Graffiti in the Old City
Ahoj! I’ve just got back from a rather random trip to the Slovakian capital of Bratislava, situated right in the left corner of the country, sitting cosy next to Austria and Hungary in Europe. I’ll be explaining the said ‘randomness’ of it very soon, but if you’re itching to hear what on Earth I got up to, my Instagram feed between April 18th and 21st will give you some tasty insta-bites!
The most important thing right now though is that it was hot. (well, hot compared to the fail of a climate in the UK at the time.) FINALLY some vitamin D for my body! It was such a treat to hop along the cobbled stepping stoned streets in just my comfy Lazy Oaf slob T-shirt and leggings ensemble and ASOS sunnies. Not wearing a jacket was a novelty I tell you! I was also delighted to sport my happy cartoon-stuff-with-faces look which looked right at home next to the highly artistic parrot and robot graffiti and brightly coloured walls!
‘Lazy’ slob T-shirt – (old) Lazy Oaf (similar here!)/ Stickers leggings – Lazy Oaf / Geometric necklace – (old) Lazy Oaf / Cactus sweatshirt – (old) Mens ASOS / Print and chain wedge trainers – Office Shoes / Purple sunglasses – ASOS (similar here!) / ?! earrings – Topshop present from Olivia!
More on the city including its amazing castle and a video to come!
///
![Remember, remember, the fifth of November. Bonfire, tractors and pork. (Well, that’s my version anyway). 🔥🧔🏻🧨🥁🍻🕯👩🏻🌾🚜🍂🌿🐖 Bonfire night is a big deal where I’m from, so each year I get on the train back to my village to join the villagers in their 160-year old celebrations. Here’s the deal:
1 - They prep months ahead. Doreen here goes around picking up everyone’s garden waste which the ‘bonfire boys’ then craft into the famous Christmas pudding-shaped heap. 🚜🍂🌿
2 - There’s the ‘guy’, a huge chicken wire and papier maché sculpture which gets paraded around the whole village flanked by a band and followed by hundreds of people carrying flaming torches. (See it in my story!) At the end he gets hoisted up to the top to see his fate and those who still have flames burning get to light the fire with their torches. 🔥🔥🧔🏻🔥🔥 3 - The fireworks are always fantastic and use the same technology as the London NYE ones.🧨
4 - My favourite new tradition is the hog roast. The village butchers spit roast a local pig all day then auction it off at night. It’s all about strategy and trying to get a cut for under £35. 🐖💪🏼 See it all in my story. Do you go to bonfire night? Do you have any crazy local traditions? [#bonfirenight#fireworksnight#fifthnovember#guyfalkes#weekendscollected]](http://scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com/vp/6be582cc4bf08e4b5dedc9f612a5ca76/5E66178B/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c0.180.1440.1440a/s640x640/73301845_523961781791234_3926435289017903775_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=102 "Remember, remember, the fifth of November. Bonfire, tractors and pork. (Well, that’s my version anyway). 🔥🧔🏻🧨🥁🍻🕯👩🏻🌾🚜🍂🌿🐖 Bonfire night is a big deal where I’m from, so each year I get on the train back to my village to join the villagers in their 160-year old celebrations. Here’s the deal:
1 - They prep months ahead. Doreen here goes around picking up everyone’s garden waste which the ‘bonfire boys’ then craft into the famous Christmas pudding-shaped heap. 🚜🍂🌿
2 - There’s the ‘guy’, a huge chicken wire and papier maché sculpture which gets paraded around the whole village flanked by a band and followed by hundreds of people carrying flaming torches. (See it in my story!) At the end he gets hoisted up to the top to see his fate and those who still have flames burning get to light the fire with their torches. 🔥🔥🧔🏻🔥🔥 3 - The fireworks are always fantastic and use the same technology as the London NYE ones.🧨
4 - My favourite new tradition is the hog roast. The village butchers spit roast a local pig all day then auction it off at night. It’s all about strategy and trying to get a cut for under £35. 🐖💪🏼 See it all in my story. Do you go to bonfire night? Do you have any crazy local traditions? [#bonfirenight#fireworksnight#fifthnovember#guyfalkes#weekendscollected]")
![In the same camp as going to the gym at 7am 🏋🏻♀️ and doing a 10-step skin care routine before breakfast, I am not a ‘pre-work’ person. 🙅🏻♀️ Never understood it. More energy? How about sleeping? 😴 I am the girl who does her make up on the tube and wakes up 15 mins before she leaves the house. 💁🏻♀️ It’s safe to say I have never shot an Instagram post before pulling out my Boden pass. But this morning, @sarahlouisebrand got me up, out, snapping and posing before my first cuppa. Somehow I’m still awake at 8pm and I do feel a sense of achievement 💪🏼. I might not be doing this every Wednesday (soz Sarah), but maybe I’ll set my alarm 15 mins early tomorrow... ⏰ [#Bodenbyme#stschecks#stsspots#powersuit#discoverunder20k#gramminginlondon#upandautumn#lifelivedbeautifully#currentlywearing#womenwithstyle]](http://scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com/vp/78cabc381a81d7638643451f3e419920/5E66978C/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c0.179.1440.1440a/s640x640/73201510_3035153126513928_7449786390245986761_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=100 "In the same camp as going to the gym at 7am 🏋🏻♀️ and doing a 10-step skin care routine before breakfast, I am not a ‘pre-work’ person. 🙅🏻♀️ Never understood it. More energy? How about sleeping? 😴 I am the girl who does her make up on the tube and wakes up 15 mins before she leaves the house. 💁🏻♀️ It’s safe to say I have never shot an Instagram post before pulling out my Boden pass. But this morning, @sarahlouisebrand got me up, out, snapping and posing before my first cuppa. Somehow I’m still awake at 8pm and I do feel a sense of achievement 💪🏼. I might not be doing this every Wednesday (soz Sarah), but maybe I’ll set my alarm 15 mins early tomorrow... ⏰ [#Bodenbyme#stschecks#stsspots#powersuit#discoverunder20k#gramminginlondon#upandautumn#lifelivedbeautifully#currentlywearing#womenwithstyle]")
![Up until this Sunday I was close to unfollowing anyone on my feed who pronounced that October was their favourite month or that they ‘couldn’t wait for this time of year’. 🤯🤬 Quite frankly, it was crap. When I took this photo, I was literally living in a cloud. ☁️☁️☁️ If I wasn’t in a colourful office all day I literally don’t think I’d be able to so much as make myself a cup of tea in this depressing climate. But then that crisp sunny Sunday came around and I thought that I might at least be able to tolerate it. 😒 If I make a special effort to keep the colourful styling up, I might just make it through! If you’re an Autumn lover, please can you help me enjoy this time of year? 🍂🍁 [Look shot for @britstitchuk but I liked it so I posted it 💁🏻♀️ #upandautumn#stscolourblocking#stsspots]](http://scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com/vp/0e17c81ca2c905ce4cb7fd04c5c0735b/5E8C9C15/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c0.179.1440.1440a/s640x640/71555196_176422713481079_5927395549415788229_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=111 "Up until this Sunday I was close to unfollowing anyone on my feed who pronounced that October was their favourite month or that they ‘couldn’t wait for this time of year’. 🤯🤬 Quite frankly, it was crap. When I took this photo, I was literally living in a cloud. ☁️☁️☁️ If I wasn’t in a colourful office all day I literally don’t think I’d be able to so much as make myself a cup of tea in this depressing climate. But then that crisp sunny Sunday came around and I thought that I might at least be able to tolerate it. 😒 If I make a special effort to keep the colourful styling up, I might just make it through! If you’re an Autumn lover, please can you help me enjoy this time of year? 🍂🍁 [Look shot for @britstitchuk but I liked it so I posted it 💁🏻♀️ #upandautumn#stscolourblocking#stsspots]")
![🎞 Shawn the sheep, here I come! 🐑 (it was blaaaaa-ddy brilliant FYI 🚀) Anyone else a massive sucker for ‘kids films’? Give me a Friday night in and I will classically answer my boyfriends question of what I want to watch with ‘an animated comedy?’ I.e something easy on my brain with bright colours... 😅 Next on my list? Frozen 2 and Onward🦄 OH, and I discovered last night that I’ve still never seen Milan 🤦🏻♀️ Any other recommendations for my simple mind? [#everyman#muswellhill#howihue#stsflorals#weekendscollected]](http://scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com/vp/0fec4f9a103db0b64c32dc44daea3d77/5E4C7ADA/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c0.179.1440.1440a/s640x640/75491393_162093114857122_3630823834362028649_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=110 "🎞 Shawn the sheep, here I come! 🐑 (it was blaaaaa-ddy brilliant FYI 🚀) Anyone else a massive sucker for ‘kids films’? Give me a Friday night in and I will classically answer my boyfriends question of what I want to watch with ‘an animated comedy?’ I.e something easy on my brain with bright colours... 😅 Next on my list? Frozen 2 and Onward🦄 OH, and I discovered last night that I’ve still never seen Milan 🤦🏻♀️ Any other recommendations for my simple mind? [#everyman#muswellhill#howihue#stsflorals#weekendscollected]")
![Yes, that’s an Yves Saint Laurent poster in my bag 😏 You can’t go to the museum without picking up one of Yves’ prints, it’s the rules. I remember going 6 years ago and fell completely in love with his colourful collages (which he made annually to wish his friends a happy New Year). I never managed to get my hands on my own one though. This time, 1984 is coming home with me! 🖼 [#visitmarrakech#colorlikecovey#marrakech#exploremore#stsbrights]](http://scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com/vp/2343eaff520a6bc404b66c30e0a86f5d/5E5A59BD/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c0.180.1440.1440a/s640x640/71530416_175099910336530_4704810264684763804_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=110 "Yes, that’s an Yves Saint Laurent poster in my bag 😏 You can’t go to the museum without picking up one of Yves’ prints, it’s the rules. I remember going 6 years ago and fell completely in love with his colourful collages (which he made annually to wish his friends a happy New Year). I never managed to get my hands on my own one though. This time, 1984 is coming home with me! 🖼 [#visitmarrakech#colorlikecovey#marrakech#exploremore#stsbrights]")
![[gifted items] I suck at holidays. 📒 I spent more time snapping content than reading the content in this damn book. I didn’t do too badly on this trip though. Miraculously I managed to spend a whole half day by the pool! 💦 (Granted there was some Pilates and a massage happened) but otherwise, nada! Anyone find it real tricky to actually do that relaxing thing? 🙅🏻♀️
In other news, this cossie is part of @boden_clothing (the brand I work for) new sustainable swimwear capsule. 👙 I’m really chuffed to see this range grow next year as their swimwear is really high quality and even better when made with recycled plastic. [#liveconsciously#sustainablefashion#consciousfashion#stscolourblocking]](http://scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com/vp/16b8df7370ce5324a3ec06202482e558/5E55E87F/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c0.180.1440.1440a/s640x640/73387355_404286310244100_3152829131669429200_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=100 "[gifted items] I suck at holidays. 📒 I spent more time snapping content than reading the content in this damn book. I didn’t do too badly on this trip though. Miraculously I managed to spend a whole half day by the pool! 💦 (Granted there was some Pilates and a massage happened) but otherwise, nada! Anyone find it real tricky to actually do that relaxing thing? 🙅🏻♀️
In other news, this cossie is part of @boden_clothing (the brand I work for) new sustainable swimwear capsule. 👙 I’m really chuffed to see this range grow next year as their swimwear is really high quality and even better when made with recycled plastic. [#liveconsciously#sustainablefashion#consciousfashion#stscolourblocking]")
Just discovered your blog today, love all the colour! Bratislava looks wonderful, a lot like Prague, itching for a holiday now. Happy travelling!
Bunny
Thanks very nice blog!
Ce look est juste super top ! J’aime vraiment beaucoup et les photos sont superbes !
Nat
Great photos! Love the colours! 🙂
Looks absolutely stunning (very much like Prague); trust you to find the most colour-loaded part of the city!
Ashma X
http://centralsweetfrolic.blogspot.co.uk/
Lucy, you are the best of the best, really *_* I love your colorful outfits and these photos are amazing, it seems like Bratislava is amazing place 🙂
http://coeursdefoxes.blogspot.com/
♥
I love your Lazy Oaf necklace and this awesomely bright and cheery outfit! I love the full shot of you against that turquoise wall. Super awesome.
Lovely shots and a great post!
http://somebodyfromsomewhere.blogspot.com/
When I visit your blog I always fall in love with your shoes! Seriously, you have the coolest shoe collection! 😀
Fashionably Sparkly
I love your sunglasses!
Katie xx
http://thegravityandshe.blogspot.co.uk
Bratislava looks likes such a beautiful city! Your pictures are gorgeous and the graffiti is such a contrast to the architecture around it.
Jodie xx
Future Freaks Me
I love all the bright colours it looks so summery! And Lazy Oaf clothing is always so crazy and creative aha, looks greatxx
The not wearing a jacket is a real novelty, isn’t it! I swear when I get back from LA I’m going to both freeze and be soaking wet all the time as I have become so used to not leaving the house with a jacket or an umbrella!
loving all the colours of the grafitti, you look amazing as always!
Have you seen wildfox couture? I think youd like their stuff.
Kisses xxx
http://honeypopkisses.blogspot.co.uk