Cruise Photo Diary + OOTD: Cadiz, Spain

Back in August I was on an amazing Royal Caribbean cruise around the Mediterranean, one of the last days was a stop at Cadiz, Spain. Before this holiday the only place in Spain I had been to was Barcelona which is a great city but Cadiz, in my opinion, is far more beautiful! The churches and squares are so beautiful. You can see the Independence of the Seas (the ship we were on) from the shore, it looks so big! We had a walking tour of Cadiz (4 miles) and we also went inside Cadiz Cathedral which was quite atmospheric, especially the underground tombs! Then shopping obviously!

The streets and buildings in Cadiz are so beautiful! We managed to go in quite a lot of shops, the shopping is fantastic in this city! We discovered a shop I hadn't heard of before called Oysho which can be found on Asos - they have the most adorable sleep and lounge wear, I want all of it! There will be an Oysho wish list coming up within the next couple of weeks. I would definitely love to go back to Cadiz soon as it was a lovely place to visit!

Here is my outfit of the day: my dress - Topshop, shoes - Debenhams and sunglasses - Marc By Marc Jacobs. I have included another little video of clips from my trip to Cadiz, Spain!

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Cruise Photo Diary, OOTD + Video: Rome, Italy

We arrived in Rome, Italy on the 16th August which was a very quiet day in Rome because of the religious day before and Italians are usually on holiday around this time of the year so there were only tourists and police walking around (there were a lot of police around!). We have been to Rome a couple of times before - the most recent was for my 18th birthday. We had already been to see the Trevi fountain, Spanish Steps, Colosseum and Vatican City but we went again. One place we hadn't been to before was the roman forum and ruins both of which are in my video. I am so glad that we had already been to Rome as now the queues were really long for everything and the Trevi fountain and Spanish Steps had lots of scaffolding on them as they are being cleaned.

After the walking tour we went with our tour for lunch (we picked the 'classical rome with lunch' excursion on the ship). I thought it would be a sandwich or cake and a drink but it turned out to be a three course lunch with wine! The penultimate stop was Saint Peters Basilica, Vatican City which we have been inside before but we went in again. The inside is incredibly beautiful! There is a signed sculpture by michelangelo, one of only a few. Even though the queue looked very long we were inside within about 30/40 minutes. The last stop on the tour was a leather shop on the outskirts of rome, we passed Gucci headquarters (or an important Gucci building on the way) and we drove near Roberto Cavalli's Tuscan home - it was over the hill from the Piero Tucci leather factory/shop. I LOVE Rome, it is amazing!

Here is my OOTD, my dress is from Newlook as are my black ankle length petite leggings. My shoes are from Newlook too and my sunglasses are the same Marc by Marc Jacobs. I wore leggings as we were going inside the Saint Peters Basilica and the dress code is no exposed shoulders or knees - however the staff at Saint Peters Basilica were letting people in with short shorts, tank tops and short dresses which I was really annoyed by! 

Here is another little video of some clips from Rome and Vatican City!

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