slay or be slayed

Francine she/her

[franboos]

also can you send me your banner in high quality I want that as my laptop wallpaper please 🫡

ofc queen, love for tuscany 🫶🏼

[franboos]

to slay or not to slay ?

obviously to slay

[franboos]

Some good pool cafes in Amsterdam?

one of my favorites is on the Prinsengracht, its called Final Touch Snooker & Pool (Its best to reserve a table). Another nice one is De Keu (here you cant reserve tables but they do have other games that you can play while waiting) or the Pool Bar (looks cool from the inside but i do feel like it has the most tourists from all of these) :)

[franboos]

Thanks for the heads up about Antwerp, I don’t want to waste my time. I will probably skip Brussels as well but do you have anything for Leuven? So appreciative of your recs for Amsterdam. I will add them all to the list. Can’t get better than a locals opinion

Sorry I’ve never been in Leuven myself, so I’ve actually no idea haha. Just have always wanted to go myself since I know it’s a popular student city in Belgium. So if anyone here has any Leuven tips, pls do share :D

And no problem! When are you gonna go on your trip? Are you going to do a Europe trip by interrail or something?

[franboos]

I have some things listed for Amsterdam already but feel free to rec me some more :)) Would you not rec Antwerp? I don’t want to go places if they’re not worth it

I don’t think antwerp is worth it compared to other places. It has one nice square and a nice train station but that’s about it lol. Ghent is way nicer.

Some more Amsterdam tips:

- Waterlooplein (a square with thrift market during the day and has loads of thrift stores around it as well (the kilo store is great))

- The Jordaan area is very nice to walk in. Just go into random streets

- From there De Negen Straatjes (the nine streets) are close as well. With great thrift stores and boutiques and right in between al the canals.

- Waterkant is such a fun and nice restaurant (and great for drinks as well). They serve mostly Surinamese food , it’s yum and good price

- NDSM area, they have very great restaurants and The Straat museum. You get there with a free ferry from the central station. Every few weeks they also have the biggest flea market in Europe there in the weekend (The Ijhallen), you should look that up to see when it is

- The International Theater of Amsterdam (aka where i work haha), it’s on Leidse square, great food and drinks and pretty building from in and outside

- Cafe Winkel 43 for the best Apple Pie

- The Botanic Gardens once again haha, great place for a lunch as well

- Kapitein Zeppo’s is such a cute lunch place in a little street with yum food

Okay that’s all i can think of at the moment lol

[franboos]

That would be the best! Can you rec me some things in Leiden (since you put a little <3), Utrecht, Maastricht and Breda for NL and Ghent if you have any

To do in Leiden:

- Visit the Burcht (a city park with 12th century remains of a castle fort and very nice view of the city and nearby church (Hooglandse kerk))

- Restaurant De Waag (very cool building on the in and outside)

- Walk through Rapenburg street, next to the canal. Is a nice walk with pretty houses

- Go to the Hortus Botanicus

- And the city center is very walkable and not too big so it’s easy to have a pretty walk (that’s why i love this city)

To do in Utrecht:

- Visit the Sint Martin’s Cathedral and the the pretty garden next to it (Pandhof van de Dom, it gives Harry Potter vibes)

- Dom tower

- Winkel van Sinkel Restaurant and Tapas Kelder (is in the same building)

- Miffy Museum lol

- Walk past the canal in the city center (Oudegracht, that’s also where you can shop great)

To do in Breda (i’ve never been there lol):

- Grote Kerk Breda (church)

- Beer Advertisement Museum (never been, looks fun tho)

- Walk through the city park Valkenberg

- Walk through city center , have a nice lunch somewhere

Maastricht (been there once like 5 year ago lol):

- Basilica of Our Lady (again an old church thing lol)

- Bookstore Dominicanen (is a bookstore in an old church, very cool)

- Market Square

To do in Ghent (been here once as well lol):

- Korenmarket

- Saint Michael’s Bridge

- Museum voor Schone Kunsten (art museum)

- Wasbar (a restaurant which is very slay with yummy food for breakfast and lunch)

- City hall Ghent

You should also go to Amsterdam but think that was a given so i didn’t say lol <3 but have a lot of tips for that as well if you ever wanna go

[franboos]

Can you rec me any nice cities in Belgium and NL to visit? I’m doing an unlimited roadtrip

in NL: Leiden <3 , Utrecht, Haarlem, Delft, Den Haag, Maastricht (then if you are there also go to Valkenburg (in Limburg not the other Valkenburg lol), Groningen, Breda

in Belgium: Ghent, Brussel, Leuven, somewhere near the sea or smth, idk belgium is not really my vibe lol, somewhere in the Ardennes

If you want more tips on what to do in certain city’s pls do ask 👍🏼 (mostly the dutch city’s lol)

[franboos]

hi fran i need your help. i’m 18 and have never been on a date (feel like i never will lol) but i don’t get how it works. how do you do dating!? if i’ve been messaging a guy on instagram and it feels like we’re vibing will he ask to go on a date? should i ask? what if we’re messaging for a long time and nothing happens? how do you even plan a date? i feel so inexperienced and out of depth

hello hello, you are still so young so you have nothing to worry about when it comes to being ‘inexperienced’. and i don’t feel like you need experience to go on a date. bc i bet you have just hung out with friends before, and a date is like the same but with a new person lol. just ask them if they would like to go and do something sometime. for first dates it’s always best to actually do something, like go pooling, go to a game cafe, a arcade, midget golf whatever haha. bc then you can talk but also have something to do so less stress about having awkward silences. there is no harm in asking :D

[franboos]

Thank you 🤭 I will try both of those lmao and see. Is your internship working in design or will it be something like when you created Cannabags with a group of people? Your creativity is so cool 💅

haha let me know how it works out for you :D

and at my internship i’m a visual & ux designer, so that’s for webdesign. and thanks babes 😁

[franboos]

Oh heyyy, you still check tumblr! Your illness sounds the worst! I am sending you some soup to feel better 🍲 I am so happy for you dating someone new after your hot girl summer. Boy or girl? 😏 Also how did you guys meet? Tinder never works for me lol but would you recommend to try Bumble or Hinge? Your internship sounds like a lot but also so much fun if you dedicate 40 hours a week to it. I hope you're giving yourself some time to chill out now

haha it’s a guy, he also works at the theater so i met him there.

and i would recommend bumble, i liked that one the best. hinge was mostly fun bc you can see the people that liked you (before matching), so i mostly came on the app the check those haha.

[franboos]

Franjeee I miss you. How is your life going at the moment?

hey lol, sorry i’m not really on here anymore. but life is going good in one way bc i got in internship that i started it the beginning of september and it’s really nice. i’m also dating someone which is been going great and he is very slay 😁. buttt i got sick last week and it turns out i have mono/pfeiffer. and i’ve literally never felt worse in my life then how i did last week lol. but i’m getting better, just sucks that this will effect me for the next few months. and i will probably have to quit my job at the theater (🥲) bc i just overworked myself and i also need time to rest lol, since the internship is full time (40 hour work week, yes cry with me, but it’s also fun so it’s fine ig)

anyways, just chilling at my parents place till i feel good enough to go back to ams 🫡

[hotvampireadjacent]

[franboos]

You are living your best life 🤠 where abouts are you going in Ireland? It’s looks so beautiful there but not a big tourist destination. Do you have any more dating updates? I have my first date with a girl in two days so I am excited but very nervous. Hopefully if it goes well there will be more this summer🤞🏼

yeaa i am 😎 and i have actually no idea, i’m going to ireland with my fam and my dad always plans the vacations so i will just see where we end up hahah. i will tell you once we are there.

and my dating life is on the floor aka it’s not there lol. but i don’t mind, takes too much effort and now i can have a hot girl summer (like every year lol). but sounds so nice!! how did the date go ???

[franboos]

Hey Fran! I know you’re not on here much anymore but how is life? 🌱 Do you have anything nice planned for the summer?

hii! sorry late response, was at a festival with friends all weekend long, was very slay. so rn i would say life is pretty good, im hopefully close to finding an internship since i have a second interview with a company this friday so pls manifest for me. bc if i finally find an internship i can relax a lot more during this summer since i’ve nice things planned. this weekend i’m going to london with pau <3, then in beginning of july pau, aaf and i are going to greece. then end of july i’m going to ireland with my sister and parents. then beginning of august i have a family reunion with my family from the us and canada somewhere in NL (in the province where my family comes from), and then mid august i’m going to croatia with other friends :D

and obviously i’m still working at the theater restaurant (did i ever even say that on here, idk) and that’s the only constant thing i have going on in my life rn haha

do you have anything planned ??

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star wars week 2023: may 25 • favorite movie » rogue one: a star wars story (2016) (insp.)

[mynotsopinklife]

(literature girl summer) we're back to finishing a book in two days

[franboos]

Are you going to London soon?

no lol, was too scared, or not really scared but it just felt too random to just do it idk haha. also getting and staying there is so expensive :-( one day i will travel to somewhere alone tho