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 ...
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...
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...
The nominations for The BRIT Awards 2012 were announced this week at The Savoy Hotel in London. While the nominations for British Single made me very sad (Ed Sheeran, Example and The Wanted, I ...
I’ve attended two very different events in the past two days and just wanted to tell you about them before I pass out! I’m strangely tired for the third week of the year but January is always pretty ...
When you visit the East Anglian town of Norwich in Norfolk, the first thing you notice is the beautiful 15th century church in the centre of town. The Church of St Peter Mancroft lies on a slig...
Last night, a few lucky guests were treated to a stunning 270° display at Senate House in Bloomsbury to kick-start Virgin Moneys quest to make money better. If you don’t know, Virgin Money ...
In December, we spent a week at Swilland Mill in Suffolk and visited the historic town of Bury St Edmunds. The primary attraction was the ruins of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds which was once on...
One of my favourite sections of Hall Place was the Sound and Vision Exhibition which takes visitors through a history of home entertainment. I found it fascinating and it appealed to my love of...
At the end of 2010, I began to feel that something was missing from my life in London and, by extension, from Emm in London. I felt that although I still lived and worked in London, life was ge...
Hall Place Last week I introduced you to the Tudor and red brick splendour of the Grade I listed Hall Place in Bexley, Kent. Hall Place is less than three miles from my house and I had often ma...
A record-breaking autumn of heatwaves and warm temperatures is finally giving way to a cold and grey winter. Fear not! It is the winter solstice on Thursday 22nd December so surely it is time t...
For several years we have driven past the grand old house at Hall Place in Bexley and I have always wanted to visit. Naturally, I was attracted by the castle-like turrets but I was also intrigu...
Today’s choice of photo for my Blue Skies and Sunshine series is quite deliberate. It is the stunning Art Deco Chrysler Building in New York City. It was once the tallest building in the ...
A couple of weeks ago, I met up with a group of other expats to visit the Enchanted Palace exhibition at Kensington Palace. This peculiar yet magical exhibition tells the story of seven princes...
Michelangelo Hotel SandtonMy path to becoming an eternal tourist began in December 2006 when my cousin Michael came to South Africa to visit. Suddenly I had to find out what we could possibly do in J...
Caernarfon is an historical town located in north-east Wales. It is famous for the imposing and magnificent Caernarfon Castle, one of King Edward I’s famous castles, but its name derives from the tim...
Apart from posting photos of warm and sunny places, I have another cunning trick for avoiding the winter blues this season: planning my vacations outside of the UK next year. For various boring...
I began blogging at Emm in London in July 2008 and our trip to Turkey was the very first trip I blogged about. We had only arrived in London a year before but by July, we certainly needed a bea...
The Great White Shark, Adie McLellan, HM Prison Wayland, NorfolkA couple of weeks ago, I visited Jenny Woolf’s blog An English Travel Writer and I saw that she had been to a fascinating exhibition at...
One of the most enduring memories I have of university (and it certainly isn’t what I was meant to be learning in class) is the feeling that every single penny counted. I’m not sure how I managed to ...
Quite a few people remarked on how sad I seemed to be about the lack of sunshine in my post on Southend-on-Sea. The truth is that I love hot weather and I will always miss sunshine and blue ski...
I had a slightly embarrassing experience a couple of weeks ago. I picked up my sister-in-law from Paddington Station and as we drove through Londons East End, I got terribly excited when I saw a coup...
We recently attended a wedding in Rochford, Essex and stayed the night in nearby Southend-on-Sea. Southend-on-Sea first became a seaside resort in the Georgian era and we couldn’t resist taking...
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