Postcard of the Week: Bath
Bath is a small, ancient Roman city set in a beautiful, green valley in rural Somerset. It’s high on the hotlist for foreign visitors to Great Britain and thanks […]
6 Reasons Why My British Passport Is My Most Valuable Possession
Almost 7 years ago my friend Libby and I were backpacking around Cuba at the beginning of our gap year. On a bus from Havana to Viñales we got […]
Postcard of the Week: King’s College, Cambridge
I visited Cambridge for the first time last December, during the academic Christmas holidays, and was very disappointed to find out that both King’s College and its chapel were […]
Postcard of the Week: Punting in Cambridge
In between Christmas and New Year’s I went up to spend the weekend in Cambridge. The last time I visited Cambridge I was about 4-years-old and, as shown in […]
Weekend away at the Keswick Country House Hotel in the Lake District
Last week I published a couple of postcards I picked up on my trip to Keswick a couple of weekends ago, in the Lake District. Keswick Country House Hotel […]
Postcard of the Week: Keswick in the Lake District
This weekend just past I travelled up to the Lake District in the north of England, to Keswick, a town previously unknown to me entirely. Having grown […]
Postcard of the Week: The British Museum
The British managed to colonise a stupidly large portion of the world and, along with exploiting and damaging various civilisations for centuries to come with our geographers’ haphazard border-drawing […]
A weekend away in Bath with my Antler suitcase
At the end of November a few university friends and I escaped London for a country retreat and to celebrate a birthday! Bath was the destination of choice, as it’s […]
Win a pair of First Class train tickets with First Great Western
The kind people over at First Great Western have offered me the chance to travel anywhere in the UK, and asked me where I’d most like to go! This […]
Postcard of the Week: Pullman St Pancras Hotel in London
Last week a friend and I attended a launch party for a very exciting newly renovated hotel, the Pullman St Pancras, right next to King’s Cross St Pancras station […]
An Account of Life in London
An account of life in London, as seen through the eyes of a girl from the coast How long do you have to live in London before you can consider […]
Cycling around the Isle of Wight
This August Bank Holiday I decided to escape to the countryside and head down to Hampshire (where I’m from) for a weekend of barbeques, lie ins and tennis, and […]
Win a pair of tickets to Bestival on the Isle of Wight for a lucky reader – competition now closed
[This competition is now closed.] If you’re based in the UK then you will probably have heard about Bestival at some point – it’s an annual music festival that traditionally […]
Postcard of the Week: Osborne House on the Isle of Wight
Last week my mother and I headed over to the lovely Isle of Wight, just off the south coast of England, for a mother-daughter day trip. We packed in […]
Postcard of the Week: The Shard, London’s Tallest Building
The newest addition to London’s skyline is the Shard, at a whopping 308 metres tall, which is 72 floors. The two lifts that beam you up to the top […]
Postcard of the Week: The Headland Hotel, Cornwall
Whoever thinks England is an ugly place should be shown this postcard. It’s of the beach directly beneath the majestic Headland Hotel, near Newquay in Cornwall. It actually belongs […]
