I was due to see Florence + the Machine pre-Christmas. Unfortunately, the week that I was due to see the show, Florence broke her foot during the London gig, and the rest of her European tour was postponed. To…
When I was in Reims, one of the things that I wanted to prioritise (other than visiting a vineyard) was visiting some of the champagne houses for a tour. After doing a lot of research, the Ruinart tour –…
I absolutely adore the Musée d’Orsay. It is my favourite museum in Paris – which is a pretty big shout. The architecture of the museum itself is beautiful. The Musee d’Orsay is in an old railway station (Gare d’Orsay).…
Hello! Happy New Year to any readers who are checking in to this post. My break didn’t go exactly as expected – I spent the absolute entirety of it ill. After two rounds of antibiotics, I am only finally…
Something happened in the middle of COVID: I started to break out in lots and lots of little red spots near my nasolabial folds. Call me narcissistic, but it really upset me. And then I felt awful for being…
Listen, let’s not beat around the bush. I am one of those people that adores the Muppet’s Christmas Carol. As a teacher, I genuinely think it’s one of the most textually accurate adaptations out there. Plus it is just…
As a secondary school teacher, I have my 6 weeks off during the summer. This past year, I used my time to do an intensive, 200-hour yoga teacher training. I passed my course in mid-August and I have been…
Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Paris, France (110 acres). With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world. Notable figures in the arts buried at Père Lachaise include Frédéric Chopin, Édith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Marcel Marceau, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, and Sir Richard Wallace. Père…
*** This is a sponsored post; all thoughts and opinions are forever my own.*** I think beanbags get a bad reputation. It might be the association with college dorm rooms or maybe it is just the 1970s retro-feel. But…
Lyveden New Bield is an unfinished Elizabethan summer home near Aldwinkle in Northhamptonshire. Sir Thomas Tresham to symbolise his Catholic faith, Lyveden remains incomplete and virtually unaltered since work stopped on his death in 1605. There are tranquil moats,…