Sometimes I just wanna look back on photos from holidays, so here’s some photos of skiing in Austria.
Author Archives: ellekirks
Pink skies over Cabarita Beach.
The East coast of Australia has some of the most beautiful sunsets. The sun sets behind you as you look out to sea, and as it does, the sky in front of you is lit up in bursts of pinks and oranges. I caught a few sunsets at Cabarita Beach in Northern New South Wales (with my little pup, Rosie the Rottweiler).
Summer 2018 in Berlin.
What’s summer like in Berlin? Well, there’s a lot of sunshine. A lot of afternoons spent spread out on picnic blankets, grazing on hummus and carrots and drinking beer. A lot of visits to the many lakes around the city, to escape the heat. A lot of cycling to meet friends, to watch sunsets from rooftops or by the canal. A lot of al fresco dining, and drinking. A lot of parties on boats and disco balls reflecting shards of sunlight across our faces. A lot of watching football on big screens in parks, and piling into local pubs afterwards for one more round. A lot of this.
Kala festival, Albania.
Never really considered Albania as a a travel destination until a boutique music festival opened up shop there. Albania’s not really a hot tourist destination, but it might just become one. Right next to Greece, it boasts the same beautiful waters and coastlines, but it’s way less popular. Also a lot trickier to get to.
Budapest
Hi, welcome to the world of lazy blogging where I can’t reaeaally be bothered to write anything about Budapest, but want you to know that I loved it and here are some snaps (mostly of me eating) to prove that I don’t just sit in my flat all day writing like the hermit that I am. Okay, enjoy.
To the lighthouse, Byron Bay.
The lighthouse at Byron Bay is an insanely popular tourist attraction. The best way to get up there is walking, although it’s quite a steep hill, especially in the Australian summer. We battled the heat to reach the top, along with about a million other spectators, here to witness the beauty of the northern New South Wales coastline.
Read my novels.
If you fancy taking a peek into a book of mine, you can check them out on Wattpad. It’s an online site and an app that I upload my books to, where you can read books for free. I have 3 completed novels, a novella, and I’m currently writing a new fantasy novel. Just visit my Wattpad profile to see all my stories, or you can read more about the stories below….
Brew Books
London. A café and bookstore, run by 7 young bibliophiles.
Until one disappears.
Newly single, dropped out of university, and brand new to London, Jane Thomas has no idea what she’s getting into when she accepts the job at Brew Books.
She’s instantly pulled into the world of her fellow baristas and bibliophiles, who each have secrets of their own. And she starts to fall for Harper, the bartender with the smile she can’t resist.
But who was Matt, who once lived in the room that Jane moves into? Why did he leave? And when will he be back?
The princess of the Fire Lands is sold into marriage to a foreign prince. While trying to adapt to the new kingdom, she discovers a plot to reignite the Fire Wars. Many want her dead, but she must join forces with her sworn enemy to stop the world descending into war again. ✩✩✩
Reprise
Emily and Lucas grew up together. They were the closest friends you could imagine. Until Lucas did something that Emily could not forgive him for.
But now, Lucas is trying to push his way back into her life. And he knows something about their past – and their parent’s past – that Emily doesn’t know.
Riptide
When you’re surfing big waves, you’re going to get dumped.
18-year-old Indy has finally returned to her mother’s pretty little beachfront cottage. This is going to be the summer she finally confesses her love to Ryan, the boy next door. But this year, Ryan has brought along a girlfriend. Indy is determined not to let heartbreak drown her, because when you get wiped out, you’ve just got to get back on the board.
I hope you read them!
A few snaps from Scotland.
Just some snaps from Scotland, featuring hairy coos, a lot of rain, the Loch Ness, Edinburgh, Arthur’s seat and a cat! This was a while ago, when I still had gross orange hair halfway through dying it blonde.
The Farm, Byron Bay.
Just outside of Byron Bay in New South Wales is The Farm. It’s a working farm which the public is free to stroll around in, home to cows, pigs, sheep and vegetables, as well as a macadamia orchard where you can crack and eat macadamias fresh from the trees.
There’s also a restaurant, a café, and a shop selling fresh produce, as well as lots of educational programs for children to learn about farming. Basically, it’s a pretty sweet place to check out.
How to celebrate International Women’s Day in Berlin.
Update: read the 2019 version of this post.
March 8 is International Women’s Day, or Frauen*kampftag in Germany, which, for the unacquainted (welcome out from under your rock), is a day to commemorate the fight for women’s rights, and to celebrate how far we’ve come. This year’s theme is #PressforProgress, in response to recent movements in journalism to fight for equality, like the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements.
Continue reading “How to celebrate International Women’s Day in Berlin.”Celebrating No Filter Zine’s first birthday.
On Thursday night at Das Gift in Neukölln, Berlin, a bunch of creatives came together to celebrate the first birthday of No Filter Zine, an indie creative nonfiction zine launched in Berlin by Alice Austin. To mark the anniversary of the launch, four writers read not-yet-published pieces, in keeping with the No Filter theme of brutally true stories.
Continue reading “Celebrating No Filter Zine’s first birthday.”
Making friends in a new city.
Real talk. This post was borne kinda desperately out of my recent break up and the realisation that I don’t actually have that many friends that aren’t also directly linked to my ex-boyfriend. Yeah, lame. Even though I moved to Berlin 10 months ago, I was in a relationship and spent a lot of that time with my boyfriend, when I could have been making friends with other amazing girls in this city (because boys suck obviously).
ellekirks 