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Today I'm bringing in a post just a bit out of the usual. For two different reasons. The first one is that, as you may have already noticed, we have a sort-of-mirror-post, which is written both in English and Spanish. The second is that you know I'm not very into sharing photos of me with little clothes, which today changes with this fun white lace Hunkemöller cover up from their Doutzen's Summer Stories.

Although I admit I'm a die-hard fan of swimsuits and push up bikinis as clothing in which live 24 hours a day in Summer-time  (and besides, there are lots which fit pretty nicely). So, when Hunkemöller offered me the opportunity to collaborate with them as a blogger, I decided to go for this light cover up to throw over my two-piece bikini because I thought it was different than usual. It is difficult to find something comfy, light and pretty in which you can put a foot on the beach without burning yourself, or wear it above your Summer attire when you're not at the water or you'd had enough sunbath for the day, but this one really caught my eye on their website, and I just thought... Why not?

One of the things that I liked most about hearing about Hunkemöller has been that they have a huge variety not only of patterns available but also plenty of sizes. It does not matter if you are looking for Brazilian-cut bikini panties or larger sizes that maybe, cover a little more or suits better the chest so eventually, the back doesn't hurt. If like me, you are someone that has a size above 40 or L in the bottom because you are a happy-wide-hip girl and then there's your booty, but on the other hand, your bra size is quite small: nothing happens! They have an infinity of possible combinations that adapt to all of us at a budget-friendly price. No more suffering at the bikini challenge and, skin showing already!

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Hoy os traigo un post un poco fuera de lo habitual. Por dos motivos diferentes. El primero es que, como habréis podido observar en un primer momento, es que tenemos post-espejo, es decir: escrito tanto en inglés como en español. El segundo es que, sabéis que no soy muy aficionada a compartir fotos mías con poca ropa, cosa que hoy cambia con esta túnica tan divertida de encaje blanco de Hunkemöller, de su colección Doutzen's Summer Stories.

Did you know about Hunkemöller and their swimwear collection?

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¿Conocíais Hunkemöller y su línea de ropa de baño?

Venice is one of those places that had never been on my bucket list of places to visit. I was scared away by the insane amount of clichés I had seen everywhere (books, movies, collective imagination) and the amount of tourism, that as most had told me, had left the city like an urban corpse where no one there lives anymore following any path of "day-to-day regular lifestyle" (like, you know, those things everyone does when living in a "regular" place: go to school, go to the supermarket, fix the plumbing, just to name a few). But, despite the hordes of tourists looking for the perfect shot and having the need of being very attentive to the prices in places to eat near the center (which is basically EVERYTHING surrounding Piazza San Marco), it was one of the most amazing places I have ever visited. Not only for the already world-known beauty of its canals, and the charming and mysterious atmosphere of its houses built on the water and its narrow streets. Venice is that city in which the daily logistics are simply, different. Where it is necessary to mount the scaffoldings taking huge consideration of the foundations of wooden poles that support the buildings, and where it is necessary to move the construction cranes by boat, as well as using this modus operandi delivering the packages that Amazon sends you. It was very interesting to experience all this firsthand and take consciousness of, despite all the tourists and tourist traps and prices, there's still a bit of daily life in such peculiar place.

The city of Venice is very rich culturally and architecturally speaking. In addition to bridges as touristy as the Rialto bridge or the Ponte dei Sospiri, there are lots of museums, churches and small craft workshops where it is worth entering to take a look and support the local economy and learn a little more about the culture of the city. When we were there it was very hot, but you see me wearing the coat and high boots because the previous days it was quite cold here in the north of Italy. As always, my advice here is to always put on many thin layers and remove them if you see that suddenly begins to make a higher temperature.

How about you? Have you ever visited a place that surprised you not only because of its beauty but also because it had some particular aspect that was not very apparent at first sight?

I was wearing:

Shein chiffon white blouse with lace

Zara blazer

The Monster booties

Mango striped pants

Louis Vuitton Noé bag

I was wearing:

Shein ruffled sleeves crop top
Silvian Heach culotte pants
Massimo Dutti sneakers
Louis Vuitton Noé bag

That does not mean that my time, my effort, enthusiasm and the eagerness employed here are worth nothing. From the sponsor who thinks that the domain and blog theme and spending an average of 3-4 hours taking photos and processing them, can be payed with a nice dress, to those  all who don't accept criticism and laugh at you adding a "who do you think you are, if you are just a spoiled girl who isn't even read by her relatives". Sometimes it is difficult. But then I think it's something I do because I want to and because I like it, and then I'm no longer angry.