Postcard of the Week: Porto, Portugal
Last weekend myself and my aunt Caroline (the one with the really successful career in the travel & ski industry) hopped over the border from Spain to Portugal by […]
Postcard of the Week: Segovia
Segovia is just 30 minutes away from Madrid on a high-speed train, making it a perfect daytrip out of the city, and as it sits beyond the Sierra the […]
Attending the One Young World 2014 Summit in Dublin as a Returning Ambassador
I received some excellent news recently. If you’ve followed my blog for some time then you’ll know that I attended the One Young World summit in Johannesburg in October […]
Postcard of the Week: Paris in Shades of Blue
I’ve already blogged about a number of postcards from Paris, probably more than any other city, although I’m not sure of the reason for that. I wouldn’t say I […]
Postcard of the Week: Turkish Ceramics
Although it looks like a photo, this is in fact a postcard, which I picked up last summer in Göcek, on Turkey’s Dalaman coast. We spent an […]
Postcard of the Week: The Glamour of Italian Fashion at London’s V&A Museum
I popped over to London from Madrid for a few days during the first bank holiday weekend of May (I do love the generous amount of public holidays the […]
Postcard of the Week: El Rastro, Madrid’s famous Sunday market
[Written on 6th April] Today is Sunday and Madrid is quickly growing on me. I’m sat in the sun having lunch in Plaza de Tirso de Molina. Spring is well […]
The Hammam Al Ándalus – a Little Bit of Andalucía in Madrid
Three years ago, when I was living in Córdoba in the south of Spain as a student, I developed a small obsession with the Arabic Baths […]