This time last year I was lying on a beach in Sri Lanka! This year, things are slightly different as I bundle up in my ski jacket, hat and gloves to do the school…
Have you ever visited somewhere and found you’ve lost a bit of your travel sparkle? It could be somewhere deliciously beautiful but for some reason you are not feeling it. I’ll put…
There are so many places I want to go in the world. Where do I start? Well, to break it down a little, I have decided to set out my travel wishlist for 2017. I’ll…
It decided to rain, all day, on my birthday. But not even a slightly dreary London could dampen my day which saw a bit of culture at the Tate Modern, some good food,…
If you had the option to have a day out in London, what would you do? This was the question I posed on my Facebook page last week. I was looking for some…
If you follow my Instagram or Facebook feeds, you can’t help but have noticed we’ve been in the Alps! It was a refreshing break and meant that our eldest daughter got to…
It has been back to real life for me this week as we left the mountains and returned to the UK. Last week the Alps got some much-needed snow but all we seem…
Mustard. That’s what springs to mind when I think of Dijon. How about you? As we were to discover though, Dijon brings far more to the table than a spicy condiment. In fact…
Globally, 2016 threw up plenty of shocks and surprises and we said farewell to far too many icons taken too soon. For my little family, it has been an eventful but good…
Happy new year! I hope you all had a great time welcoming in 2017. Warm wishes from the French Alps where we are currently enjoying the unseasonably sunny skies and bare mountain…
As a fan of fizz, one of the top places to stop off during a road trip in France, is the capital of champagne, Epernay. It is also a halfway point for…
Learning to ski has come a long way since I was a child. Back then it was a trip to a dry ski slope. I went to our local one, just once, in…