I had never really thought of Lake Garda and Verona as big places on my travel “to do” list, but MB insisted we get out of London one weekend in early November. It’s been about a year since I was last in Italy (S. and I took a trip to Sicily in November 2015), and …
I have already been to Portugal, but of course, you can never be somewhere more than once! When my mother said she wanted to go to Madeira for her 60th birthday, I obviously knew I had to show her a good time. Being budget conscious, I looked outside of the tourist side of town for …
Your mother only turns 60 once. I asked told my mother I’d take her anywhere in the world for her birthday. After Googling places with terracotta roofs, she decided on Funchal, Madeira, in Portugal. Madeira is a tiny island off the coast of northern Africa, in the Atlantic. It is absolutely gorgeous. From the moment …
One of the (many) things I like about living in Europe is how accessible things are. Want to go to Italy? You can be there in just a little over two or three hours. Belgium? Hop on a Eurostar and get there in 45 minutes! But the bummer is always having to come up with …
Last weekend, I was invited to go to the Babington House for the night. I was pretty excited. I’d read loads of good things, so I threw a few things in a weekend bag and went. Babington is pretty “far out there,” tucked away in the English countryside near a town called Frome. The closest …
In keeping with exploring more of France than Paris, I made plans many moons ago to visit Cannes. S. was obviously required to come along, but we were joined by my old childhood friend, C., for a bank holiday weekend of beaches, sun, French food, wine and, of course, practicing our French. We left St …
I need to blog more, as I’ve mentioned, about the things I do about England rather than just focusing on my travels abroad. Because in all fairness, there’s some pretty awesome stuff going on around this “tiny little island,” as a flatmate of mine once called it. One of the coolest things I’ve done recently …
My last few days in Santorini were quite active. The day after climbing the stairs from Amoudi to Oia, I rested from the intense heat of the day in preparation for an evening hike from Oia to Fira. The hike is about 18 km and takes three hours, although A., P. and I made it …
The only morning that MB and I were joined in waking early, we had a mission: a boat tour around the island and caldera. At 9:20am (well, the bus was 10 minutes late, running on Greek time, of course!) we were picked up by a tour bus and brought to the port of Amoudi, located …
Most days in Santorini, MB and I were up quite early, although everyone else slept in. We’d make the short walk to Oia to beat the tourist crowds, enjoy the view of the caldera and take loads of photos. Along the way, we’d have a cheeky freddo cappuccino, one of my new culinary discoveries I …