A Birthday in Kalkan, Turkey

I was lucky enough to spend my 27th birthday this year in the company of my wonderful family, boyfriend and 28 degree sunshine – waking up to this view… We spent a week in a small…

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Beautiful Ruins – Book Review

“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”  I fell a little bit in love with a book whilst on my latest holiday to Kalkan in Turkey. It’s pretty much the perfect ‘beach read’,…

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Guernsey – Take Two

Thanks to an annoying bout of island fog, cancelled flights, stand-by sagas in Gatwick and unexploded World War 2 bombs, my weekend visit to Guernsey was certainly not lacking in drama! Who said life was dull…

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The Shepherd’s Return

This weekend, the boy and I headed off to West Sussex for his belated birthday surprise weekend. A lover of all things camping, I wanted to take him on a slightly more ‘special’, birthday-appropriate version…

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A weekend in Windsor

This weekend, the boy and I went to stay with some friends in Berkshire to get away from London and enjoy the sunshine that had been predicted – finally! Overexcited at the thought of some…

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