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A Trip to The States Part 1: Hello San Fran!
Today is gloomy; the fog peppers the pockets of blue sky and promise. I don’t mind, it reminds me of San Francisco. I have just been to The States on a trip that I thought would never come to fruition....
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A Trip to The States Part 2: Wassup NYC!
I flew to JKF and was picked up by a Jamaican driver named Fitzroy. True to form, he was hard to understand over the loud radio, traffic, his quiet voice and accent mon. The old school paper GPS wasn’t...
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A Trip to The States Part 3: Hey San Fran, I Missed Y’all!
Sleep is overrated… especially when one gets home late, tries to downsize while packing and gets an airport pick-up at 3am. Olive’s alarm bark worked a treat. This driver was a Chatty Cathy, but he...
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Stuff I Have Learnt in Ireland
Week 2 is proving to be an exercise in how many times can you get the wheels to fall off in a week… but I am in the Emerald Isle, so let’s just blame the leprechauns! Anywhere I have been in the world,...
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My Tribute to New York
I just found my diary from my July trip to NYC with illegible scribblings; it kinda looks like a doctor’s prescription pad. I think I tried to be tidy to begin with, but I just got caught up in a...
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Stuff I Thought I’d Never do – When an Opportunity Comes a-Knockin’
As my knickers sharply reminded me that I was wearing the wrong ones, I stopped to think for a moment and catch my breath. There I was standing on the touch field near the end of a back to back no subs...
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Little Everyday Stuff that is Awesome
Sometimes it feels a bit like a wake up rinse and repeat kinda life; like Bill Murray is actually you, in Groundhog Day. I’m not a fan of sausage factory life and I don’t like getting sucked into a...
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My Secret Shames – The Alter-Ego Speaks
Oh banana splits, I’ve decided to lift the lid on my secret shames, my guilty pleasures, my isms that make me flip flop flism! Embarrassing, I know. I think my life is generally embarrassing sometimes,...
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I Should not be in Charge of Feeding Myself
I’ve decided that sometimes I am a disgusting creature. Yesterday I went to the supermarket on an empty stomach (at dinner time), and with a craving for a small pottle of chocolate mousse. I came back...
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Stuff I Love About Winter
Winter… the days seem darker, the nights are cold and that chill can whip right through to your bones and make you want walk around in an electric blanket suit. I’m not the biggest fan of freezing, or...
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Stuff I Have Learnt this Week
I’ve been cooking from a delicious cookbook that was given to me by my sis. Hello fricken awesome dishes! Ravinder Bhogal’s Cook in Boots of epic page induced eating proportions has this week yielded...
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Ciao Italia! – Part 1
My excitement for being in Italia was overshadowed by nerves of a potential new job and for the first time in a very long time, being alone in a foreign speaking country. After the crazy day of travel,...
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Ciao Italia! – Part 6
Once again, I was feeling under the weather. But at times of feeling rubbish it’s sometimes when I surprise myself the most. I managed to find a health shop within the small shopping streets of Varazze...
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Busses, Burley and Bournemouth
Edinburgh to London was my first overnight bus journey. The coach was full and the loo paper roll was empty. I was fortunate enough to be sitting next to a lovely young scientist, who sounded like she...
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A Moment in Valencia
Valencia is one of those understated, cool-hip places, that you least expect; like when you find out that your grandmother organised a boxing match in her 1930’s nurse’s lounge. I have a lot of respect...
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The Swiss Food that I Miss
I have just been perusing my travel diary, flicking through the pages and wondering what part of my Swiss adventure that I’ll blog about next. The beard festival, Heidiland, my trip to Lake Como…?...
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A Lake Como Retreat
My accounts of my month as a ‘Swiss Miss’ have nearly come to an end. But before I bid farewell to the home of the creamiest butter and tastiest water, I have to divulge my mini-vacay to Italia. My...
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