I worry that wild camping in Yosemite National Park may have doomed my relationship with The Husband. As an avid rock climber, there are few places in the world more magical to him than the towering El Capitan in Yosemite. After extensive research I found a camping spot immediately in front of El ...
CHECK IN: LORD POULETT ARMS, ENGLAND
This lovely Somerset hotel in the adorably named Hinton St George (could a village sound more English?!) will forever have a very special place in my heart… it was where The Husband and I spent our first evening as a married couple! We had planned to go abroad, but with the COVID 19 ...
FOODIE EDINBURGH: A LOCAL’S GUIDE TO THE BEST PLACES TO EAT
I have been very lucky to eat in some seriously swanky restaurants, and try some truly incredible dishes around the world. But there are few times that I feel as happy as in Edinburgh eating a plate of piping hot battered fish and chips drowned in vinegar! Edinburgh is my favourite city in the ...
MUSCAT: A LOCAL EXPAT’S ULTIMATE GUIDE
When most people think of Oman, they think of the desert, the wadis and the souqs. And it certainly has all of those. But beyond the gorgeous mosque, friends and family often have very little impression of what the capital city, Muscat, is like. It has a much slower pace of life than it’s ...
A LOCAL’S GUIDE TO WALKING HADRIAN’S WALL
In 122AD, the Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered the construction of an 84 mile defensive wall between the River Tyne on the east coast of England, to the Solway estuary in the west. It took six years to build the wall, and its forts and milecastles were occupied by military forces until the Romans left ...