Tay sisters on vacation

Found these funny photos from my sister's visit to Mallorca (her and her boyfriend took a very welcome, three-week sojourn to Europe in the middle of their year-long tour of Africa).

Typical Tay sisters on vacation. :)

Mallorca, Trip 47: Es Trenc

After over two years of being in a long distance relationship between Europe and Canada, I moved to London... and Elliot and I are still doing the long distance thing. But hey, London is a hell of a lot closer to Ibiza/Mallorca (what's two hours compared to 11?), and really, there are worse places he could be based for me to visit. Many, many worse places.

Anyway, I have just one last visit planned for the end of September, so I thought I'd share some Instagrams of my last two summer 2012 trips to the sunny isles:

A weekend destination: Es Trenc, Mallorca

The walk from the parking lot at Es Trenc to the beach itself involves passing by several decrepit houses that were nearly finished before construction was halted: apparently, you can't build houses on the beach. Not sure what the whole story is here—you'd think the developers would have gotten the permits first, but then again, it IS Spain—but here's the result. 

Something about the fact that thousands of people pass the development each summer somehow makes it less depressing and ugly.

But why not?

Our beach umbrella. We have gotten a LOT of use out of this little number.

More graffiti on the beach. Great colours and cheeky kids!

Taking photos in front of the graffiti wall.

Elliot lifted himself up to look inside...

And I got a leg up. 

(My butt looks quite large in this photo.)

My favourite beach snack. 

You just can't resist buying one while saying "Magnum G-O-L-D???!!!!!"

Another weekend destination: the city beach in Palma. 

Testing out my new Tucker NYC jumpsuit on the beach. I had the opportunity to meet the designer, Gaby Basora, during a trip to London in the summer, and it was a true privilege. She designs all of her own prints and is SUCH a lively, gregarious person—a true pleasure to be around.

My teeny weeny leopard print D&G bikini. This got quite a bit of wear this summer.

That day, at city beach, we also saw a set of butt implants. Very bizarre.

Anyway.

One of our favourite little restaurants in Camp de Mar, which does a good paella.

Spanish olives are the BEST.

  

A 5-second August recap

A quick recap of the last, er, MONTH!

First there was the Olympics...

I saw Quebec's Alexandre Despatie dive at the Aquatic Centre...

These were Despatie's second Games and he didn't do very well - but the guy cracked his head on the board and had to get 20+ stitches not 6 months before the Olympics, so let's give him a break, shall we?

I also walked around the Olympic Park again...

I even got chicken mcnuggets at the world's largest McDonald's (which isn't actually this one, but the OTHER one at Olympic Park - see second picture below)...

I wandered the London 2012 Megastore (but didn't buy anything)...

And then I went back to Vancouver for the amazing, super gorgeous #AdrianxMalania wedding, which took place in the massive forest-backyard of one of Adrian's best friends, Tim.

Here's my friend Paul looking quite dapper, taking it all in:

 

And then I came back to London and started a new job! 

How's that for a super-quick update?