Christmas Holidays

I hope you all had a MERRY CHRISTMAS! and a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

I spent my Christmas and New Year on a Mediterranean cruise which was lovely, the weather as we left Southampton and the first 3 days was pretty terrible with gale force 8-12 winds.At one point the rolling of the ship got quite severe and my mum was thrown out of bed and glasses smashed in out bathroom. We sailed with Cunard on the Queen Elizabeth, it was a nice ship and was elaborate inside. The evening entertainment on board was very good, saw several shows and a comedian, me and my mum took part in a couple of quizzes and won woo hoo!.

On the cruise I visited Cartegena, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, Rome, Italy, Ajaccio, Corsica, Gibraltar and La Coruna, Spain. Whilst on holiday I met some really nice people from around the world who I thought had some interesting stories. I figured out how to do panoramas on my phone so I have chosen a few photos from my holiday which I like, see below:

 Monte-Carlo, Monaco

Inside the Colosseum, Rome, Italy

Trevi fountain, Rome, Italy

Me and my mum on the ship

The last few weeks...

I know I have not posted for a while, I have been extremely busy and I have also been on holiday to Norway.

I had an amazing time visiting stavanger, olden, eidfjord and krisiansand . I climbed upto the briksfdal glacier which was an amazing experience.

Work wise I have now completed 4000 words of my literature review which I am very very pleased at, I have around 25 sections to complete and I have written about 10. I will do a separate post on literature review searching as I feel I have knowledge I could pass on.

I am currently working on some samples from a zoo, so I will be spending more and more time in the lab in the upcoming weeks.

Yesterday (13th July) I decided to have a baking day, I made Victoria sponge and rainbow cakes for the first time, I am extremely happy with the results. I am unable to taste the Victoria sponge as I am on a diet and it's full fat, I will be giving this to my family.

I have been having trouble sleeping for the past few weeks so if anyone has any tips please let me know.