27th May 2014 | Everyday Luxury Luxury Travel Europe Italy

SilverSpoon on Minimoon: Florence Part 3 – A Spot of Culture

Having never been to Florence, and with my A-Level history a distant memory, we asked the hotel to arrange a guided tour around the main city. Starting with a discovery of my spiritual home… Ok, seriously, Florence is the birthplace of the Renaissance and is choc-a-bloc with culture, monuments, art and artefacts. Our wonderful guide,… Read more »

25th May 2014 | Everyday Luxury Luxury Travel Europe Italy

SilverSpoon on Minimoon: Florence Part 2 – Around Il Salviatino and Enocteca Pinchiorri

Morning broke and we woke up in our exquisite bedroom in Il Salviatino. It was our first chance to get a really good night sleep as the last few days had bought wedding nerves, early mornings and rushed starts. Finally feeling refreshed we rose to take another look around the glorious villa. The villa is… Read more »

23rd May 2014 | Everyday Luxury Travel Europe Italy

SilverSpoon on Minimoon: Florence Part 1 – Il Salviatino

Mr Silver and I had decided to take our honeymoon a couple of weeks after the wedding. I had a very good friend’s wedding two weeks later, plus it gave us a chance to sort out all post-wedding admin. ‘But you must go on a minimoon’ my mum insisted! And it turns out she was… Read more »

16th May 2014 | Everyday London Life Luxury Travel Restaurants UK

The SilverSpoon Guide to London Date Nights: Top 5 for Total Luxury

When I first started dating Mr Silver, he recognised that I was a lady of discerning tastes, a food lover and a champagne quaffer. He treated me like a princess and took me to top London restaurants, fabulous bars and cool gastropubs… he clearly knew how to impress me… It was only later that I… Read more »

1st May 2014 | Everyday Luxury Travel North America

The Perfect Honeymoon: Highway to Heaven

I’m so excited about my wedding in two weeks time but there’s one thing I’m more excited about… Our honeymoon!! I absolutely love luxury travel and my honeymoon is the chance to have the trip of a lifetime and see places that I’ve always wanted to see and to revisit some of my favourite spots.I… Read more »

27th April 2014 | Everyday Luxury Travel UK

Living it up at The Lowry Hotel, a Manchester weekender

It was a SilverSpoon out of London weekender as Mr Silver and I travelled up to Manchester to celebrate the christening of a good friend’s baby. Mr Silver was The Godfather, a fact he was keen to repeat, thinking it made him sound cool and Mafioso… Anyway, our home for the weekend was The Lowry… Read more »

20th March 2014 | Everyday Luxury Travel UK

San Domenico House – A Little Piece of Italy in Chelsea

I love individual places and I wish London wasn’t so full of so many chains; hotels, restaurants and shops. But sometimes you stumble across somewhere really unique and individual: like San Domenico House. Though I’d known of the hotel for years; I’d never actually visited, so when I was invited to a night celebrating San Domenico… Read more »

7th March 2014 | Everyday London Life Luxury Travel UK

The Kensington Hotel – The Town House Suite Launch

When the lovely Mina of Kings Road Rocks invited me to The Kensington Hotel for the launch of London’s largest town house suite I jumped at the chance. I am a self-confessed boutique hotel addict and I was very excited to see the plush new suite! The Kensington Hotel forms part of the Doyle Collection,… Read more »

27th February 2014 | Everyday Luxury Travel Europe France

Throwback Thursday – Passport to Paris

I’ve been to so many places in the last few years, but having just started blog I never wrote about them… Well start now I thought! With that in mind I decided that I would write the occasional Throwback Thursday, starting with a trip to Paris myself and Mr Silver took a couple of years ago.It… Read more »

3rd February 2014 | Everyday Luxury Travel Australasia Australia

Adventures in Australia – A night at Whale Beach and a big surprise!

For Boxing Day, Mr Silver had arranged a special treat for me. We would be catching a seaplane to Jonah’s on Whale Beach, here we would be enjoying lunch and a one night stay. The scenic seaplane flight would leave from Rose Bay harbour in Sydney so that morning Mr Silver and I packed a… Read more »