Welcome to my new favourite city in the U.S (sorry LaLaLand). I’ve been wanting to go to New Orleans for so long but when it actually came down to it, I didn’t actually have a vision in my mind of […] 0 Comments Read more
This year’s been a funny one with regards to trips so far. I try and do two proper adventures a year, and by adventure I just mean further afield and over 10 days to explore a few different places. We […] 0 Comments Read more
I love travelling further afield from my London-base. The white-washed atolls of the Maldives; the vast bushland of East Africa; the vibrancy and colours of Rajasthan, and of course the neck-straining tall palms and golden light of southern California, all […] 0 Comments Read more
I was last in South Africa aged fifteen with my family so needless to say, the country’s beautiful wine country and vino it produced was kind of lost on me. While I was just entering that phase of life […] 0 Comments Read more
Our recent trip to the Maldives definitely taught me more than I expected, especially as I expected simply to learn the plots to a few new books and maybe the names of a few new tropical fish. 0 Comments Read more
I can’t believe we’re finally at the end of out California road trip blog posts, with just one stop left before it was time to head home… We were really keen to squeeze in one night in wine country while […] 0 Comments Read more
Big Sur was probably the most hyped place we went on our trip. I’ve heard people waxing lyrical about this spot on the Californian coast for years. Words like magical, spiritual and special were bandied around, along with the […] 0 Comments Read more
From Malibu, we headed north to Santa Barbara where we stayed for one night before taking a day to road trip up to Big Sur. While I loved seeing Santa Barbara (bike riding from our hotel down the beach was […] 0 Comments Read more
I’ve long wanted to see Salvation Mountain in real life after seeing photographic glimpses of this technicolour dreamland sitting in the middle of nowhere in the California. It really is off the beaten track and essentially on the way […] 0 Comments Read more
I’ll concede I’m normally that person that is away a lot and never short of salty beach days or a dose of sunshine. I’m used to being that person who people ask ‘have you had any nice hols recently’, quickly […] 0 Comments Read more
