I have wanted to visit Barcelona for years, ever since the month I inter-railed around five European countries with two girlfriends on a teeny tiny budget and heard everyone we met in backpackers and hostels along the way tell us, Make sure you go to Barcelona! Alas, we’d pre-booked our flights and Rome was due…
Photo Source The Truman Show is a favourite film of mine. The first time I watched it I was hooked from the opening shots, and crying buckets by the end when Truman took his bow. You know that scene in the film (I’m assuming you’ve seen it at this point but spoiler alert if you…
Home is where the heart is, they say. but this heart is a wanderer a nomad an immigrant always and never at home. Thin white roots stretch their delicate fingers behind me each time I go a spiders web of belonging wrapping up this world in its soft cocoon. I am often leaving but never…
Cold cider sitting on the sunny harbour quay, barbecues in the garden with old friends, pizza dinner in the park with my in-laws, wandering around design stores, wandering the streets outside the centre, being taught to hula-hoop by a four year old, late nights drinking wine and coffee and telling stories… Yey for long weekends…
I will admit I knew next to nothing about Estonia before meeting the wonderful friends who got married there two weeks ago. If asked, I might have guessed the capital to be Riga or just shrugged. In fact, it’s Tallinn, and it has a very beautiful old town, complete with almost intact walls, stunning vistas,…
We loved Helsinki. We added on two days in this Nordic city before our trip to Estonia because our good friends Melanie and Alex were going to be there and it’s only a two hour ferry ride from Tallinn, our final destination. I’d never been before and Rasmus had only had a business trip there…
