It was a question we pondered for months – so much so that we left ourselves in danger of everything being booked up! Where should a couple of travel bloggers go on their honeymoon? We struggled with where to begin. Our options ranged from Japan to New Zealand to Colombia to Madagascar to California and … Read more
Five weeks to go! We’re getting married in five weeks time! It’s filling most of my moments with thoughts of flowers, seating plans, dresses and all the other things that weddings are made of. But of course the biggest ingredient is love. It’s what I keep coming back to every moment that something stresses me … Read more
The empty house chided me. “You shouldn’t be here. You’re needed elsewhere.” Steve had left that morning – set off for the States to release his first feature film. The stress leading up to that moment had been an immense pot of late nights, never-ending deadlines, and dreams turned to doing. The premiere at SXSW … Read more
I’m pretty late to the party, but over the past year I’ve fallen head over heels for Instagram. I was slow to embrace it as I couldn’t quite face the idea of yet another social network, but this one has become my favourite (closely followed by Pinterest). I mostly follow travellers so my feed is a … Read more
In four weeks time I plan to be in one of two radically different situations. I may be in Austin, getting ready for the premiere of Steve’s film at SXSW. It’ll be the first week of a five-week tour of the States. We’ll go to New York, Washington, LA, San Francisco and Chicago. It’s a … Read more
Today is my Dad’s birthday. It’s still a birthday even though he’s been gone for the last 14. The rawness of grief doesn’t heal like a scar, only to be re-opened if you scratch at it. It’s more like a delicate pile of fallen leaves, protecting the wound at its root. The pain is always … Read more
We started the year with an Om. Eight friends in the midst of a 17-course feast. A scene that set the tone for a year about coming home. January was spent in Devon, a land of rolling hills, craggy cliffs and clouds that move on high-speed. We ate a lot of pasties. We also went … Read more
Tonight I’ll see six friends. We’ll eat at a pop-up Syrian restaurant then head to our local that shares my name. Friends and a local pub. We’re home again. We’ve seen a lot of friends and family these past few weeks – friends from school, friends from uni, cousins, the type of friends you keep … Read more
In a month’s time I’m starting something new – the meeting of two streams that I’ve dipped in an out of over the past 12 years. That first stream is yoga, a practice I first met when I was a student in London and I took my first yoga class with a characteristically stern Iyengar … Read more
The pace of a city shapes it. Rio rotates to the rhythms of samba, Rome struts, and Sydney saunters. This week I returned to London, a city that races through its days. Any visitor who has ever been here and made the mistake of standing on the left of an escalator will have experienced the … Read more