Following a glorious autumn and the mildest winter in living history, Londoners could be mistaken for believing our luck was in with an early spring in February and March. Alas, it was not to b...
The Thomas Cook Games Break competition ended today at 6pm and after painstakingly listing and numbering the participants and selecting a random winner via random.org, I can announce that we have a w...
February was such a busy month with so much to blog about that I hope you won’t mind if I take you back to an icy Saturday morning four weeks ago. It was the day before the snow finally came to...
Following the beautiful blue skies and sunshine of the past weekend, I was really convinced that spring was finally here but alas, it is cold and rainy again and it seems that there is no end in sigh...
The challenge: I needed to get to Tower Bridge Millennium Pier by 5am this morning for a London at Dawn photo walk. In order to do this, I would need to leave home at approximately 4am and ther...
The challenge is simple. You meet up an hour before sunrise with the London at Dawn team consisting of photographer Anthony Epes and black cab driver and certified tour guide Nick Mortimer....
There is little doubt that Olympic 2012 fever has reached London but how hard was it to get tickets? I know a handful of people who got some incredible tickets (including one to the opening cer...
My new walk to work is ever so exciting. I get off the train a stop early at Waterloo East and then take any of a number of routes across the Thames to our offices near Charing Cro...
I like the way this photo turned out. It was taken outside the Frauenkirche in Munich, looking out on to Frauenplatz (translated as Women’s Space). I didn’t really know where else to put ...
It has been such an exciting couple of months in London that I haven’t dedicated much time to my other travels lately. I thought it would be the perfect day to visit the town of Aberfeldy in Pe...
The Munich Frauenkirche is one of the most iconic landmarks in Munich, known especially for its unique Renaissance-style domes. This magnificent red brick building was built in the late 15th ce...
Back in 2003, Kevin and Jayne Ramage discovered a derelict mill in Aberfeldy in the Scottish Highlands. So enchanted were they by this listed building that they went on to open The Watermill, a...
It might seem decadent to spend a weekend in another country but that is exactly what we did last weekend. We left after work on the Friday evening and returned on the Sunday night, spending almost a...
28 March 2002. Today is our tenth wedding anniversary. I’m finally starting to believe that we’ve been together for so long because I’m finding it increasingly difficult to remember a time befo...
On Sunday morning I was up bright and early to meet up with friends Melizza, Greg, Sara and Chris for a walk around Highgate, Muswell Hill and Alexandra Palace. We all met up at Highgate tube s...
The Olympics Aquatics Centre No list of “things to do in London this summer” will be complete this year without mentioning a trip to the Olympics. Now I know most people are playing it co...
The best aspect of living in London is the secret passages and historical gems you will discover amongst modern structures of chrome and steel. On this occasion I knew exactly where I was going...
After lunch last Saturday afternoon, Greg, Mela, Jen, Melissa and I went through to the British Museum. It feels almost criminal to admit this but I think it has been over three years since I l...
As you no doubt know, 2012 is a Leap Year and we all know what that means. Tradition states that on the 29th of February the usual rules of courtship are reversed and a lady might freely propos...
I could not believe my eyes when I saw this photo on my friend Maja’s Facebook page. I could see the chunks of ice in the foreground and wondered where on earth this could be. Then I noti...
Centre PointCatch a tube from Tottenham Court Road to Charing Cross? You could walk that! So said Mela and Greg but I scoffed at the suggestion of walking. It was cold and dark outside and besi...
Happy Valentine’s Day! Or, as we like to say in South Africa, Happy Wellington’s Day* I caught these two models in a City of London alley last Saturday morning. It was freezing as it was ...
Throughout our exploration of The Ruins of the Abbey of St Edmund, we could see St Edmundsbury Cathedral in the near distance. Like the houses I showed you at the end of the post on the ruins, ...
So, the long anticipated English winter finally arrived this week. On Tuesday, we experienced our first sub-zero temperatures and although we had some stunning blue skies this week, it was really col...
When I arrived at Charing Cross on Saturday morning, I had an hour to kill before the meet up at Ping Pong. I decided to walk from Charing Cross station to Goodge Street and walked past Trafalg...
Yesterday afternoon, I met up with a lovely group of expats and bloggers at the Ping Pong Dim Sum restaurant in Goodge Street. There were just eight of us including Greg and Mela from Sifting T...
Stephen and I spent a day at the Natural History Museum on Tuesday with my friend Bonny and her son Matthew. We haven’t seen each other in months so I decided to lea...
Exploring castles is hard work and we had explored both Beaumaris and Caernarfon castles in one day! We took the scenic route back from Caernarfon to Betws-y-Coed and decided to take a rest at ...
The Abbey of St Edmund was not a just building but almost a town in itself. The ruins lie sprawling over a massive area and you can see the remains of not only the church but also of the infirm...
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