I can’t sit still. I have to have a trip booked to look forward too. I work well with milestones and am fortunate to have friends and family dotted across the world to visit. I’m away on average about every 6 weeks. Here are my planning + booking tips, destination guides and savvy traveller tips.
Go Eurostar often send me offer emails with deals to Paris for £29 each way so my cousin and I took advantage of some free time in our schedules and headed over for two nights last week. I booked to stay at the Mercure Paris Montmartre Sacré Coeur on booking.com because it had a massive % off pretty last minute. What I didn’t realise was that the Sacré Coeur was…
AC is somewhere I’d never been but always wanted to go. I can’t believe I lived in New York for so long and we never got around to a little roadtrip. I’m actually glad I waited to go with Ebony because she knows the city well. We took a spontaneous drive 45 mins out of Philly for one night only to the east coast’s mini Vegas, well at least that’s…
What do you actually know about Philadelphia? It’s where the Fresh Prince was born and raised? Rocky? Meek Mill? or that awful documentary that Louis Theroux made about homicides? Well my best friend happens to be from Philadelphia and I think there’s nothing better than seeing a city through a locals eyes. This was my third visit to her hometown and the longest amount of time I’d spent there. My…
Following my post about Sephora and US drugstore musts, I wanted to mention a couple of brands that are only available online…What’s worth getting delivered before you visit and a way around US domestic only shipping. Kylie Cosmetics. Oh Kylie, you set up a little Shopify website selling your liquid lipsticks made in the same factory as Colourpop for $17. They even come in identical shades. Naturally the world went…
Laura and I have been el desperado to sun seek somewhere other than Ibiza so we decided to book Dubai for our birthdays. Stevie also has a September birthday and was finishing her Masters too and came along!! So just as all the troops start their return to cold, wet and windy England we were booked out of Gatwick on a nice 8 hour flight to the desert. I’ve only…
