NYFW S/S 2015 // After Rachel Zoe #1

Let's kick off my new semester in this great city with New York Fashion Week! Yes, you saw it right, it's my second week here and I am doing a study abroad semester! Super excited to share this experience with you guys! Fashion Week is almost over, today is the last day, but if you're in New York City, one of THE most fashionable cities in the world, you must!!! especially during fashion month take some nice street style shots. Enjoy the first pictures before and after the show of Rachel Zoe. 

More street style pictures are coming, 

so stay tuned ♥

Silver, don't leave us yet!

Adore this blazer!

What a smile!!!

Kisses from New York ♥

I fell for this handbag!

There she was, Olivia ♥

Food Friday: The Pancake goes around the World

 Vancouver, Canada

How to bring two of your favorite hobbies together? 

Travel & Food?

Cook for your dear hosts and friends 

to show some gratitude :)

My plan was to bake bread for them, but as you might already know from my previous travel posts: No planning is the best travel advice! Find something else what everyone, yes everyone loves: namely P-A-N-C-A-K-E-S! As a foundation of all my pancakes, I take this recipe of my vegan banana pancake with almonds. Then, I would just see what kind of ingredients my friends would like to have. The result is a big improvisation, maybe a challenge but always with a super yummy outcome and happy tummies :)

Pancake #1 served in Vancouver was rather a non-vegan cheat-pancake because the dough included: white flour, white sugar, milk, bananas, chocolate-chips, blueberries and almonds. What a lovely treat for breakfast *.*

North Vancouver, Canada

Pancake #2 served in North Vancouver was healthier because it included flax & spelt flour, bananas, almonds, chia seeds and goji berries, therefore tons of superfoods. We enjoyed it with Matcha Latte and good old fashioned Canadian Maple Syrup. Never had it before, so yummy! ♥

 San Francisco, California

Pancake #3 served in San Francisco was a real challenge!!! Carla's boyfriend is on a special diet and is not allowed to eat many things.. such as banana, almonds, chocolate, mango, tomatoes (not that I would put them in the pancake) .. but all the good stuff! :O Clearly, for a foodlover like me, I answered with: Challenge ACCEPTED!

This specialty, which made it to the healthiest pancake, included: not sticky coconut flour, coconut milk, peaches! yes, he can eat peaches! tapioca, and I think that was it! Although the pancakes looked more like burgers or patties, the judges aka my friends liked it. I thought it was so-so since this coconutty pancake can definitely be upgraded! Anyone interested in a small experiment with me? :) 

Enjoy your weekend guys! ♥

I'm off to New Adventures, 

New York I'm all yours now!

Last Stop in San Francisco ♥

 Beautiful view

 A bit of sightseeing out of the car

Hello San Francisco!

My one-month trip ended in San Francisco, where I met my dear friend Carla, who I got to know in a hostel in Miami two years ago. How come? Well, we stayed in touch and since I was already on the Westcoast in Canada, I took the flight down south to see her! It wasn't planned, not at all.. but when we skyped on my last days in Vancouver, I wanted to see her even more. 

We spent some real quality time together and I got to know her lovely dog Jazzie and some of her friends. One day, we went for a nice walk in Tiburon, had lunch at Sam's Anchor Café and finished the day with a beautiful sunset in the Crissy Field Park.

 Tiburon, San Francisco

 Where are the apples coming from?? :)

 Crissy Field, San Francisco

On our last day together, Carla took me to this amazing hike to Claremont Canyon in Berkeley. Also, it was International Dog Day and Jazzie seemed pretty happy to spend the afternoon hiking.

Carla! Thank you so so much for everything! You still inspire me and I cannot thank you enough! I am definitely coming back and if not to San Francisco, I am sure, we are going to travel and hike together somewhere else.. 

Hugs and love to you & Jazzie ♥