Little Larey Loves

Lara May 3, 2016 NYC

Love In The Concrete Jungle Of New York City

Okay, I’m finally ready to share the first leg of our month long honeymoon road trip across the US of A. So here it is, part one of our crazy cool adventure! You can read all about how we rocked our wedding in this post. And since I’m running the show on this little corner of the internet I will be sharing… View Post

Lara April 22, 2016

Spring Is Here! Hallelujah!

Even though we didn’t really have a harsh winter this year in Holland, it felt like the only weather we’ve seen since October was a not so fun combo of gray & wet. So when the leaves started to turn green, the flowers started to bloom and the sun finally showed up (and stayed!) the only right thing to do was to scream… View Post

Lara March 26, 2016 Isle of Skye

Why The Isle Of Skye Should Be Your Next Destination

As a gift for our wedding (see more about that here) one of our friends gave us a gift certificate for Canopy and Stars, a UK based company with hundreds of lovely and unusual rental cottages from British house owners. We spent hours and hours looking through their database and finally decided on a gorgeous – and I mean really freaking gorgeous –… View Post

Lara March 10, 2016

This Is How We Rocked Our Wedding

Who got married? This girl. Yes, ladies and gentlemen. After five years of dating and three years of living together, my man made a honest woman out of me. We tied the knot. We got hitched. We took the plunge. We did. Little Larey is now officially a wifey. And loving it, might I add. And since I am very… View Post

Lara February 19, 2016 Wroclaw

Wonderful Winter Weekend in Wroclaw

Last weekend we celebrated my handsome husband’s birthday with a weekend getaway. Thanks to Skyscanner I found amazingly cheap tickets (like €45 cheap) to Wroclaw – a gem of a little city in Southwestern Poland. Truth be told: I had to google it. And when I saw some pictures of the cutest town square ever I was sold. And also: Wroclaw… View Post

Lara January 22, 2016

Snapshots From Our Amsterdam Staycation

Last weekend was the fourth edition of the Amsterdamse Hotelnacht (Amsterdam Hotel Night), an event where local Amsterdammers can stay in participating hotels for a lovely Amsterdam staycation. This year we chose to stay in the DoubleTree by Hilton at the NDSM wharf, the industrial and creative hood at the old dockyards in Amsterdam North. Since we have family in… View Post

Lara December 18, 2015

Snapshots from Restaurant C

Sunday December 6th we celebrated our 3-month wedding anniversary (wait what, 3 months already?!). And a celebration calls for a nice meal and some nice wines, amiright? Since I read some stellar reviews of the newest hotspot in Amsterdam Oost, we decided to head east and go to Restaurant C for their delicious 4-course lunch. Here’s why should you too.… View Post

Lara October 21, 2015

Newlyweds On A Crosscountry USA Road Trip: Let’s Go!

That’s right people. Our coast to coast USA campervan honeymoon road trip (try saying that three times really fast) is about to begin. Hallelujah. For those of you who don’t follow me on Instagram (what?!) and missed all my spam posts filled with my untamed excitement for this trip: our honeymoon is going to be an epic adventure. There I… View Post

Lara October 16, 2015

Stuff I Love #1

YAY! Little Larey Loves is finally live. I say finally because it has been a little pain in the arse to get this baby ready for the launch. Mostly because I’m quite the perfectionist, but also because I’m stubborn and I had my mind set on learning myself how to code (#nerdalert!), which turns out is not a skill to be… View Post

Lara October 8, 2015

Snapshots from Restaurant Choux

This month marks our three year anniversary with our amazing apartment at the Oosterdokskade in Amsterdam. If you’ve had the pleasure of visiting our place you already know that #ourhouserules. And even though we absolutely love our place, the location can’t be beat and obviously we have the best view in all of Amsterdam, it was a pretty big adjustment… View Post

Lara August 12, 2015 Turkmenistan

Inside Turkmenistan: Land Of Marble And Sand

Last month my man and I embarked on an adventure that had been on our list for quite some time: exploring unexplored Central Asia. This large area between Europe and Asia consists of five former Soviet countries that are all pretty much undiscovered and off the grid: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Due to time restraints we had to… View Post

Lara July 31, 2015

Five Great Books For On The Road

One of the new year’s resolutions that just keeps making it on the list each year is the intention to read more the coming year. Don’t get me wrong, I really love reading, but for some reason I just can’t make it a daily habit. Recently I’ve started to read on the train to work from Amsterdam to The Hague, but between… View Post

Lara June 6, 2015 Hong Kong

My Five Favourite Food Finds In Hong Kong

One of the highlights of our return visit to amazing and mesmerizing Hong Kong was without a doubt the food. Ever since our one month adventure in China in the summer of 2013 we have been big, very big, fans of the local cuisine. Especially dim sum. You seriously can wake me up anytime for hot and steamy shrimp dumplings or… View Post

Lara April 15, 2015

The Kim Utopia – Paintings from North Korea

For me, one of the highlights of our trip to North Korea was seeing all those extremely big propaganda posters on the streets, in the schools, practically everywhere. I don’t think you can even call them posters since most of the time they’re actually murals. Some of them painted, some of them beautiful mosaics. All of them intended to portray the North… View Post

Lara February 24, 2015

Between The Walls Of Old Manila

Apparently, Manila was known as the “The Pearl of the Orient” when it was under Spanish rule, roughly between 1580 and 1890. Spoiler alert: it’s not anymore. I don’t mean to be harsh because I can imagine it was once a beautiful city with a perfect location east of Manila Bay, but if you’re flying out to Manila and expect… View Post