With its colourful buildings, Art Deco architecture, and proximity to wonderful wineries Napier is a must visit New Zealand destination. I’ve had is on my must-see list for a while, so when a recent bank holiday weekend coincided with my Birthday week we hired a car for a little break in the Art Deco capital…
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Travel Tuesday: Instagrammable locations for your travel bucket list
I’ve got a pretty big trip coming up next year, which I’ll be sharing more about in the next few weeks, and planning it has made me think about my travel bucket list. All of the amazing places I’ve already ticked off, and the places I’m yet to see. I did a trawl through my…
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Beautiful Bristol: Colourful Cliftonwood
Autumn’s here and I don’t know about you but something I love to do in this season is go for long walks. It really makes me feel like I’m shaking away some of the cobwebs so I can stave off the desire to hibernate for just a little longer. Around Bristol there are some beautiful…
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Beautiful Bristol: Upfest 2018
So last weekend saw the return of Upfest, Europe’s largest street art and graffiti festival, and yet another reason why Bristol is one of the best cities to spend a summer in. Upfest, in its 10th year, attracts over 400 artists from around the world to paint venues across Bedminster and Southville. In between torrential rain…
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#2017BestNine
Hello lovelies and happy new year! I hope you’ve all had fab Christmases and new years’ and that January hasn’t been too much of a shock to the system. For me January is a time for planning, goal setting, getting organised in all elements of my life (hello clothes clear-out ??) but also reflecting. I…
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#2016BestNine
Happy New Year dear readers! I took a pretty long blog and social media break over the festive season and I really needed it. After a pretty tough and tiring year both personally, professionally and of course on a much wider scale it was nice to spend the season with people I loved, eating good…
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Beautiful Bristol: Colourful Bristol Doors
If any of you follow me on Instagram you’ll know that I kind of have a thing for pretty, painted, or colourful doors. I don’t know what it is but they always make me smile and take a picture. It may have started when I went travelling and took countless photos or the ornate and…
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Travel Tuesday: Vienna
Well this post has been a long time coming, I intended to start the Travel Tuesday series way back last year with my Prague trip, and I still have planned posts for the places I visited in South East Asia and India so sit tight for those. However, I thought I’d start with my most…
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Beautiful Bristol: Colourful painted houses
Recently I’ve been taking advantage of the sunny days to take long walks around different parts of this beautiful city on the hunt for some colourful painted houses, and a full camera roll. These were all just shot with my iPhone and edited with the A Color Story app from A Beautiful Mess – I…
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#2015BestNine
You may have seen your Instagram feed be taken over by #2015bestnine and 3×3 grids of people’s most liked photos. I did it and it was a great reminder of how big of a year this has been for me; I finally went travelling – something I’d been dreaming about since I was 16, moved…