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I’ve been Instagram-ing (surely it’s time for that to be a verb?) for over a year now and even before I embarked on long term travel I loved capturing special, funny, precious, weird and wonderful moments on my iPhone. Having a collection of colourful photographs from the places I’ve been during my ongoing travels has only increased my love of the Instagram app. Here are my favourite photos from the …
I sometimes believe I was born & raised in the wrong decade. Although the 90′s brought me great joy (thanks mainly to the Spice Girls) I often wish I could have been a Travelette from another time, specifically the 1960′s or early 1970′s. So yes it was before the days of the cheap flights, hair straighteners and travel blogging, but there was something so glamorous and mysterious about the Pam Am girl…
When …
During my recent travels through Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand I loved meeting (and spending!) each country’s currency. The notes, coins and amounts were all new and exciting to me. As I travelled on to the next country I somehow ended up collecting and keeping hold of a collection of change which threatened to push me over the edge of many airlines’ restricted luggage weight. However, I couldn’t help …
I’ll be honest, I didn’t even know what wakeboarding was when my friend first told me she was hooked on it. When we skyped a year or so ago, she on the balcony of her apartment in Kuala Lumpur (KL), and me freezing next to the radiator in my small London flat’s kitchen, she enthused about her new love for “wakey.” I nodded and lied convincingly, “I’d love to try …
Berlin these days is not for the faint of heart: the pursuit for the ultimate slurp of coffee has increased demand for fine-tuned establishments offering more than your average Milchkaffee.
You need to know your flat white from your V60 or Aeropress. Stumptown in, Starbucks out. On a mission to find out more and learn exactly what all these exotic words mean, I went to visit Leuchtstoff Kaffeebar, an oasis of …
A while ago, when we told you about how to keep your memories in books with Blurb, I told you that we were in the process of creating a little book for ourselves. Now I’m happy to announce that it is completed and online! With “The Travelettes Diary”we collected a short guide on how to travel like a Travelette.
Apart from our favourite photos, it contains a mixture of travelicious tips …
It’s all about the little things. Yes, it’s easy to live fully in the moment and be bubbling over with happiness during a travel excursion, but how does one maintain that sense of adventure the rest of the time? It’s all about appreciating the small things, and setting positive events in motion. It’s about having fun and making life a never ending celebration. It’s about learning, growing, and …
Isn’t it nice when your expectations are exceeded? No. It’s not nice. It’s Wonderful. Wonderful with a capital W for W Hotels. Such was the case from the moment I checked in at W Barcelona until the second I left begrudgingly pulling my case behind me through a lobby decorated with reflective disco ball style walls.
This was my first experience of W Hotels, a brand owned by international hotel giant, …
A while ago I got a nice email from a french girl who asked me if we could do a feature on her project. I had a look at her work and was very impressed! Julie is a 31-year-old freelance graphic and web designer from Paris. When traveling she collects everything she crosses: photos, stamps, postcards, receipts, notes, underground tickets, napkins and so on to create beautiful travel notebooks for …
In the last few weeks we’ve given you the opportunity to win some beautifully illustrated maps and shared with you some of the most beautiful creations using maps, it’s safe to say that we are fairly map-obsessed bunch us Travelettes. So when I saw an old 1998 UK Road Atlas destined for the recycling bin in my parents’ house, it pulled at my heart strings enough for me to swiftly liberate …
