A Right Royal Rumpus!

Unless you've been living under a rock, there's only been one piece of news dominating the last 36 hours - The Royal Baby. Exciting the world's media before he'd even left the womb, every news channel was providing wall to wall blanket coverage and #RoyalBaby was trending worldwide.

As the announcement was made that the third in line to the throne had arrived, social media exploded. People around the world shared, tweeted & commented on the news that there was a new prince in the royal household.

Originally, the Royal Family had said they would make the announcement using the centuries-old traditional method, where the easel is placed in front of Buckingham Palace with a written statement.

However William and Kate decided to break tradition and announce the arrival via Twitter.

Within minutes, the tweet had been retweeted over 15,000 times. A royal frenzy hit the world and Royal Baby birth related tweet activity was approximately 25,300 tweets per minute.

The royal baby has had over 2 million mentions on Twitter, the most tweets of a world event since Obama was elected in 2009. The Mail Online  reported 487 million people read or shared social media content related to the birth of the royal baby.

The royal baby has been born into new a digital era. It only seems fitting his birth reflect the times.

Dinner at a Spainard's House

Anyone who knows me knows I love food. A lot. Especially good quality, homecooked food. During our holiday in Spain, we were invited to have dinner cooked for us by one of my mum's friends. Never one to turn down free food, we popped on our glad rags and headed over.

The weather was warm and we arrived to be greeted with lemonade. Not from a shop mind you, fresh homemade lemonade with mint and a selection of cheeses.

 

Utterly refreshing and the perfect antidote to the Spanish sun. Our host pulled out several bottles of Rioja and we tucked into our meal as the sun set over the Valencia mountains.

Amazing pastry with tuna, egg, pepper & tomato

Traditional Spanish Gazpacho

Served in non traditional crockery - soup in china cups!

Egg with salmon and wild mushrooms

I can NOT get enough of Spanish bread. Especially with ali oli

Rocking my Black Milk Galaxy Maxi Dress

Watching the sunset from the terrace

Maxing, Relaxing....

A Spanish sunset

After our wonderful meal, we spent the rest of our short break lounging on our favourite beach, Javea where I got stuck into the Game of Thrones novels. The Red Wedding has completely destroyed me - I almost don't want to carry on reading!

Hasta Leugo!

Too much slogging, not enough blogging

It must be said, I have somewhat neglect my blog a little! Between Parklife, visits to Surrey and my job, I've literally not had a moment to stop. Don't get me wrong, I loved everyone one of those things, but sometimes you just need a moment in life to breath!

Having my usual healthy snack at work!

Luckily, I was due a break to Spain with the family for a long weekend and some much needed R & R (though I did break ranks occasionally and run off to find a source of internet - social doesn't stop for anyone).

Our house is in a beautiful little village in the Costa Blanca and to me, it's heaven on earth. Good food, good wine, glorious sunshine and the company of locals. On this particular trip, we were invited by a friend of my mum's to visit the most equisite garden.

The owner, apart from being terribly wealthy, is passionate about the botanics of the local area and bought acres of land with the aim of protecting the local flowers and plants and encouraging them to prosper. His efforts have attracted the attention of the Universidad de Valencia and they are collaborating to create a Spanish equivalant of Britain's National Parks Trust.

Perfect for a production of Romeo & Juliet!

The gardens often play host to wonderful outdoor concerts with guests sitting under the beautiful natural canopies of plants and flowers whilst listening to strains of classic musical weave amongst them like vines.

A plant called, believe it or not, Wolf's Fart....

The sweetest wild strawberries I've ever tasted!

I spent the whole day there and still didn't get to explore as much as I would have liked!

Hasta leugo!