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• Christmas at Buckland Abbey | Devon, UK
  on Dec 20, 2016 in Britain Dartmoor england History National Trust Travel UK Weekend
  Michele and I have officially reached peak middle-aged-ness.Not only do we spend most of our weekends wandering around Dartmoor, we have also recently become the proud owners of National Trust membership (although his card says "Ms Michele" hehehe -...
• A Christmas Reunion | London, UK
  on Dec 18, 2016 in Christmas friends London Travel Weekend Winter
  Having never lived in our capital city, I am thoroughly in love with a dream of London.Growing up on the East Kent coast meant that it was never too far for a weekend day trip with my parents. Particularly around Christmas time, we would head into th...
• Alpine Throwback | Dolomites, Italy
  on Dec 15, 2016 in Dolomites hiking History Italy mountains Nature Travel Walking
  This is the final post in my 2014 Dolomites retrospective. And we're heading into the mountains themselves!Except you're going to have to imagine that they're covered in a soft, white blanket of snow as that is what they most probably look like right...
• Fié allo Sciliar | Dolomites, Italy
  on Dec 11, 2016 in Dolomites hiking Italy mountains Nature Travel
  In Part 2 of the "my camera broke so now I'm using photos from 2014" series, we're going to take a little wander around the pretty town of Fié allo Sciliar (or Völs am Schlern as it's known in German).Fie was to be our home for the week we spent in...
• Memories of Sud Tirol | Dolomites, Italy
  on Dec 8, 2016 in Dolomites Holidays Italy Memories Nature Throwback Travel
  When I mentioned in my last post that my camera had broken upon trying to take pictures of myself, I wasn't joking.Sadly, whenever I turn it on, I am now greeted with a delightful pattern of bright colours that unfortunately do not look like anything...
• Peopletree Online Shopping Review | Life
  on Dec 1, 2016 in Ethical Ethical Living Lifestyle Online shopping review Shopping
  Before I start, I need to get one thing straight.I suck at taking pictures of myself. Each time I try a phone selfie, I see the thumb staring back at me, scream, and turn the camera off. The same pretty much happened when I tried to take picture...
• Hiking the Resegone
  on Aug 27, 2016 in hiking Italy Lombardy Milan mountains Nature Resegone Travel
  The Resegone di Lecco is a mountain with a serrated peak that resembles a saw. It is from this peak that the mountain takes its name; Resegon means "great saw" in the local dialect.It appears in Italian art and literature and anyone who has studied t...
• An evening at Nottingham Forest - and the aftermath
  on Aug 16, 2016 in bars city Italy Milan Must See nightlife
  One of the biggest differences between English and Italian cocktails is the alcohol content. In the UK, shots are poured into miserly measuring glasses before then being tipped into the glass, meaning that quite often half of your drink is left in a...
• Gallerie d'Italia, Milano
  on Aug 9, 2016 in art city Italy Milan Travel
  On the other end of the spectrum from Fondazione Prada, sits Gallerie d'Italia. I've written about this art gallery before but as much as it deserves a revisit in life, as does it deserve a revisit in words.It used to be free entry but now costs €5...
• 24 Hours in Milan - How to see (almost) everything
  on Jul 30, 2016 in city guide Italia Italy Milan Milano Travel
  Whenever I go back to Milan, I always want to cram as much as is humanly possible into each day. This intensifies significantly when friends come to visit. I essentially want them to fall in love with the city in the space of a few days as much as I...

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