Put a ring on it.

For a long time I truly believed in love stories, then, on my teen years I decided that love wasn't necessary and marriage was just a paper, that finding "the one" was just an excuse for daiting. I was so wrong.

Love is a hard word to understand, it means so many things and it empties itself without a storm warning. Maybe it is natural for humans to be a little bit a afraid of it but at the same time to feel the need to find it and keep it. 

Lately I've been thinking about the actual meaning of falling in love and finding your life partner. Truth is not the nicest thing, specially when you have to agree that love is necessary just because nobody likes to be alone and lets face it, been in love feels crazy good. 

To make it easy, love, marriage, happines, kids, they are all a big package. Of curse you can choose what things you want from that box but in a dream place, you get them all and you live happy with the person you love, with your dog and three children, in a big house with amazing garden. Just like fairytales.

To be honest, even know I don't believe in that life, it seems too good, as if you cheat yourself by having all the things society told you were the answer to your sadness. 

I believe in racional decisions, falling in love is not one of those. Love comes into your life without you even realizing it is happening, and soon you become a girlfriend, a wife, a mother. Of curse you can keep your job and be an independent lady, but at the end of the day your still a woman that followed the path every other woman did and is not necessary a bad thing but it is also not the best. 

I'm starting to sound like a bitter girl with no love life, in reality I have a boyfriend and I love him, sometimes I even love him too much. He has made me change some ideas about relationships and how to deal with every detail, sometimes it feels like I need to learn again all the things I believed I knew. 

I don't think is easy for anyone to understand why, if I have a boyfriend, still don´t believe in cheesy crazy love. The answer falls itself on my own relatioship and how my boyfriend says he cares about me and he says things that could be considered cruel, and even after he apologizes for it, I don't just forget them. Yes, I do forgive him most of the times but the can´t really erase words just by repeating "I'm sorry".

In conclusion, if you find yourself deeply in love them make sure you live every second of it as if it were your last, love doesn't always lives through it all but it doesn't matter if you feel love deeply and for a short time or it you love someone for the rest of your life, the most important thing is to let yourself feel all those things. 

My new Batchel in Vintage by The Cambridge Satchel Company.

Now, british do know how to make beautiful stuff.

When I first took an interest on the Cambridge Satchel Company I wasn't sure I was going to actually buy one of their bags and to be honest I was more excited about The Mini than the Batchel. Don't get me wrong, all of their products are crazy beautiful and super well done but I felt like a petit bag was more me than a strong powerful batchel.

The process of deciding to buy a batchel actually started when I saw The Designer and I thought it would be perfect as an university "backpack" but the colours where just not right for me. I mean, the design is perfect but the yellow and the purple and the green, just not my style. I needed something more classic, so I of curse went for The Classic and saw the perfect tone for me: Vintage. I was 100% sure I was going to get the model, and then I saw The Batchel, the perfect combination between classic and character, formal and casual, oh my God, perfection.

When it got to my hands I noticed the box with the bike logo which had inside a bag to protect my bag, now: you know you get a quality bag when it has its own bag. (Sorry I mumble) Everything I saw on the online store was exactly the same, I truly recommend buying there, you will get the exact product you buy.

I was surprised that my bag came in so quick, it took literally three days to get from England to my hands and I have ordered lots of things from the UK before and it never takes such a short period of time. The bad thing was the extra £25 I had to pay as taxes. So free delivery but same price for taxes, I guess it wasn't that bad after all. A lot of people say that their CSC bag took way too long to delivere (up to two and a half months), but I am not joking, mine only took 3 days and yes I ordered directly from CSC.

The packaging was simple, a cardboard box with the bicycle logo printed on it and on the inside some air filled plastic bags that were totally great to avoid the bag to move. Now the dust bag is a plus all the time and inside, the actual Batchel, without any scratch. I wanted to order the gift wrapping but changed my mind at the last moment, just thought it would get less attention if the packaging was simple.

The dust bad and the printed cardboard box won't be available unless you order directly for the store, so any other dealer won't send this.

Now, the important part. The leather is very soft, you know, for the standars of leather, the seams are made with great precision, the colour is just so beautiful, a light brown almost as milk chocolate colour. The only thing I don't really like is the strap, is just too long and even buckled to the shortest setting it looks very long, so maybe get that fixed, also the little unclosures are a bit hard to fasten/unfasten, and since I need to open my bag a lot of times, this is causing them to be a bit more soft than the rest of the leather but no big deal. 

My batchel is the 15", which is the only size, and it can fit so many things, my laptop fits perfectly along with its charger, my iphone, the charger of the iphone, my notebook, pens, snacks, keys, everything fits. There is enough space if you actually know how to use it. I'm not sure about the 14" Satchel been able to fit a laptop. If you want to get a Cambridge Satchel Company bag to use it as you go to school bag, I recommend the 15" size in any model (I'm not considering the backpack because well, it is a backpack so it should have enough space)

Now, I use my bag as a shoulder bag most of the times and the handle makes it look more sophisticated, so I do recommend spending those £11 that can make that difference. The briefcase look that it has when using the handle is amazing, everyone looks at it no matter how I use it, as a shoulder bad, a crossbody or a briefcase.

Overall, it is one of the best bags I've ever had/seen, it hasn't break which is a lot to say since my last three bags snapped as soon as I put all of my college stuff inside, it has no scratches so far and lets be honest I'm not taking care of it as I should. They might not be the more affordable bags but know that you're paying for a high quality product so nicely done it would make all of your bags look ordinary.