Amazing breakfast & discovering the area

DAY 2

The next day we visited my dads side of the family but that wasn't 'til the afternoon, so we had some time to walk around and see where we were staying.

The day started with us getting up with the roosters crowing next door. We had some time to get ready, and while the lovely hosts prepared mean breakfast, me and my sister snuck out and walked around for a bit. There is a really long path down into the next valley, with nothing but trees and fields surrounding it. Everything is really quiet and you can hear nothing but the wind, some birds and the noises the horses make whilst walking!!
I haven't felt this relaxed in a long time and you don't have to worry about if the wind destroys your hair or if you stand in a mud puddle with your left foot.

At 9 a.m. the host lead us into a lovely little room in the cottage. The breakfast was amazing and the jam was home made, the buns were fresh out the oven and the selection was huuge!

Area around the cottage!

It was quite warm especially for December! so the cold wind was welcome to contribute to the winter, even tho it was messing up our hair.

This was the amazing breakfast spread in a 1700 atmosphere!

Heading back to the cottage after visiting my grandma was quite an experience, because would you look at the beautiful sunset!

I hope you're exited for the last day tomorrow!

xxk80

Day 11

The day before Christmas

Now, I feel like the last weekend before Christmas eve is the most stressful. You gotta check that you really didn't forget to buy a present for your mother's sister's best friend, that you have enough wrapping paper, for everything you bought and that you don't run out of bows, ribbons, tape, stickers, fir branches.....
Today is December 23rd, and the countdown to 2016 starts, and all the stress slowly fades out, and you get really exited and start planning and thinking about your new years resolutions. Which might actually be more stressful than the week before Christmas!!
But now you just gotta chill and be exited for the best day of the year (?) 

Cookies in a jar I: Grab some yogurt glasses or any other (they just have to be big enough) decorate the glass, bake some cookies, put them in there, tie a bow around it! TADAA!

Cookies in a jar II: Buy a glass jar or just get a yogurt glass again. (They have to be closeable!) 

Layer:   100g flour
         1 tbs baking powder
         100g soft brown sugar
         30g cocoa powder
         50g dark chocolate chips
         50g white chocolate chips

Add:     1 egg
         80g butter

Bake:    at 170 C for 7-9 minutes

Cookies in a jar III: Special

xxk80

Day 10

Oh Christmas tree!

This weekend I went shopping for a Christmas tree!! Ever since we were younger me and my family would always meet up with friends of my parents and their daughter. I guess it became kind of a tradition, so we drove a little out of town until there were no houses near us. 
So on the last Advent Sunday we put on our big boots, and wrapped up in only one layer because it was pretty damn warm!!

They decorated a place in the woods where you could drink mulled wine next to a little fire and could chop down your tree. 
It was quite funny seeing all those people with their saws running around looking for the perfect Christmas tree.
If you have the time and know a place like that I would really really recommend you to go there because it's so much nicer and you'll definitely go home in a much more festive mood.
After we picked our tree we put it in our car, and because our dogs came with us, we went on a nice long walk through the woods.

xx k80

And tell me in the comments what kind of style and topics you'd like to see in 2016!!!