When it comes to coffee, I am, I confess, a massive snob. With Aussie and Kiwi coffee shops popping up all over London in the past four years, I have painlessly adapted to the taste of superior coffee and the perfectly produced and delivered flat white – anything else will not do. So it [...]
The plan is to explore Montreal in three days, and at first thought this seems reasonable, but little do I know that Montreal is a complex patchwork of tremendously downplayed treasures.
We begin in Little Italy with a visit to the Jean-Talon Market (read all about it here), once a [...]
A gush of déjà vu rushes over me as I walk out of Marylebone Station, dragging my suitcase behind me; this month three years ago, I moved to London and to a broom cupboard basement flat just steps away from here, one of my favourite London train stations and the grand Victorian hotel that [...]
As someone who spent almost every major school holiday in Yorkshire, I should have visited York at least a handful of times by now and yet my visit earlier this year was my very first – shameful, no? So it was with great enthusiasm and excitement that I accepted an invite from
With the (bad) weather dominating our every day lives here in the UK, we tend to find ourselves looking to escape to places afar and which promise long sunny days, an invitation to don one’s sunglasses and sandals and an excuse to purchase a new swimsuit. Our ongoing feud with the weather is as [...]
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