I’m 25! And that means if I want to pretend to be a tourist in my hometown, I will! Okay so credit where it’s due: I first spied this route on Secret London. I had it filed away for a not-so-rainy day and my birthday being at the end of August seemed like the perfect […]
Cathedral
‘Adventure’
Travel adventures are the only kind of surprises I like. When I have a day off, there’s nothing I like to hear more than a friend coming up to me and having this conversation: “Emma, how would you like to go on an adventure?!”“I’d love to! Where are we going?”“It’s a surprise!” Which is exactly […]
St Andrews
The day following Edinburgh Zoo, we took the country lanes to get to Fife and St Andrews. We arrived just after noon, having battled against our shared allergies to the swathes of rapeseed we had past. My mum had been given a recommendation to visit The Seafood Restaurant that sits right over the sandy beach […]
Liverpool
Fresh off the plane from Canada, I had but a few days to recover after Christmas before I was squashed into a car and driven to the north. Not quite as far as Stirling (though I’d be making that trip just the following week!). We were off for a festive visit to my grandparents in […]
Ólafur Arnalds at Leicester Cathedral
It’s rare to discover music that perfectly expresses emotion but I found it yesterday seeing my favourite Icelandic composer, Ólafur Arnalds, perform in Leicester Cathedral. Initially I was after tickets in London as I knew I’d be back down south for when Ólafur was on tour but there weren’t any concerts listed. Leicester was the […]