Travelling!

The sun is shinning brightly and the sky is bluer than a light blue Crayola colouring pencil and I am BURNT :D. Ok, so it was a bit painful the couple of days after my sun deck tanning session but now I have a tan and it's totally worth it :).   And I don't even have a bad hijabi tan line (you know, the line that traces the outter part of your hijab when youre out in the sun and only realise how hideous it looks once you take your headscarf off and compare the differences in skin colour) So it is safe to say I am feeling very summery.

Just came back from Aswan and Luxor ins Egypt and it was awesome!  All, if not most of the temples and tombs of ancient Egypt lie here so it was amazing to come up close with it.  The weather was deliciously hot and for the first time in a while I was wearing my light shirts and skirts.  Now I have returned home, I'm still on a travelling high and want to pack my suitcase again and get travelling-this time will be sensible with the sun block lotion, I swear!  I was looking for potential places to go and I think I would really like to go to a resort in Turkey soon.  I hear they have a lot of 'halal' resorts where a Muslim woman can enjoy the sun and beach without having to be dressed in her Islamic attire and that for me means more body tanning opportunities hehe!

As for Europe there is no doubting that I have to go back to Spain.  I'm just totally in love with it and have been twice before (Madrid and Granada). Next stop Barcelona or Seville me thinks...

Anyone there....?

Hello! Ok I'll just get straight into it-  I'm a new blogger and this is all very new to me.  However, slowly but surely it's all coming to me and I'm actually enjoying this whole blogging malarkey lol!  That being said I'm not really sure which audiences are reading my blog, so what I would like to request kindly from you is that if you've visited the blog and haven't melted from boredom and liked what you've read or just have an opinion, then why not just comment! Would really appreciate the feedback and would be nice to know that somewhere out there in the big, wide world is an individual reading my randomness :D.   Ok I think I'm done here :) Peace out! x 

One whole year- one whole year since the uprising began in Syria.  It's quite scary how time has flown; it only feels like yesterday when I heard the news that protests had started in the suburbs of Damascus with a quick dismissal that it wouldn't last long since Assad is a young Arab leader, stern with Israel (pfft really!?) and popular amongst young Syrians.  I remember quite clearly reading an article where all the above were mentioned and thinking to myself that it would be over as soon as it had begun: how wrong was I sadly.  The state of events that have happened over the course of the year have shocked us all to the core; who knew the regime was capable to this degree of the types of tools used to quash the opposition.  From as low as rapping women and girls, to killing children ('cause they pose a major threat, right?) to torturing and humiliating Syria's brave men, this regime has no bounds whatsoever and this makes them chilling yet.  Over 10 000 killed and hundreds and thousands fleeing the country, I can only pray that the day that Bashar Al Oppressor is removed from power and his entire government with him, will come very soon and that the Syrian people will taste the freedom they have so tirelessly and courageously fought for.  Free Syria!

Fooooood

Was looking at photos from a trip I went on last month and was NOT happy when I realised that I looked a bit chubby round the face :( it was, to say the least, really really bad, especially since I had spent the whole of December going to the gym and  controlling my intake of food!  I'm not fat at all but I think being around someone who is on a strict diet has made me more paranoid about my body.  I want to go back to how I was before (whatever that was) erm maybe I just want my face to go back to how it was lol.   So yes I have the intention of doing some cardio workouts to 'tone' myself up but the motivation is difficult since my gym membership has expired.  But never fear....YouTube is here! So the plan is to load some cardio workout videos to em a few times a week and try to control the 'fatty' foods that enter my stomach.  Shouldn't be that hard......should it? *she says hesitatingly*......

My first post!

Hello everyone and if you've just randomly clicked on this blog then welcome!! This is all new to me but I thought it was high time I get myself a blog as a means of communicating with the outside world my spontaneous ideas, opinions and daily going ons!  Hope you enjoy a quick read here and there and if you've got any suggestions just holla!! :D peace out