I have been away from home just shy of five months. I’m now due to head back there in just seven days and it is a time of mixed emotions and feelings. My ravenous anticipation to get home to my family and friends is fiercely opposed by my desire to stay. Apart from the obvious things...Read More
Recently my work has led me to travel widely, meeting many groups and individuals in a corporate context. As I travel I have been considering an important part of the Semple Dress Collection project, ‘the uniform’. We would all probably like to think that we left uniform behind in school; the uncomfortable wool fabrics, the...Read More
Choosing to travel with my boyfriend was an easy decision for me. Why wouldn’t I want to experience all the world has to offer with the person I love most in this world? It was simple for me, I didn’t want to have the experience at all if it wasn’t going to be with him....Read More
Madrid is a city that has the perfect balance of a city life, but manages to keep all the quaint and quintessential aspects of the Spanish people. It does not compromise on this and for that, I love it. I’ve been to Spain before, mostly in my teens and early 20’s and most of it I...Read More
Just 40 short years ago communist leader Pol Pot and his Khmer Rogue army were inflicting their reign of terror and genocide on the people of Cambodia. In just under four years they would wipe out an estimated 1.7 million people, a staggering 21 percent of Cambodia’s population. In the chronicle of 20th century horrors,...Read More
Just when we thought we’d conquered contouring, along come new trends that dominate the beauty pages of every fashion bible on the shelf. It’s costly enough topping up our make-up bags with our everyday essentials, but when new looks arrive it can be hard to know whether we should invest our pennies in new products and...Read More
In 2012 Passenger sang ‘you only hate the road when your missing home’ and in 2015 I can vouch for him on that one. Travelling around from place to place, as frequently as I have been, can be an exhausting experience. As much as you try to seek out the best each place you visit...Read More
Some we commit without really knowing we’re doing it, and others we’re often blissfully unaware that it’s even on the naughty list, but beauty crimes come in all shapes and sizes and do us an injustice that only we ourselves can stop. Whether it comes from picking up bad habits or the age old excuse of...Read More
Having now finished my tour of Indonesia it is clear to me that Ubud is Bali’s cultural hub. Home to the artful and the creative, this serene town really does live up to the hype of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’. Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling memoir told the story of one woman’s search for inner balance and...Read More
In Vietnam there was one trip we knew we just had to do and that was the cruise to Ha Long Bay. Like most people we had the majority of our information about Ha Long from that episode of Top Gear, but that was enough to convince us. So after some extensive research we chose to...Read More
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