I’m Feeling Thirty Two

Birthdays are important to me. Maybe it’s childish but I think they should always be celebrated, no matter how old you are. Birthdays are important to me. Maybe it’s childish but I think they should always be celebrated, no matter how old you are.

Six Weeks

Six weeks. Six weeks ago I had just come back from Venice. I came home feeling like I had a grip of where my life was going in the run up to 32, motivated by my travels and filled with a sense of contentment I hadn’t felt in a while. Italy had just started to…

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New York City Travel Guide

New York, New York. So good they named it twice. Honestly I barely even know where to begin with a travel guide for NYC, and I’m by no means an expert – you could live there for a decade and have hardly touched the sides – but I have been a few times so hopefully…

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Toulouse Travel Guide

Too short a time in lovely Toulouse, but enough to get a good taster of this pretty pink city. I’d need to go back for a proper mini break for a decent length travel guide, but there are absolutely some gems worth passing on here, so here’s a bite sized version for you. 

How Your Food Shop Can Pay For Your Holiday

Anyone who knows me, knows I’m obsessed with collecting Avios points. I am as strategic as one can be in the pursuit of what I view as one of the greatest pleasures of life: flying business class. I’ve been lucky enough to fly business class to New York twice in the past year, which was…

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The Pros and Cons of Solo Travel

Why should you miss out on a well-deserved holiday or travelling somewhere you’ve always dreamed of going because you haven’t got anyone to go with? So what you don’t have a partner to go to Paris with, and your mates are too busy holidaying with their boyfriends to lie on the beach in Thailand. No…

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A Solo Trip to Paris

When I was much younger, I recall being set on the idea of going to Paris with a boyfriend. It is, of course, the ultimate cliché, but clichés are clichés for a reason, and I had this idealistic notion of being whisked off to Paris by some hot man for a weekend of romance in…

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Turning 31

I absolutely loved turning 30. I had a very slight wobble which lasted a few days a couple of months prior and from then on in I loved every bit of it. So why am I finding 31 so much more difficult? It’s just one more year and nothing has really changed. Well, that’s exactly…

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