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Themed Travel Packing for Every Occasion
Levi cutoffs and cowboy boots for the Wild West; Bretton stripes, red lipstick and pointed ballet flats for Paris; glitter and faux fur ballleros for New York; leather jackets and lace cami’s for London; and Dolce Vita-ready nipped in waist dresses for Florence. I am a huge outfit planner dependent on where I am or…
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24 Hours in The Wicklow Mountains
P.S. I love you… It was a cold and extremely wet day at the beginning of November. The sun was weak in the sky when present, as if it was struggling against the animosity of the clouds that had be threatening freezing for days. Four friends boarded a bus bounded for the Wicklow Mountains from…
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Sunday Morning Croissant Reading #1
This little series is inspire by Monica over at Elgin Avenue, and her weekly email of notable reading material. Although Croissant Reading isn’t a new concept at all, I love a good Sunday morning in bed with a pot of coffee and some flaky pastries, catching up on all the reading in the news,…
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Living Danishly – How to Hygge
Another year and another happiness obsession. Last year its was the Japanese art of tidying, this year its Hygge, the danish concept of gaining pleasure from the simplicity in life. As a society, especially an internet one, we are pretty obsessed with the Scandinavian way of living, from Ikea to style minimalism. But Hygge seems pretty obvious…
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Why I Want to Adopt
To date, one of the most flooring experiences of my life was when I spent 10 weeks teaching in a tiny backyard school in the dusty town of Arusha, Tanzania. Volunteering in a country totally alien to your own, a world apart from everything you know and take for granted, is tough. Weeks of no running water, days…
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The Trump Card; beating the system.
There’s been a lot written about Donald Trump of late. So much negativity has followed his rise to unbelievable power. His inauguration preceded the biggest mass protests, market uncertainty and global terror in the modern age and we are all living with disbelief and skepticism over his presidential term. His speech is vile and hateful, and…
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Sunday Lunch – 5 of the Best Pubs in Norfolk.
Norfolk is a somewhat forgotten county of England, who’s people would deplore me for saying so, while remaining fiercely proud of the fact. For me, Norfolk is a home away from home where my family herald from and still reside. As such, being the big drinkers and eaters my family is, I can safely say…
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Une Grande Affaire to Remember
The first time I went to Paris was a youthful summer a long time ago. I had just finished a 6 month study abroad program in the Alpine city of Grenoble and I was desperate to visit the city that had sparked my lifetime long obsession with France and french culture. The next time was…
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Reykjavik Dreaming …
When I landed in Reykjavik, I honestly thought that nowhere could resemble the moon more. I arrived in mid January, when the sun barely rose above the horizon and the whole of Iceland was in a semi darkness. The daylight hours were short with first light at 11:30 am and then disappearing a mere 4…
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What I’m Reading: The Cooking Book Edition
I love a good cookbook, boy do I! There is something inspiring and beautiful about clean laid out pages with perfectly lit images of food. I think it’s my OCD and perfectionism talking. I am having even more of a moment with recipe books right now thanks to these three heroes of food heaven. Each…