Germany 2015 Vlog: Part 2

Hello! Since I'm uploading my Germany vlogs every two days its time for the second edition. So without further ado, here's the video:

I hope you enjoy 

Let's talk through the video

As you can probably tell, the vlog starts of with us sitting in a restaurant about to order food. I couldn't choose between two meals at the restaurant (both sounded delicious) so I asked my mum if she would order one of them "for the table", meaning for me of course. I thought I was getting away with being greedy until my mum ordered the meal and stated very loudly "AND CAN I ORDER A SECOND MEAL FOR MY DAUGHTER OVER THERE WHO IS TOO EMBARRASSED TO ASK FOR TWO MEALS". It was obviously very embarrassing but I guess its karma for being greedy.

We spent the next few days walking around very old, but very beautiful towns. We stood by an old church, which towered over the town. Amazingly, there is a stage set up on the stairs outside of it where concerts are performed. Move over Madison Square Garden, it looks like this is the coolest venue for a concert ever!

From the church you could see a massive roof which is where an important building was (to this day I still have no idea what the building was though. I'm rubbish at paying attention when people explain things to me). Me and my mum decided to go looking for this building, and it turns out that it was a lot further away than we thought. And when we finally got to the building and vlogged it..... it turned out to be the wrong building all along. #awkward

The next 3 days we visited Munich and stopped their with my Uncle. Munich is a lovely place, full of excitement and of course full of expensive shops. Very expensive shops. Everywhere I looked I saw brands like Gucci, Prada and Chanel. 

Whilst we were there there we walked past a church which had figures that come out and dance and play music. For some reason, my family thought the figures came out at 4 O'clock so we waited until then aaaaaannnd nothing happened. We clearly got the wrong time but I still managed to get some wonderful footage of absolutely nothing!

The figures that did nothing whilst we were there

I should mention that througout this vlog, Germany seemed to be experiencing some rather windy weather. Don't get me wrong, it was still tremendously hot, it just meant my hair was flying all over the place and it made a weird noise in my camera. 

The storm we were experiencing one evening

One day we decided to visit the Zugspitze, the highest point in Germany. We chose the perfect day as the weather was lovely and there were not many clouds to cover the view. Since it's so high up, we also got to see some snow. My favourite! There was lots to do up there including sledging. As you can tell by the video, I'm rubbish at steering. How does steering even work? My mum also attempted to climb to the highest point, but was advised not to go further because she's not an experienced hiker. 

The hill we had to pull the sledges up afterwards

My mum completely pretending to go sledging for the picture so that 

she wouldn't have to pull the sledge up afterwards. What a poser!

The highest point in Germany

To finish off our time in Munich we went to the English Gardens. Essentially, this is a giant park where you can take beautiful walks. There was a tall Chinese tower which we ate lunch by. As I said in the vlog, the tower looked different to how I imagined it. I don't know why, but I was expecting it to look like a pillar instead of a tower for some reason. 

The Chinese tower... not pillar 

I hope you've been enjoying my vlogs so far. The song of the day is Drag Me Down by One Direction because it came out while I was on holiday. They released it with out warning which was very rude. How can they make me get that excited without any warning! Thanks for reading/ watching this post xxx

Germany 2015 Vlog: Part 1

As you guys probably know by now, this Summer holiday I went to Germany. I go every year to visit family and I continue to love it each time.

But this year was different; I actually vlogged. Yes that's right, someone as awkward as myself stood in public, holding a camera, talking to herself, without worring what others were thinking. It was so much fun and I captured quite a lot of footage so here is the video:

I hope you enjoy watching!

Let's talk through the video

As you can tell, at the start I was pretty nervous about vlogging because I had no idea how to do it, I thought I would look silly doing it, and thought that the footage I would get would look terrible. However, it actually turned out alright in the end :)

The next clip is from when we arrived at my Granddad's (Opa) house in Germany. One of his hobbies is art and painting. For as long as I can remember, every year that we arrived he would always have a few new paintings hanging in his living room. He is developing a new style at the moment and I always love seeing his new paintings.

Then, we headed off the the open air swimming pool, which we love, to cool down as the temperature was in the mid 30s. We had a bit of a debate in the car about whether the slide is yellow (which is what I said) or orange. Then when we got to the pool my family realised what colour it really was (spoiler alert: it was yellow).

The next day we decided to grab some ice cream. My mum was proudly showing off her white jeans which she could finally wear again after 10 years thanks to hear diet. I ate a spaghetti ice which is basically, vanilla ice cream put through a filter so it looks like spaghetti, strawberry sauce to act like the tomato sauce, and white chocolate sprinkles on top to act like grated cheese. My mum has been going to the same ice cream parlor for 30 years and now the man that works there expects us every year!

We decided to go to a theme park because we arrived in Germany before German schools had their Summer holidays. That means it would be absolutely empty. We managed to go on all the rides we wanted as often as we wanted. It was a boiling hot day and we were able to go on the water rides about 6 times in a row. 

Photobomb!

There was a ride at Tripsdrill, the theme park, where you would either sit on a carriage or a horse go a round a little track. My mum, sister and me decided to go on this ride for the lols. However when we got there, we had to go on a carriage and not a horse like my mum really wanted so she threw a bit of a strop haha. But we went on it again and got the horses the next time. 

I thought I'd just mention a game that my family did on the rides. Every time we were on a small ride, or it was just a tame bit of a big ride, we'd scream really loud as if it was really scary. We got a few strange looks to say the least.

Thank you so much for reading/watching. I'll be uploading the rest of my vlogs in two day intervals. The song of the day is the cover of Drunk In Love by Ed Sheeran because it is a heavenly cover. Where did you go on holiday this Summer? xxx

The Small YouTuber Tag

If you've been reading my blog for a while you will know that I make YouTube videos. And let me tell you they are so much fun to make.

This was one of the first videos I wanted to make and a year and a half later I've finally got round to doing it. I'm still a small-time YouTuber so I feel like I can still get away with it. 

Here's the video itself, I hope you enjoy:

Here are the questions if you want to give this tag a go for yourself:

1. What inspired you to start making videos?
2. How long have you been on YouTube, and have you had other channels?
3. Where do you see yourself (and your YouTube channel) in 5 years?
4. What message are you trying to get across with your videos?
5. Do people from school find your channel?
6. What does your username mean?
7. Favourite small YouTuber?

Thanks so much for watching! My Germany vlogs will be the next videos I upload. I captured my holiday the best I could so look out for them! The song of the day is Style by Taylor Swift. Thanks so much for watching xxx

8 Photos Of Happiness

I'm so sorry if I seem really inactive on my blog lately, but as you're reading this I'm probably lying in the sun trying to get a tan. Yes, I'm sorry for using the holiday excuse again but I promise I'll be more active on my social media when I return. 

Anyway, back to the actual post. I was kindly nominated by the wonderful Bria Lou from Louleecutie.blogspot.co.uk to do the 8 photos of happiness tag. Check out her post here! This tag was created by the wonderful Ariel. I absolutely love the idea of this, because for me a picture really does speak a thousand words. Let's take a look at the photos shall we?

The Rules

• Thank the nominator/s and link them in the post
• Link the creator Ariel
• Post your 8 photos of happiness (the photos can be anything that represents a moment, object, place or feeling that makes you happy)
• Pop in a brief description of the photo, why you chose it, or let the photos do the talking!
• Spread the happiness and tag up to ten other bloggers!

For some reason my sister wasn't too pleased with my pose of choice

This first one is from when my family surprised me with a trip to the Harry Potter studios for my birthday. It was honestly one of the best birthday presents I've had because I'm the biggest Harry Potter fan ever. My family pretended that we were going to visit a friend of my dad and I was in a massive strop in the car because it meant that I had to cancel plans I already made. I obviously forgave them when I found out where we were going and to this day I have no idea how they managed to keep it a secret. 

This is a proper fetus Izzy photo and it was taken by my friend on a year 7 school trip to Warwick Castle. As you can see, my class is standing by the lake which we actually weren't allowed to do. We were proper rebels and ran down to see the catapult display and chilled until the teachers came and rounded us up. Half the people on the trip came back with detentions but it was one of the school trips I've ever been on. 

Let's just excuse how unphotogenic I am. This was taken on my 17th birthday when my friends gave me the best time ever and I literally couldn't thank them enough for it. They even brought in a Colin the Catapillar cake to have at lunch time. 

It goes without saying that my selfie with Sir Alfie Deyes has to be in here. He was the first YouTuber I ever met in person and he was literally too kind for words. 

This was taken on one of the most amazing nights of my life, the Ed Sheeran concert in October. But this is a mysterious photo-oh yes! See, my sister took a photo of the stage and looked back and this random piece of hair (at least I think its hair) was in the camera shot. The even weirder bit was that no one sitting near us even had that colour hair. Creepy eh?

This photo is from when I went to see One Direction in Wembley Stadium last Summer. I couldn't get over how big the stadium was and the atmosphere inside was incredible. Luckily, the weather was fantastic too; there wasn't a single cloud in the sky. 

Since going to concerts is my favourite thing in the world to do, I had to include a photo from my first ever concert. I went to see Katy Perry with one of my friends in year 8 and I was so excited about it. However there was a bald, tall man sitting in front of us so you can see his scalp in every single one of the photos from that night which makes me laugh. 

And finally, this isn't one of my own photos but it makes me happy. It's the Birmingham German Market that takes place every year. I always feel so festive visiting it and it never lets me down. Every time I go, its bigger than before so I'm always more impressed than the last time I went. 

My nominations:

Georgie

Lauren

Al

Vicky

Rainbow-Rose Blossom 

Thank you so much for reading. The song of the day is Night Changes by One Direction. What are some of your favourite memories? xxx

I'll be back!

This year I'm going to Germany from 22nd of July to the 13th of August. I'm really excited because I'm going to visit friends and family and having a good ol' catch up with them. Not to mention the food is incredible!

Sorry, couldn't resist using this picture!

But don't worry, I'll be productive for my blogs and YouTube channel while I'm away. I really want to vlog my holiday because I want to share it and be able to look back on the great time I had. Also, I have pre-written a couple of blog posts to post while I'm away. I'll probably be doing updates about my time on my twitter and Instagram too. 

I'm gonna do my best to stay on top of things while I'm away but I cannot guarantee I'll be as active online as I usually am. Since I'm going to visit friends and family that I don't usually get to see, I want to be as social as possible to them while I'm there instead of burying my head in my laptop. If I do get comments on posts or videos I'll try to reply but I'll probably just catch up with everything when I get back to England. Also, I'll catch up with Beau Bloggers posts when I get back, I'm seriously gonna miss reading them. 

Thank you for putting up with me and hopefully you understand. I just want to take the time to mention that if I go on about my holiday a lot over the next 3 weeks, I'm not trying to brag, I'm just literally buzzing for it. 

Here's the video I made to explain where I'll be

The song of the day is We're All Going On A Summer Holiday because it really fits this post. Are you going on holiday this year, if so where? xxx

Which One Direction Member Is My Soulmate?

This post is a little random but I thought it would be fun to release my inner fan girl. As you can tell from the title, I found out which One Direction member is my soul mate... apparently. Well I'm still waiting to meet him.

I absolutely adore this band and I love each of the boys so much so I wanted to let an external factor decide who my soulmate is. In the video I found my soulmate by completing a quiz to determine it. Also, just to check the results, I took several other quizzes after filming this video and they all stated it was the same member. It must be true then!

I hope you guys enjoy and have managed to put up with my crazy fangirl side once again! The song of the day is Magic by One Direction themselves because its one of my favourite songs by them. Do you like One Direction and if so who is your favourite member? xxx

Name Dilemmas

I'm really excited to share my new video with you. This is actually the second time I filmed it because silly me somehow managed to delete the first one before I had the chance to upload it. I'm a bit of a plonker sometimes. 

Do you ever get it where people can never pronounce, spell or simply just get your name right? If so, you're not alone as I will show you in this little rant. I've also included a couple of scenarios where I have dilemmas with other people's names and things get awkward. Also, lets play the game "how many times does Izzy want to mention the names Izzy, Isabella and Isabel in one video" because I'm pretty sure I did it more than 100 times!

Anyway here's the actual video, I hope you enjoy:

The song of the day is That's Not My Name by The Ting Tings because it suits this topic pretty well don't you think? I hope you enjoy the video and let me know if you have any name dilemmas of your own xxx