The switching from English to French mid sentence, the knowledge that there is a secret city underneath my feet, an all-night market and a whole area of the city dedicated to festivals; there can be no denying that there was something truly special about Montreal. Indeed the city left a lasting impression on me thanks to its eclectic neighbourhoods, its cycling culture – it’s the birthplace of the Bixi public bike …
In October this year I celebrated one year of full-time travel, not as a backpacker (am too old), not as a gap year girlie (am far too old) or as someone who was lucky enough to take a sabbatical from work or be retired (am not old enough – phew!). Instead I took my work with me. For one year I have been working and travelling as a digital nomad – …
Love it or hate it, it looks like Pinterest is here to stay. If you’ve not yet started pinning, it’s like a heady drug for visual junkies and ranks as one of the ultimate ways to waste time at work. It can also be a beautiful place for the average joe or jane – like me – to indulge in a little instant inspiration, especially when it comes to travel. …
I am a snowboarder. I am addicted to the rush of cold air that carries me down a mountain. I am a thrill seeker on snow, searching high and low for the perfect powder, pushing my limits so I am faster, stronger, better. Sometimes I fall, sometimes I hurt but always there are the mountains that I love and can’t resist and for ten years one mountain range in particular …
I should be honest and say that the alternative working title for this post was and in many ways still is “Stalking Jared Leto in Toronto.” Such was my excitement at hearing he was in town at the same time as me presenting his film Artifact, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival. Within moments of landing at Toronto Pearson I’d seen news reports that Jared had already walked down the …
Nowadays the words “unspoilt beach”, “white sand” and “clear blue sea” don’t always go together, especially when the sentence also includes the country “Thailand” where although the beaches remain stunning and paradise like, they are far from undiscovered or out of this world.
That was until I took a speedboat to Koh Racha Yai from the busy and bustling island of Phuket and thirty-five minutes later landed on a tiny island …
Did you feel that? That chill in the air? That’s autumn settling in and he will be shortly followed by his scary big brother, winter. Unless us ladies of the Northern Hemisphere luck out with an Indian summer it’s time to face facts that the summer season is drawing to a close and many of us will be suffering from post-holiday blues. However, there are a few little things you …
The unofficial Queen of handbags is not a celebrity, nor is she a fashion designer or a stylist to the stars. She is a wonderfully warm, understatedly stylish and well, “normal” Dutch woman, who just happens to be in charge of the world’s largest collection of handbags and purses. Her name is Sigrid Ivo and she is the Curator of the Tassenmuseum Hendrijke Museum of Bags and Purses in Amsterdam.
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One of the few things I didn’t pack on my RTW adventure that I really, really needed was a travel-friendly foldaway shopper bag. Not because I was regularly going wild in the aisles of Southeast Asia’s supermarkets but because every now and again I needed an extra bag; for the pair of shoes that I’d forgotten to pack and just found under the bed, to carry the “accidental” street market …
Finally I found summer! I was beginning to think it was going to pass Europe by but no it’s alive and kicking here. Admittedly, here is down in the south of France where a wash out summer season is as unusual as a Frenchman missing out on his after work aperitif, but I have to say that it feels good to be somewhere warm and not too far from a …
