So my tickets for Rio 2016 have arrived…it is all getting suddenly real as there are now only 2 weeks until I travel to Brazil to watch to the Olympics!!! The arrival of my Olympic tickets just brought back a flood of happy memories and experiences as the buzz in London was insatiable during that … More My Olympic Experience, My London 2012
So last weekend I was in the ickle village of Ilkley in West Yorkshire staying at the gorgeous Grade II listed country house Westwood Lodge for a hen do. The house situated on the edge of the Ilkley Moor with such beautiful picturesque views was the perfect setting for a bunch of girls ready to … More Chocolate Making in Yorkshire
Every year on Good Friday, Wintershall Charitable Trust perform the open air play, The Passion of Jesus in London Trafalgar Square, telling the Easter story of Jesus’ last days, his crucifixion and his resurrection. I have wanted to go see this for a number of years but usually I have been away on holiday or … More The Easter Message
No one mourns the Wicked. The irony is everyone is mourned by someone, even ‘The Wicked!’ When asked by my friend if I wanted to see this earlier in the year, despite having already seen it many years ago, my response was a resounding yes! I had enjoyed it so much the first time, read … More Wicked
Spring is upon us so I best tell you all about Oxford, a beautiful UK city that is splendid, especially in the Spring and Summer months. (Sorry for my hiatus I had an impending all consuming exam to sit) I moved to Oxford in the summer of 2010 with no family, no friends, no significant other, … More What Oxford Taught Me…
Seeing London in a whole new light. For my birthday this year I wanted to do something: different fun and that involved minimal organisation on my part Lumiere London was a perfect answer to all of those things and it was FREE! It was a light festival held over four days that saw iconic architecture … More My Illuminating Birthday with Lumiere London
Once upon a time…….. As begins all fairy tale stories and Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is no different in its beginning but there it ends. This Sleeping Beauty is a gothic romance spanning well over 100 years as it moves through the Victorian era to the Edwardian era and then into our present day. With music … More Ballet with Bourne
What a year 2015 has been in terms of travel both UK based and abroad. I am yet to share all my experiences with you about them given the fact this blog has only just begun. I look forward to sharing my time in each place on my blog intermingled with new travel tales of … More 2015: Travels in Review
Christmas abroad – it just doesn’t sound right, right? When I think of Christmas I always have images of it being at home in my house in Newcastle experiencing all the usual trimmings, driving home for Christmas over the Tyne bridge, going to see the Fenwicks Christmas window displays, my dad playing Santa at church … More Christmas Abroad
‘Liberty is our right to question everything.’ As soon as I had seen adverts on the tube for this exhibition I knew I wanted to get myself down to the Royal Academy of Art to check out Ai Weiwei’s evocative and politically charged work. Ai Weiwei is an artist in which he infuses his Chinese … More Ai Weiwei Exhibition
