mozart and Goethe

Beautiful things in the center

More walking dead and a burger king meal, an extravaganza that I very rarely indulge in here in Vienna (Cause i´m really poor)

Opera in the street and some days later actual opera (Eugene Onegin in russian with english subtitles)

This is where I work (well, the garden of my workplace). Feel free to be very jealous :P 

Donausinsel, or the island of the Danube, where you can bathe in the river and go for endless walks (we sunbathed in our bikinis, but didn't dare to get into the water because it was freezing, but many Viennese were doing just so!)

A night out to a fail gothrock party at marea alta

Riding a segway and taking pictures along the danube channel

Stadepark

The Prater

A very cool building, near my house!

Zhat is all for today batties, this post is huge and was a lot of work! Hope you enjoy it and come to visit sometime <3 To all of my friends that read the blog, there's extra mattresses in the house, if you feel tempted to come!

See ya soooooooooooooooon!