Four Days Avoiding the Royal Wedding in Hampstead, London

Four Days Avoiding the Royal Wedding in Hampstead, London

*POST UPDATED MARCH 2024. Friends, Boyfriend & I made a boo-boo. We looked at the calendar, randomly selected dates, booked flights and a non-refundable hotel in London. Honestly, we never thought anything more about it until shortly before our departure day, when a well-meaning parent 

A Wander Guide: Barcelona, Spain

A Wander Guide: Barcelona, Spain

*POST UPDATED MARCH 2024. Barcelona. My sister’s favourite place in Europe. A city in which I’d only spent a few fatigued days after finishing the Camino many years ago, and somewhere my mother had never visited. We allotted four days, just long enough to wander 

Four Days in Amsterdam, Holland

Four Days in Amsterdam, Holland

*POST UPDATED MARCH 2024. There’s something magical about Amsterdam. I recently visited the Dutch capital for the second time, and still I have trouble explaining to people what is so captivating about it. I can never quite get across how genuinely crooked all of the 

A Wander Guide: Paris

A Wander Guide: Paris

*POST UPDATED MARCH 2024. Paris owns my heart. It’s the one city that keeps dragging me back time & time again. This past October was my sixth time visiting, and still it amazes me that a city so smooth & polished can at the same 

7 hours in Cork, Ireland

7 hours in Cork, Ireland

*POST UPDATED MARCH 2024. You’re probably thinking, how does one come to spend seven hours in Cork? Well. It takes three hours to drive from Dublin city centre to Cork. It also takes forty minutes to get from where I live into Dublin city centre. 

Eating & Drinking in Edinburgh, Scotland

Eating & Drinking in Edinburgh, Scotland

*POST UPDATED MARCH 2024. Warning: this Eating & Drinking in Edinburgh, Scotland post contains a lot of recommendations about, funnily enough, drinking & eating. It will likely make you hungry, thirsty for a beer, and perhaps intrigue you into looking up flight prices. Read on 

Exploring Copenhagen, Denmark

Exploring Copenhagen, Denmark

*POST UPDATED MARCH 2024. This coming September, I will have known one of my best friends for twelve years. That’s half of my lifetime & a rather impressively long time to still enjoy another’s company. We’ve spent a heck of a lot of time together 

Bremen, Germany

Bremen, Germany

*POST UPDATED MARCH 2024. This might sound weird, but I can remember the exact moment when I decided that I wanted to go to Bremen. I was 17, & I was studying for my final German exam ever. The paper I was studying was about 

Winter Weekend in Westport

Winter Weekend in Westport

*POST UPDATED MARCH 2024. Friends, I have to be honest with you: Westport was never one of the places on my “to-go list”. Why would I want to go to a small town tucked away in the back arse of nowhere? A trip to Westport 

Notting Hill Workshop

Notting Hill Workshop

*POST UPDATED MARCH 2024. The blue door. Meeting the woman who inspired me to begin my own food blog. Eating my heart out. Meeting like-minded new people. Getting to see how actual real food bloggers construct a scene (because obviously I’m not a real one). 

London, UK

London, UK

*POST UPDATED MARCH 2024. Our weekend in London started out a bit differently from pretty much any trip I’d been on before. Boyfriend had told me two days before my birthday that we were flying somewhere & that I’d need to pack a bag for 

Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Guide

Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Guide

*POST UPDATED MARCH 2024. Hello, friends! I’m here today to share a post that is very near and dear to my heart – Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Guide. Along with my friend Karen, I walked the Camino in the summer of 2014,