Long Weekend Plans.

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The next few days are looking to be good ones.

Tomorrow, if I keep my fingers and toes crossed, I'll be heading to Secret Cinema's Back to the Future, 50's costume at the ready, and on Sunday, I'll be off for a mini-break to Bruges.

Since coming back from Portugal, I've realised I'd like to do a bit more of seeing the world and even though it's only Belgium and I'm also working at saving to buy a house, amongst other things, it's a small step towards that. Plus, going abroad twice in almost as many months is pretty lucky and I'm quite grateful.

I'm still hunting around for Bruges travel tips, but I've seen 'In Bruges' a couple of times so that's a pretty good start, right? Mainly I'm looking forward to taking photos of the architecture, spending some quality time with my Gran and sister and making use of some of the Dutch that's been floating around the office in the last couple of weeks.

Tot ziens ♥!

Brewer Street.

I almost can't quite believe that it's over a month since Moon and I were in Brighton for his birthday, it's April already, before you know it Christmas will be here again. I don't want to wish the year away but I can't wait for this weather to stop teasing us and just warm up already!

When figuring out things to do for Moon's birthday, I knew I wanted to do something nice, I also knew I didn't want it to be crazy pricey - even staying in a hotel in Brighton at that time of year, for anywhere decent, is upwards of £100 a night. Knowing that, because we're so far away from there now, a daytrip would be exhausting rather than fun, I knew it would be better to stay overnight. Having seen a few bloggers use Airbnb - a lot of Kris Atomic's blog is Airbnb heaven - and knowing some friends who have used it, I figured that I'd just have a little search, it couldn't do any harm.

For £59 (the price has since been lowered to just £49, including Airbnb fees), we found the wonderful 13 Brewer Street and I almost immediately put in a request.

Our host, Justine, was really friendly and attentive, she was willing to recommend places for us to eat and even told us to book our meal for Saturday night - advice we definitely should have headed in hindsight. Just a few minutes walk from town, the room was wicked and came complete with a sturdy mezzanine bed - something I've wanted to sleep in since seeing The Science of Sleep a few years ago and now I've actualised it, I'm really jonesing after one for when we move into our own (unrented) place. The bed was really comfortable and the room was so light and airy, and filled will all sorts of fun, weird books and art.