Chateau de la Hulpe

This is a post I actually wrote before our holiday but then with all the packing and planning, I never got around to uploading the photos and publishing it. And then I couldn’t find the photos I had uploaded… But it was a great day with an awesome person so I’m just posting it now…

26 things to do before I turn 27…

I started writing this list the week before my 26th birthday. I was feeling like I was getting lazy, starting to lack focus. I’d get home from work and wonder what to do with my evenings. I wish for a lot of things and have so many ideas but then I forget them the next…

shepherd’s pie with a twist…

We had this for dinner last night. Yes, I know it’s not meatless but we’ve been quite well behaved recently and I really wanted to make this! That’s not my picture though, it’s the one from the BBC Good Food website. Because it was so yummy and we were so hungry that it literally got…

pinterest

When I was in my final year of school, studying for A-levels and trying to figure out what I would “do” for the rest of my life (wow, that feels like such a long time ago, and I’ve still not figured out the answer!) I was deciding in my 17/18 year old mind between interior…

Wine tasting in Santa Ynez

If you’re getting jealous tired of all the holiday posts, don’t worry, this is the last one! We spent our second last day of our holiday driving over the mountains from Santa Barbara in the Santa Ynez valley, which is a big but quite young wine-making region. It’s such a beautiful area – you drive…

whales

We went whale watching off the coast of Santa Barbara And saw humpbacks and fin whales! And in my head the whole time was that clip from Finding Nemo where Dory thinks she can speak whale…