MY TODDLER-IN-TOW BUCKET LIST
My bucket list for my toddler is about adventures and experiences. Sure, I can't wait to show him the world but to experience new things.
View PostWISH UPON A 2021 STAR
What do you wish for in 2021? Normally I write a travel wish list of sorts, but this year it's a wish for simple things I've missed in 2020.
View PostHOME – A LOCKDOWN RENOVATION SPECIAL
Oh how we laughed through our renovations. We didn’t. No: kitchen/oven/sink; dining out; trips away. A global pandemic & national lockdown...
View PostTHE POST-COVID FAMILY HOTEL DREAM
Staying in a hotel again does feel like a dream right now! I've created my dream hotel from the places we've loved on our travels. I really loved writing this, we've been lucky to stay in some amazing places and when the time is right I can't wait to start showing Little P the world again!
View PostWHAT WILL TRAVEL LOOK LIKE?
Joining the travel link up again this month to think about what travel looks like now. For me it's about the day trip and reducing our risk of exposure.
View PostAT HOME IN LOCKDOWN
At home in lockdown - without a kitchen, full time parenting and working, but thankfully with a stunning spring and a lovely bit of Hampshire to call home
View Post2020 TRAVEL WISHES
I used to start the year with a bucket list, of places I wanted to tick off visiting. But I’ve gone off that idea over the last few years. People would say, oh away again, and for whatever reason it was we wanted or needed to be away again, they had a point!…
View PostADAPT & THRIVE IN TRAVEL
My travel superpower is an ability to adapt & thrive. Being able to adapt is essential: for life, work and travel. I’ve such happy & varied travel memories!
View PostSPARKS OF TRAVEL JOY
There’s plenty of joy in life without travel, thankfully. But there’s something about travel, or an adventure, that really sparks joy in me. Travelling less now that we have a little one, I have pondered what sparks joy for me in a trip. Champagne, especially the first sip that says ‘we are on…
View PostA ROMANTIC FAMILY HOLIDAY VISION
‘Romantic’ in the Oxford Dictionary is ‘characterised by, or suggestion of, an idealised view of reality’… This week we have a little trip to the sandy shores of Abu Dhabi… I have a romantic vision of our time off together: relaxing and fun, rather than just memorable! Baby won’t know where he is…
View PostA MARK IN THE SAND: HOTEL WISH LIST
A hotel or few as a mark in the sand. We might not go to any of these any time soon but it’s a set of pretty pictures and a wish list of sorts.
View PostOH BABY IT’S A WILD WORLD – MY TRAVEL WISHES
Oh baby it’s a wild world 🎶 For many reasons, but lets focus on the adventures. Here’s the things I wish for my baby from travel based on the life skills I take from it. To travel Just having the opportunity to see the world in the first place is something special. Not taking…
View PostTAKE AWAYS FROM TRAVEL
When you suddenly don’t travel as much as you did, you realise what you love about it. That said, I’m happy with the reason why I can count on just two hands how many flights I have taken in the last 6 months and the fact that we can’t really book any more…
View PostPACKING LIGHT – MY TRAVEL LUXURY
My travel luxury comes from packing lightly. My husband may well laugh as I have been known to take an umbrella and multiple jumpers on a desert holiday. You can’t be too careful just in case, you know, it is like the UK winter while you’re there… But over the years I’ve done…
View PostP&P RECOMMENDED: OUR HOTEL DIRECTORY
It is fair to say I can be fussy when it comes to choosing a hotel. Which does mean if we have stayed somewhere we liked, then it comes recommended! Way back in 2015 there was a travel link-up theme about places we can’t get out of our head. In 2015 I picked 6…
View Post10 BITS OF BALANCED HOLIDAY WELLNESS
What’s the furthest one could get from a wellness break? Probably one of those Brits abroad boozy night clubbing holidays that make me shudder! Not for me! That said, I am pretty sure each and every sailing regatta is in its own way just as bad. They just begin more elegantly! The times I have…
View PostTRAVEL MEMORIES TO LAST A LIFETIME
If you are like me, then it’s the pinch me moments and memories you remember most fondly. You know, the memories that made something or somewhere special and once in a lifetime. Obviously there’s the life stuff – like finding someone brave enough to marry me 😘. The big stuff – like last summer when…
View Post2018 TRAVEL PLANS AND A NEW YEAR REQUEST
My 2018 travel plans are non-existent. Yes, you read that right. The Anna-planner has no travel plans for the new year. It’s the same way we started 2017. And we liked that so much we’ve taken the same approach again to this new year. Having no real plans has given me time to think…
View PostCHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVITIES
This Christmas is our first in our new home. I cannot begin to explain how excited we are. I would love it to snow, but perhaps that’s a tad optimistic! We have a ‘Christmas on the farm’ advent calendar from Playmobil to celebrate country life! And all the various village events are in…
View PostThe journey: enjoy the A to B
The journey is as important as the destination! Although perhaps getting up at 6am 5 days a week isn’t the best example of such a journey! Why is it so tough? Despite all the practice. Yet set the alarm for 5am to go on holiday and we leap out of bed before it…
View PostMe and my: travel companions
We all have them. Our unflinchingly supportive travel companions! Going everywhere with us, putting up with endless traipsing around… Cardigan, scarf, umbrella and lactofree milk portions… It isn’t just me is it (awkward silence…)? Because travel has so many different types I had a think about what travel companions are steadfastly with me…
View Post10 things: to eat in London
My travel style is discreet and homely. It follows that my food taste would be similar. Working in London, on and off for ten years and more solidly over the last theee, has been a fun foodie discovery. There is such a choice and something for all tastes. Hidden amongst the big brand…
View PostTravel fears and scares
[parallax-scroll id=”6421″] What scares you when you travel they asked? It would have been easier to ask what doesn’t… But that wouldn’t make much of a blog post! Most things can worry or scare me! At home I hate the dark and being home alone. I sail yet I hate the water! I…
View PostOnce upon a time: my travel story
Once upon a time in a quiet bit of Surrey a little girl was busy making scrapbooks of her family travels… Which progressed to photo montages (cringe) and then photobooks… And now she has her own little bit of the www for grown up scrapbooks of her travels… Cute! In case you haven’t noticed,…
View PostHome to me is more than a set of bricks
Home to me isn’t just a set of bricks. On day 1 it may well just feel like a house… But it becomes a home sweet home, a nest, somewhere secure and a place of sanctuary! My lovely home as it is… I love our home. We have been here over ten years and…
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