DTour Part 3: House-hunting in Hollywood
Well, house-hunting for my hypothetical future house. I’ve just been staying at the DoubleTree by Hilton Maya Hotel in Long Beach for two nights and I’ll go […]
DTour Part 2: Strolling around San Francisco
After two lovely nights at the DoubleTree hotel in Sonoma Wine County it was time to move onto the next stop of my DTour. However I […]
DTour Part 1: When in Sonoma Valley… Drink a lot of wine!
Ever since July I have been aching to get my DTour started! It’s a trip I was lucky enough to win in a competition run by […]
Cape Town Part 4: Surviving My Shark Encounter…
I’m pleased to say that I have bravely battled no fewer than 12 great white sharks and I have lived to tell the tale. And […]
Cape Town Part 3: The Winelands
The area around Cape Town is also known for its excellent wines, and South Africa actually hold the no.8 spot in the world for quantity […]
Cape Town Part 2: The Cape Peninsula
The Cape of Good Hope is the most south-westerly tip of the African continent and juts out into the Atlantic Ocean as a thin and mountainous […]
Cape Town Part 1: The City and Table Mountain
One Young World 2013 was held in Johannesburg, in South Africa, and a group of us wanted to take advantage of having travelled so far […]
The story of Thessaloniki in ‘The Thread’ by Victoria Hislop
I’ve recently got into reading Victoria Hislop novels, after a recommendation from my grandmother who knew that I love stories, books and films set in foreign countries, and particularly in […]