London Adventures | Day 2

Hi Everyone! Check out Part 2 of my trip to London!! Hope you like the video :) Sandra xx

London Adventures 2015

Earlier this year I went on a holiday to London, England for a few days... it was my first trip to London and I loved it!  I'm excited to share with all of you this video I put together of some of the places I visited during my first day in London.  Parts 2 & 3 of my London adventure will follow soon!

I'm also looking forward to creating a similar video of my trip to Prague, so stay tuned for that! :D

Hope you enjoy it!

A walk through Yorkville

A few weeks ago, the weather finally warmed up in Toronto, and the sun came out! So, we decided to go for a long walk through a really nice area of the city and the university campus too.... I love looking at the old buildings!  We also stopped at a little cafe/european grocery store for a coffee and snack :) 

The Best Greek Restaurant in Dubai....

... goes to Elia (in my opinion)!!  I had the best greek food here - everything was made fresh and you'll find traditional dishes as well as dishes that have been modernized.  While I was in Dubai, I visited the restaurant twice; the first time we ordered their dolmades (cabbage rolls), and a spinach salad for starters and for the main course I took the Leg of Lamb (Stifado style) with onions and grated potato.

Then for dessert we ordered their (HUGE) plate of Loukoumades (small doughnut-like balls covered in honey and walnuts) - this was amazing and my favourite part of the meal!  Unfortunately, I didn't take a photo myself because the loukoumades were attacked and disappeared very quickly :S  Here is a photo from the web (our portion was bigger than the one in the photo!):



This photo of Elia is courtesy of TripAdvisor

The second time, I ordered the same starters, a tomato salad for my main, and their chocolate fondant dessert... great quality food again!


This photo of Elia is courtesy of TripAdvisor

For more photos, check out this page (make sure to scroll through the photo gallery on the right):  http://dubaimajestic.com/dubai_press_EN/93/Elia%E2%80%99s_Greek_signature_dishes_impress_at_Taste_of_Dubai_2009..htm

You can find Elia Restaurant in the Majestic Hotel; they are only open for dinner.  You can find more information on their facebook page as well - https://www.facebook.com/EliaDubai?fref=ts

Scenes from around Dubai

I thought I would share a few pictures I have taken in Dubai... as you can see, the view changes drastically from one place to another!  In one picture you see the desert, then in another it looks like a futuristic city!  Hope you like them :) 

Pics of the Week

Practicing some old piano pieces!

Readings for my MRI course

I've been listening to this song on repeat this week!

Starting to cool down slowly

First time making a mixed berry & banana smoothie - yummy :)

Such a beautiful street to live on! 

Working on my 'Vision Board' :D

Pics of the week

Monday - Catching up on my reading

Tuesday - Love Jimmy Fallon!

Wednesday's Dinner - Shrimp, Corn and Tomato Salad

Thursday - Train ride home after work

Friday - Freshly cut watermelon :)

Saturday - Lazy day at home

Sunday - I have to do Zumba again!; haven't done it for a while :S

New format...Pic of the day!

Since I've been working a lot more recently, and don't have time to put up full posts,  I've decided to change the format of my blog for a while... At the end of the week, I  will start posting 7 pics from every day of that week of anything that happened during my day (e.g. what I ate, what I saw, what I did, etc.).  Whenever I get the chance, I will also put up full posts.

So since today is Saturday, to start with, here's my pic of the day - "getting some inspiration"!

New Artwork!

I've been trying to get back into art!  These are a couple of studies I've recently completed ( need to practice more!) Hope you like them :) 

Lone Tree  - Medium: Graphite Pencils on heavy-weight french paper (medium texture)

Phantom Mask - Medium: Graphite Pencil on heavy-weight french paper (medium texture)

Working on the next one...

 

Falconry Video!

My falconry video is finally finished!! It took a long time to edit it, but I finally uploaded it .... hope you like it! 

A Falconry Show at Bab Al Shams Hotel in Dubai :
(Links to the music videos in the description box on youtube)

Happy Easter!

I hope everyone had an enjoyable Easter, and you all had a good weekend!  We had a fun celebration at home; starting off with eggs for breakfast ...  :)

 

 

After breakfast we coloured some eggs and had an egg cracking competition!

Lunch was delicious!  Baked chicken with honey glazed carrots, rice and meat with pine nuts, and a spinach salad...

For dessert, I baked my mum's recipe for almond cake ... yummy!!

 And don't forget the Easter Chocolate!