Grand Hôtel Stockholm

There is something wonderful about a hotel where they value you as a customer, where the staff come up to see how you’ve been since your last visit and makes you feel at home, and Grand Hôtel in...

Happy Birthday To Me!

Here are the pictures from my birthday, which was really wonderful! My boyfriend woke me up (I was pretend-sleeping of course, and had in fact already done my make-up while he was out buying...

The Year I Was 26 – Part Two

Here is the second part of my little summary of last year… In the summer we went out at sea in my stepdads boat several times, always with Nosey the dog sleeping on my lap on the way, to find a...

The Year I Was 26 – Part One

I am a big fan of summaries and lists. Every year around my birthday I make a summary of the year that has passed, as I have done since I was 13, and it is always fun to look back through my...

Christmas In Piccadilly

I can’t believe Christmas Eve is just a few days away. I feel like I just moved to London, the time has just flown by these past 3 months. I like to do most of my Christmas shopping online as the...

Holland Park

Here are a few more pictures from the beautiful Holland Park, I posted images from their amazing Kyoto Garden a couple of weeks ago. There are so many different areas in Holland Park, always...

Tom Aikens Restaurant

I was delighted when I found out that Tom Aikens Restaurant is re-opening after being extensively refurbished on the 12th of January next year (2 days before my birthday – just sayin’). Tom’s...

Advent

Be warned, I am absolutely in love with Christmas and all the preparations that go along with it. I am pleased to come from a country where the celebrations start every year on the first of Advent,...

The Kyoto Garden

Tea And Sandwiches At Blakes

If you feel like escaping London for a minute or two, going for a cup of fresh ginger tea and a box of sandwiches at Blakes Hotel is a very good idea. Here, you are transported to an oriental haven...

The Wallace Collection

A wonderful collection of paintings and objects d’art, and a restaurant with great ambience AND good food – I needn’t give more reasons why this is one of my favourite places in London, now do I? I...

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My thoughts are with the people of Thailand after all their recent hardships with the floods. Here are a few of my photographs from the wonderful capital city, Bangkok. Related Posts

Places I’d Rather Be…

Sunset drinks on Koh Phangan with my parents and my boyfriend during our month-long trip to Thailand. Right now it is that exact time of year when things are a little bit… well not too much fun....

Frost, Family and Furry Friends

I am flying off on a visit to the Swedish countryside for the weekend! I miss my family, including Molle the cat and Nosey the dog. I can’t wait to go for long walks in the country, breathing...

Perfume and Cocktails

Imagine a hotel bar, and add on that the hotel is a part of a chain, and throw into the mix that the website of it is pretty boring and that not all the pictures show in my browser. My hopes were...

Big Brother & Best Friend

This post came about from me playing Super Mario online, and that is no coincidence. My brother and I used to play video games together almost every day for years, in the beginning it was mostly me...

Les Trois Garçons

For me to go to East London there has to be a good reason, and the beautiful restaurant Les Trois Garçons, is just that. The interiors are daring, and perhaps what it would look like if some french...

Autumn Walk In The Sun

One of my favourite things about our house is that it is so close to Kensington Gardens, and that on a Saturday we can walk through there and Hyde Park, and end up in Knightsbridge. I love seeing...

Indian Summer

The last few weeks of summery warmth have been so wonderful, but now it is definitely Autumn and I am lying in bed with a horrendous cold. I have finished decorating our flat, we have had our...

Mount Street Gardens

If you ever find yourself needing a little rest and greenery in Mayfair, the Mount Street Gardens is the perfect place to go. Bring a coffee and rest your weary bones on one of the many benches,...

Bread Street Kitchen

As soon as I saw that Gordon Ramsey was opening a new restaurant, I knew I had to go; I am a big fan of his, and an even bigger fan of good food. Bread Street Kitchen is close to St. Paul’s...

The Scent Hotel

On the exotic Island of Koh Samui in Thailand, on Bangrak Beach, there is a little gem of a hotel which is one of the sweetest I’ve ever visited. It used to be called Karmakamet, the same as the...

Cookies for Friends

I really love being surrounded by friends and loved ones, to sit down together with cups of tea and, preferably, some baked goods alongside. There is something soothing about baking, perhaps the...

The Importance of Good Company

This weekend was a lovely one. Saturday consisted of a long breakfast with my new obsession (and my ongoing obsession – my fiancé), scrambled egg whites with avocado and toast with the gorgeous...

Woof!

In my family, we have always had dogs. I can remember snuggling up to them when I was tiny and as I have recently been going through all of our old family pictures, I noticed there is a dog in...

New Kind of Neighbourhood

My first week in London has come to an end, and it has been a pretty busy one, filled with carrying furniture and decoration of my little flat, but it is coming together now. When my new abode has...

Fashion’s Night Out

Photo booths, roller discos, cocktails, ice-cream, blow-drys, manicures and make-overs, and plenty of champagne – I couldn’t have picked a better time to move to London! I have no idea how I will...

Cocktails in Paris

Having just moved to London, my days are filled with chasing down bedlinen and crockery and things like that; I have no permanent internet connection yet, but I still wanted to mention Le Bar du...

Au Revoir

Tomorrow I will be moving to London after a couple of years here in the Swedish Countryside, which have been wonderful. I have been able to study plenty and finish my degree, travel more than I...

Circa 1905

Going through my family pictures I found these old photographic plates, thick and solid, with the studio’s name written so beautifully on the back. I have not been able to find the exact year they...