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The relentless rain propels me along the effusive and charming, cobbled stoned Monmouth Street in London’s Covent Garden, challenging me to escape it. Despite the weather, eager shoppers move insouciantly from shop to shop, a far cry from the stress inducing, disgruntled traffic of Oxford Street. A door opens and I’m greeted with a [...]
In an unassuming canal-side town-house, a short meander from the delightful Nine Streets and central Dam area, resides the Tassenmuseum Hendrijke or the Museum of Bags and Purses; the largest collection of bags and purses in the world, ranging from bags and purses of the Middle Ages through to the dynamic and [...]
We began day two in Bologna with breakfast at our apartment, before piling into a bus, which would deliver us to a day, filled with adventure. Our first stop brought us to the nearby city of Reggio Emilia and an exploration of the area [...]
5am one May morning, fellow bloggers Katie Antoniou, Frankie Murray and I, found ourselves on a train from Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport. We were travelling at an ungodly hour to conquer the foodie capital of Italy, Bologna. We were starved of sleep and breakfast seemed much too far away but my [...]
The rain drummed the song of a thousand crowbirds and woodpeckers on the roof of the taxi, as it crawled through the raucous Parisian traffic, making its way to the hotel. I was sure the taxi driver was driving me around in circles, for it had been at least half an hour since [...]
