Harboured

I remember one sweet commenter who said to me "don't be afraid to go tomboy". I actually have, especially when dresses become more common during this time of year.

Btw, happy summer.  I'm practicing my 'moody-but-beautiful' expression over here, and my conclusion is that I look better with a genuine smile.

So what have you been up to this summer?

Floating House

The people of 2011: Francesca & Eduardo

 

 Same boat and same Brazil. However, sometimes you can connect to some persons in a short time.

Posing for me, both of them

Francesca & Eduardo were, and hopefully still are, a Brazilian couple that were on the same boat as me and my boyfriend. The whole boat had a kind of couply element, even the two boys seemed to be together, although in Brazil the whole coming-out process would be more complicated than in Holland. 

"Come into my arms, you photographer girl"

Francesca let her boyfriend pose a lot, and I think he had more camera time than her...she called him 'Lindo Lindo...' (beautiful masculine form) all the time, and the pictures of him were 'Lindisimo'. Quite the flatterer, that Francesca.

yep Eduardo, sometimes boys have to sit still, be pretty and pose nicely...

In coupleness, you find often the two to be of a mutual attractiveness...that is defined biologically, to go for people with similar beauty. Men, often, can get a prettier girlfriend by means of their money, humour or succes and the peer-pressure to get a sort-of-trophy girl encourages them to aim higher. As for women, they are often too modest to go for a prettier specimen of men.

That implicates that Eduardo was the prettiest one of the two. But I really liked Francesca in a high extend and her radiant self made her to be just as attractive as her boyfriend, if not even more.

Francesca, snapping pictures of her Líííndo boyfriend

Personally, I dated boys that were better looking than me. My very first date was so ridiculously attractive that I said no to him a couple of times, just to realize he must be somewhat interested in me (somehow) so I said yes...So for girls I would always advise not to miss out on a person because you think he'd be too attractive for you, attraction and what the other finds to be attractive is so much more dependant than just on the mere spectrum of the visual and voyeuristic part.

Eventually, both Lindos, really social, although Franchesca was the better one in English, and really sweet together....

Both together: posing for couple-photographer on the boat

Summer 2011: Ferry me merry

On the ferry with the buggy from Tibau do Sul up North...

Bem Brazil: Travel 2011

In 2011 I was finally able to visit one of my wislist destinations. Bem Brasil:

Brazil actually was my no 1 destination: as a young girl I watched the video of cultsong Lambada, and Brazil and its fiery passion was embroidered in my mind.

So visiting a country after more than 22 years of seeing the video and listening to Lambada was quite an impact

This is me in Brazil on a boat as a kind of  female pirate (see the pirate flag) or a Santa Helena (Saint, which looks like in by the way I pose and the halo-effect around me).

(tiltshifted, and not edited by a skinnifying tool...girlfriend has some hips: that's female!)

Ps: for the fashion pack I am wearing the Matthew Williamson by H&M pareo and a Vix bikini. The Hat is from the Bijenkorf