Galipo Restaurant in Tosmur

Our first night out we went to Galipo Restaurant in Tosmur. We have been there before and it is one of our favorite restaurants.

The starters are in a class of their own, the food is always excellent and you get fresh fruit and tea free of charge after the meal. There is always cool music from the 80s and 90s in the restaurant.

I and mom had fried calamaris and my dad had osmanish kebab. We really enjoyed it.

 

I will give this restaurant a score of 9 out of 10.

 

The employees are very nice and polite. Here is my mom and Ali:

 

And here she is with Emin:

 

And here is mom and dad with the boss Galipo himself!

 

Please visit this great restaurant if you are in the Tosmur area, you will not regret it!

Bringing my painting to Alanya

I made a painting for mom called “The Castle In Alanya.” We brought it from Norway to Turkey.

Here it is on the wall in our apartment in Turkey:

Flying to Antalya

We had some fun with snapchat on the plane.

I was happy to see that there was a vegetarian option on the menu.

Then we got some much needed sleep.

At the airport

Mom, dad and I enjoyed a meal together before boarding the plane to Turkey. We were really looking forward to our vacation!

Life update

I have been in Turkey for 3 weeks. I am now transitioning into a raw vegan diet. I am doing it for the animals and the environment, but also for health reasons. I am 90 kg at 5 ft 6, so that puts me in the obese category. I obviously want to lose weight.

I usually start my day with some dates or two bananas. Then I go out for exercise. When I come home I make myself a smoothie, and I also make juice with my juicer. I have stopped drinking alcohol completely, and I also want to quit caffeine.

I really like mangoes, and I have maybe 3 big mangoes for dinner, and some bananas as well. Then I eat fruit for the rest of the day, and I like pears, apples and nectarines.

If I feel hungry before bed time, I eat two bananas. One tip I can give to people in Norway who are fruitarians is to go grocery shopping early on Mondays. This is the time when they throw away old fruit and replace them with new ones, like green bananas. The old fruit is ripe, and there is nothing wrong with them. If you ask politely, you can have this fruit for a cheap price and I have also experienced getting them for free.

Bananas with brown spots are great for smoothies. I am also enjoying all the juicy big dates I brought from Turkey. This is the smoothie I made today. You need:

10-15 pitted dates

1 liter of water (or how much you want)

peppermint drops (one drop is usually enough)

3 table poons of coconut sugar

Blend it up and enjoy the rush! With the peppermint drops you will get a really good, fresh breath too, so that is great.

 

My review of Schwarzkopf Blonde for hair bleaching

I have been into hair bleaching for some years now. What I like to do is bleach it on top, and let my natural dark blonde hair grow out on the bottom.

I have used Schwarzkopf Blonde L1 + for about a year and I am very happy about it. It is very easy to do at home and takes about 50 minutes with preparations, bleaching time, and then washing and conditioning. The only thing I don`t like are the gloves, so I buy separate gloves from Europris. I don`t go to hair salons any more, I fix my own hair.

I am travelling to Turkey on Saturday, so I fixed my hair today. This is the result.

 

Hair products for Turkey

I have been to Glitter and bought me some cool hair products. I have bought flowers to put in my braid, and bright pink hair color to spice things up. If I wear my glasses and have my tattoos out, I will probably look like one of the feminists out of a slut walk (minus the skanky outfit) but I don`t really care about that. I know my values in my heart. Don`t judge a book by its cover!

Check out all the cool stuff for hair, and also all the jewelry here: http://www.glitter.no

 

Hair length as of May 2016

The story of my hair is a very sad one. I basically have normal, dark blonde, nordic hair. When I was about 18 I started putting up all the time, not because I thought it looked better, but out of despair because I thought I was losing so much hair. I was wondering if I was going bald.

Then a couple of years later I was in nursing school, and I was in a very bad place and in poor condition. I was diagnosed with juvenile hypothyroidism, and I have been on meds after that. It gave me the answer as to why my hair way falling off.

After I was saved by Christ in 2008 (a story I will tell later) I started wearing my hair down, and I believe that a woman`s hair is her veil and that it should be long and that a man`s should be short. I had a long braid till 2012 when my cat died, and it effected me so deeply that I started losing my hair – again! When we went to Mallorca that year I was partially bald, and wearing wigs and extentions to hide it.

It took me many years to eventually let my mom cut my hair off, and I have let it grow out ever since then. Last year, I decided to “go natural” and let my dark blonde hair grow out again and stop bleaching it. But I have started bleaching it again simply because it is what makes me feel the best. So no, I am not all natural, but I am keeping the scissors away from my hair. It is about waist length now, and I am happy about it. This is a picture from today.

 

Mmmangoes

Last year around this time, we were heading to Turkey. Up till then, I was basically eating everything, not worrying about my diet too much.

I am overweight, so I had been looking around for answers and I had tried everything from XLS Medical to Tea Slender to Coffee Zero and nothing has worked. I spend a lot of time on YouTube, so I came across the vegan community. After that, I have changed my diet.

When I am at home, I eat mostly vegan. If I eat cheese or drink milk, I look for vegan alternatives. There is very little meat in my diet.

I am a flexitarian. That means for me, that I eat whatever is served when I am at a restaurant or at someone else`s place, but mostly eating vegan at home.

My new thing I will be trying out after we get home from Turkey, is to go fully raw. There is something about that diet that really appeals to me. I can live on fruit mostly.

I will definitely go to the fruit markets in Turkey and buy lots of fresh fruit, but I will start the fully raw diet when I get back home. I go to different places for fruit, and I like asian stores a lot. My favorite fruits are bananas and mangoes. There is nothing like a juicy yellow mango!!

 

Dinner with mom and dad at Casa di Spania Restaurant, Stord

I, mom and dad went to Casa di Spania, a Spanish tapas restaurant in my home town. It is a new establishment in what was once a prison. We ordered one of the tapas menus for three persons. It was very tasty and included:

bread with aioli and olives

crabstick salad

dates in bacon

meatballs in tomato sauce

fried calamaris

paprika filled with meat

cheese croquettes

potatoes with tomato sauce

Please visit this great restaurant, we had a great time there!

Visit their website here: http://www.casadispania.com

I will give this restaurant a 9 out of 10 on my review.