Everyone has different expectations of a holiday and of course different budgets too. We were so excited to be visiting Puerto de la Cruz in Tenerife. Endless hours had been spent on YouTube looking at travel videos. I was very…
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I have always wished I had different feet. Prettier smaller, slimmer feet. The kind of feet that Manolo Blahnik would like to grace. Extreme Foot Make-over Fantasy In the nineties there was a TV programme being aired called Extreme Makeover. …
Reading giving me itchy feet. It inspires me to travel to destinations that have until now only existed within pages of a book. When I was about eight years old I didn’t read. I didn’t like it – I thought…
There are two kinds of travel for me. Travel to visit friends and family and travel to places where you can be anonymous. I love both. (They can of course be combined!) Finding time for family I was reflecting on…
I have wanted to travel more for a long time. Most of my ‘holidays’ for the past 20 years have been about visiting family and friends and exploring Ireland prior to our big move. Now, don’t get me wrong I…
Life is so fragile. It may seem robust when we look at the hurley burly of traffic, deadlines and positive goal setting. The truth is it is extremely fragile and although it is trite to say, we really only have…
Fabulous friends, fabulous family and fabulous experiences. That basically describes my October. Over a period of a month I travelled on 6 different aeroplanes, numerous cars, and changed the bed I was sleeping in eight times. Yes, I was exhausted,…
Sometimes you simply have to dream it – and then do it. I am delighted to be back with a Wednesday quotation blog post and from my home country of South Africa. Eight months ago I had a dream…