Family

When it comes to the festive season we all believe that ideally we should celebrated it with our families. I believe family is not only the little sister you are so protective over, nor the older brother who drives you mad, it is those who surround you. Whether it be geographically or cognitively. Moral support and presence is what brings that happy smile. They are the people who love the real you!

I miss those who are my family in Hossegor and I am grateful to have come home to the loving community in which I grew up in.

To see the smile on my grandmother's face when I first arrived home was indescribable. The first embrace accompanied by tears with my mum at the airport and the dorky hello, big hug and being lifted by my 'not so little' brother made me realise this was no longer a skype date relationship. I was home and summer number 5 was about to begin. One of the best things about travelling is coming home to such a spectacular part of the world. Who would think that I'd ever want to leave. Coming home makes you appreciate where we live, the beauty of the land meeting the sea, the loving neighbourhood and its everlasting joyful spirit that fills the salty breeze.

Happy to be home :)

Harris, Mumma, Nanny & I

Charlie, Bex, Sophie & I

Pumps, Charlie, Brendos, Bex & MC

Myri, Bex, Charlie & I

Amelie

Annabelle!

Crille! 

Fragments Of The Mind

Modernise, globalise, adopt, hinder, multiculturalise, resist change! Diminish individuality, promote conformity, international relations, combine classes, seperate the rich from the poor, liberate the nation, equality between races, loose the spice each country is proud to produce.

Is the idea of globalisation diminishing individual cultures? What are the effects of technological growth on the differences, relationships and cultural beliefs of each country? Is finding yourself on a map a way of becoming lost in the number of masses?

Why do we need to conform to the idea of ensuring our individuality? If God is the ultimate leader and we are taught not to follow, is life as hypercritical as it exposes to be?

Scattered All Over Me!

Amsterdam - What You See

• Speedy bikers, slow bikers, fashionable - wearing heels bikers, old bikers, texting bikers, smoking bikers. Everyone rides a bike! Everyone! Tourists on bikes (danger!)
• Coffee shops - that stink!
• Marijuana seed shops, mushroom shops, sex shops, vintage shops, hat shops and your usual high street shops.
• A variety of people (that's obviously normal in a city - but seriously this place beholds the young, the old, the strange and the adventurous)
• Tourists getting run over by bikers
• Canals and house boats
• Unfortunate girls posing in windows awaiting a horny, big spender
• Fashionable people and not so fashionable people - people who put no matter what on, concentrating on keeping warm
• Stylish bikes and practical bikes
• Small, box-like stores selling herring - a Dutch delicacy 
• A 'Coffee Company' café every 200 metres  

Words of Sweden by Nicholas Pumphrey & Sam Page

Hot chicks. Supermodels. Blonde. Tall. ABBA. Swedish meatballs. Singing. Slick hair dos. Expensive booze. Buttoned up suits. Coffee shops. Prolonged café visits. People watching.

Sum Payji

Thompa & Pumps