Its -8°C outside in Deventer, not as usual as what we had these couple of few days which could reach up to -15°C. Some say the winter is a bit early here, but one thing for sure, it’s totally freezing. I’m lucky now to be smuggled up in a warm bed and a piece of purple blanket to cover up for myself.
See, I had a lot of things going on today. I went to a couple of places which my friends and I have already planned a couple of days ago (adjusting to the Dutch culture for having everything planed in advanced, it’s not a typical habit of Indonesian which are more spontaneous and flexible) but yeah, I guess planning makes life easier, ;)
What do you have in mind when you hear the phrase “Thrift Shop”? I always have in mind of a wonderland of magical things you can find. I’m not a vintage fetish, but I would definitely spare the time to go thrift-ing just to see how you can find aged pieces of wearable edgy clothing or a wonderful pair of classic leather shoes, or those uniquely contemporary designed sling bags. They’re just such a wonder!
The other thing is that, you could also find unique antiques that is historically valuable or just things that are sold in a very very veeeery cheap price. I consider thrift shopping pretty friendly, not mentioning handy too. You can always find these weird and unique things that you don’t see much in ordinary retail stores and end up having them at home without having to regret buying them (well of course it would probably only imply on me since I’m a really picky person when it comes to shopping-I don’t know but I have too much consideration in mind which I would probably mention to you latter on). Well yea!! That was one of an amusing thing I did in the afternoon.
After spending my time admiring the lost treasures I ended up buying this unusual antiquely printed Europe map (I’ve always loved collecting tourism maps) I think that was my best buy. I took it home only € 0, 15. I also bought a cute polka dot cream head band which I wore on my picture, I didn’t really feel comfy with my pink beanie which I bought at H&M yesterday so I need something to hold up my fringe. It turned out nice to match with my favorite WE cream trench coat. ;D
After a 15 minute bike ride, we stopped by at the city center (a.k.a Centrum: an open mall which offers a different variety of shops, cafes and restaurants) my comrades and I went there to meet our friend from Emmen, a town just 1,5 hours by train from Deventer. He just got back from Barcelona for his winter vacation. So we decided to head to a café to have a little chit-chat and to warm ourselves up from the freezing weather of Netherlands. Most of us ordered an Appletaart gebak (which literally means *baked apple pie), I had mine with Slaghroom (*whip cream) yum! And I was not in the mood of drinking milky beverages so I had thee (*tea) to go along with my pie. The funny thing is that I had to choose among 24 flavors of tea, I couldn’t bother choosing one myself so I had the waitress decided for me.
W: hello! @&%@%.... @&^%$* %amp;^#&%$ &%))))… ( I guess it was ummh.. something in Dutch?- like duuhh!!)
(Which I interpreted with my amateur Dutch language ability as: “what would you like to order?”)
N: Een Appletaart gebak met slagroom Alstublieft (*One baked Apple pie with whip cream please)
W: %@&%& ^# & ….%(& %&^%&^$.......... (Which I started to get confused, and made the waitress suddenly knew my Dutch suck -__________________-“)
W: “What would you like to have for a drink?”
N: Een thee Alstublieft! (*one tea please)
W: #^$^& &(&%(&%,,,… ^*&%(&…?
N: (Then I got even more confused so I decided to give up the Dutch) “What flavors do you have?”
W: What flavor would you like, we have 24 flavours?
(Well duuhh!! like I’m supposed to be a tea geek or something)
W: “Fruit or herbs?”
N: “I want a weird one ;)”
W: Ok!
N: “A weird one ok, something that I probably wouldn’t find anywhere else ;)” (I emphasized)
(Then I got doubtful of what I just ordered. So the waitress left in a second leaving me with the doubtfulness having the meaningless self-dialogue of “should-i-or-should-i-not-order-another-one” kind of thing)
So, I ended up having a “CACTUS TEA” to warm me up along with an Appletaart Gebak. It turned out nice it “was” weird, smelled like a bit of banana, but… it was quiet nice (sort of) well yea, it’s nice. Hhehe
So what was YOUR weirdest tea flavor? ;)
P.S: please mind the photos,i know they're ugly,yea.. ;(
See, I had a lot of things going on today. I went to a couple of places which my friends and I have already planned a couple of days ago (adjusting to the Dutch culture for having everything planed in advanced, it’s not a typical habit of Indonesian which are more spontaneous and flexible) but yeah, I guess planning makes life easier, ;)
What do you have in mind when you hear the phrase “Thrift Shop”? I always have in mind of a wonderland of magical things you can find. I’m not a vintage fetish, but I would definitely spare the time to go thrift-ing just to see how you can find aged pieces of wearable edgy clothing or a wonderful pair of classic leather shoes, or those uniquely contemporary designed sling bags. They’re just such a wonder!
The other thing is that, you could also find unique antiques that is historically valuable or just things that are sold in a very very veeeery cheap price. I consider thrift shopping pretty friendly, not mentioning handy too. You can always find these weird and unique things that you don’t see much in ordinary retail stores and end up having them at home without having to regret buying them (well of course it would probably only imply on me since I’m a really picky person when it comes to shopping-I don’t know but I have too much consideration in mind which I would probably mention to you latter on). Well yea!! That was one of an amusing thing I did in the afternoon.
After spending my time admiring the lost treasures I ended up buying this unusual antiquely printed Europe map (I’ve always loved collecting tourism maps) I think that was my best buy. I took it home only € 0, 15. I also bought a cute polka dot cream head band which I wore on my picture, I didn’t really feel comfy with my pink beanie which I bought at H&M yesterday so I need something to hold up my fringe. It turned out nice to match with my favorite WE cream trench coat. ;D
After a 15 minute bike ride, we stopped by at the city center (a.k.a Centrum: an open mall which offers a different variety of shops, cafes and restaurants) my comrades and I went there to meet our friend from Emmen, a town just 1,5 hours by train from Deventer. He just got back from Barcelona for his winter vacation. So we decided to head to a café to have a little chit-chat and to warm ourselves up from the freezing weather of Netherlands. Most of us ordered an Appletaart gebak (which literally means *baked apple pie), I had mine with Slaghroom (*whip cream) yum! And I was not in the mood of drinking milky beverages so I had thee (*tea) to go along with my pie. The funny thing is that I had to choose among 24 flavors of tea, I couldn’t bother choosing one myself so I had the waitress decided for me.
W: hello! @&%@%.... @&^%$* %amp;^#&%$ &%))))… ( I guess it was ummh.. something in Dutch?- like duuhh!!)
(Which I interpreted with my amateur Dutch language ability as: “what would you like to order?”)
N: Een Appletaart gebak met slagroom Alstublieft (*One baked Apple pie with whip cream please)
W: %@&%& ^# & ….%(& %&^%&^$.......... (Which I started to get confused, and made the waitress suddenly knew my Dutch suck -__________________-“)
W: “What would you like to have for a drink?”
N: Een thee Alstublieft! (*one tea please)
W: #^$^& &(&%(&%,,,… ^*&%(&…?
N: (Then I got even more confused so I decided to give up the Dutch) “What flavors do you have?”
W: What flavor would you like, we have 24 flavours?
(Well duuhh!! like I’m supposed to be a tea geek or something)
W: “Fruit or herbs?”
N: “I want a weird one ;)”
W: Ok!
N: “A weird one ok, something that I probably wouldn’t find anywhere else ;)” (I emphasized)
(Then I got doubtful of what I just ordered. So the waitress left in a second leaving me with the doubtfulness having the meaningless self-dialogue of “should-i-or-should-i-not-order-another-one” kind of thing)
So, I ended up having a “CACTUS TEA” to warm me up along with an Appletaart Gebak. It turned out nice it “was” weird, smelled like a bit of banana, but… it was quiet nice (sort of) well yea, it’s nice. Hhehe
So what was YOUR weirdest tea flavor? ;)
P.S: please mind the photos,i know they're ugly,yea.. ;(
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