A travel writer's life
This is basically a bible for travel-lovers and I absolutely love it! Subtitled A Traveller’s Guide to the Planet, it’s a 990-page ultimate A to Z of every country in the world. Full of facts and figures, maps, top things to do and see, beautiful pictures, and advice about when […]
One of my favourite things is dreaming of future travels and adventures in far-flung places. Unable to go anywhere special during lockdown (the supermarket doesn’t count!), those dreams have only got bigger by the day. As pretentious as it sounds, I love to surround myself with a few nice things […]
If, like me, you’ve been getting your regular travel fix from the BBC’s Race Across the World every Sunday evening – best tv show EVER in my opinion – and you’ve developed a dream of backpacking the globe as soon as lockdown is over, you’ll undoubtedly be a bit distraught […]
I absolutely love everything about the design of these Kona Brewing Co. Hawaiian beers. I spotted them in my local M&S and they struck me because of their beautiful, idyllic Art Deco-style illustrations which transport you to a different time and place. At £2.20 a can they’re certainly not cheap […]
Just over a week into self-isolating, I’m feeling a lot better. My already-mild COVID-19 symptoms are thankfully easing. I’m having what I call slight “chesty-relapses” with the occasional half-day of tight chest and struggling to breathe, but even these are decreasing. AND IT ALREADY FEELS LIKE I’VE BEEN OFF FOR […]
I have the Coronavirus. …at least, I think I do. I’ve had some of the symptoms, but not all. And for the last few days I’ve struggled to breathe. Without being tested I can’t be sure. And that’s what makes this situation really frustrating in the UK. I’m self-isolating. But […]
I have a ‘gulp birthday’ coming up. What’s that? Well, it’s my term for one of those scarily significant birthdays when you’re entering a whole new decade. I add the ‘gulp’ because even though you know it’s only a number and it doesn’t really mean a lot, try telling your […]
I’m really excited that this food and drink festival, practically on my doorstep, has become an annual fixture on the calendar. It usually takes place on the late May bank holiday weekend. There are loads of stalls selling artisan and locally-produced food and drink, as well as live musicians, dragon […]
Dropped. Squashed. Lost. Dropped. Lost. Survived. No, that’s not a strange new take on the fates of Henry VIII’s wives; it’s actually the fate of my sunglasses during my travels over the last few years! Sadly, among my family and friends, it’s become expected that I’ll either lose or damage […]
No, not Christmas, but Italy. And I must stop picturing it as a holiday; it’s a ‘working trip’ ? But after more than six months of thinking about and planning this one I can’t believe we’ve actually reached this point. The little things have started coming together… we finally got […]