If you don’t already know, I recently visited Myanmar, which is honestly the most beautiful country I have been lucky enough to spend time exploring. A little background on the country and how I came to be there: my husband works in the international development sector, in IT. He was posted to Myanmar on a… Read More Mingalabar Myanmar!
We spent two glorious weeks in Brooklyn and New York, moving around different areas and soaking up the culture, the amazing food and atmospheres. We stayed in Queens, Bushwick, Chinatown, East Village and Manhattan. If I start with my favourite place, it was without a doubt Bushwick in Brooklyn. I loved the vibe there, the… Read More Brooklyn & New York Photo Diary
Yesterday we took a Sunday wander to the beautiful city of St Albans, for our first visit there. We both have colleagues who live there and rate it so highly, so it was time we went to have a look. I think it’s the perfect mix of town and city with the best of the… Read More Little Marrakech, St Albans
I wanted to give an honest review of our time there and what we learnt. We found good and bad things about Marrakech so for anyone about to go I hope this can help to manage your expectations and give some helpful tips. This holiday was a learning curve. I don’t want to say it… Read More Honest review of Marrakech
This is a little overdue, but I wanted to share my mini guide to Dubai and some of photo’s from our recent four day stay in Dubai on our way over to Pakistan before Christmas. We stayed in the Premier Inn Dubai Airport T3 for four nights (as it’s my company) and we were very… Read More First-time in Dubai Travel Guide
Following on from my birthday in Brighton post, this is the restaurant that we stumbled across on my birthday and it was such a gem of a place that I want to dedicate a whole post to it! I have to confess we had reservations at another restaurant but we sat down and nothing seemed… Read More A taste of Sahara, Brighton
Over the bank holiday weekend I went to my favourite local restaurant, the Moti Mahal Delux which sits at the top end of Harrow Wealdstone High Street. We live quite close to the restaurant and stumbled upon it by chance when we moved into the area. Despite there being some unfavourable reviews on TripAdvisor, every time that we… Read More Moti Mahal Harrow
I had a brain wave last weekend. I was at Dishoom in Covent Garden with Mani and I said to him subconsciously ‘I should really write about all the amazing Asian restaurants that we’ve been to in London’ and so I picked up the menu from Dishoom as we left and this is the result.… Read More Dishoom Covent Garden
Santorini has been at the top of my list of places to visit for well over a year, and I was lucky enough to visit the island for four days last month for our mini-honeymoon. I would reccommend it to anyone and I feel overwhelmed thinking back on it as it turned out to be so… Read More Santorini: The perfect island
Warning: contains spoilers. I remember watching the first two series’ of Skins at the tender age of 15, and it was one of the most engrossing series’ I’ve ever watched. The characters were a year or so older than me at the time.. and I was seeing on screen the paradigm of what would in… Read More Skins’ full circle
