I Hear Bali Calling….

March 17, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

It has been a pretty hectic few months and one thing that has kept me pushing forward is our trip to Bali ,which I can happily say is getting closer and closer. In three weeks time, I will be lying on Bingin Beach, sipping from a fresh coconut with a book and a Wes…. A […]

The Girl In The Polka Dot Dress

February 24, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

Having had a slight NO shopping rule, through the New Year and actually sticking to one of my New Years Resolutions, this beautiful, bright, polka dot Tea dress jumped right out at me in Topshop, I swear she sang out my name from the hanger in the Norwich store. Now this dress really is all things […]

La Bonne Vie

February 16, 2017.Reading time 14 minutes.

Having very excitingly just booked in some family time in the South of France for late summer, (I’d like to say I made the decision quick on this but all credit goes to my super organised sister) it took me straight back to a couple of summers ago when I spent some time in Rural […]

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions…

January 18, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

I can come up with Travel Bucket Lists as long as my arm, all day every day. This year when I was pondering all the places I would love to visit, which you may have read here, I happily whiled away a good hour, an afternoon, a day , even a week and curated the […]

Beside The Seaside-Whistable

January 12, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

So by the end of the first week of January I had quite simply broken nearly all the resolutions I had quietly made, felt completely uninspired and not particularly motivated. Screw New Years Eve being a let down, the first days of January can most definitely be, the festivities are over and it’s just very, […]

Bucket List 2017

January 4, 2017.Reading time 12 minutes.

There is never a time of the year, week or day I am not thinking about the next trip, getaway or adventure but January, well January I go straight to 10 on the Ritchascale of Bucket Lists. I add, I take away, I reflect, I spend hours looking at websites working out where we could […]

2016 Travels : Down Memory Lane

December 29, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

2017 Wow! How can that be? A quick glance of the date ‘2017’ and it feels like it should be somewhere way into the future, way passed Marty McFly and all things futuristic, not at all the impending now. It is crazy and cliche but time does goes so fast, weeks and months can […]

Christmas Traditions- Scarfes Bar, The Rosewood Hotel, London.

December 20, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

For the past, I want to say fifteen years and more (nearly chokes) my cousin and I have had a little tradition of a Christmas night out. Now this has covered a whole raft of evenings, from our early 20’s with drunken nights full of jugs of Sangria and as much Tapas as we could […]

Escape to Christmas -The Crown Inn Amersham.

December 13, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

As if December wasn’t indulgent enough, well the latter part of the month, Wes and I decided to escape for a night to the beautiful Crown In Amersham. Having had a chaotic work schedule for the past few months, we thought a night away to just catch up with each other before ‘crazy’ hits, was […]

Our Last days in Sri Lanka-Galle Fort, Unawatuna and the Frangipani Tree.

December 9, 2016.Reading time 12 minutes.

Our last few days in Sri Lanka were spent at the Frangipani Tree on the South Coast of the country. The hotel was based about a twenty minute tuk tuk ride to the world Heritage Sight of Galle, five-ten minutes to the beaches of Unawatuna and of course a five second stroll to that amazing pool […]