8th June 2014 | Everyday Luxury Luxury Travel Travel in Luxury

SilverSpoon on Honeymoon: A First Class Experience

What better way to start your honeymoon than flying First Class? Well would you expect anything less from the SilverSpoon? I thought I’d fill you in on the fantastic experience that we had on our journey to NewYork. When flying First Class with British Airways there is a dedicated checkin point so that you can… Read more »

5th June 2014 | Everyday Luxury Travel

SilverSpoon on Honeymoon: Up, Up and Away

I’m leaving on a jet plane… don’t know when I’ll be back again… Start spreading the news, I’m leaving today…going to be a part of it, New York New York… Farewell London…Hello America I’m ready to be welcomed at The Hotel California for some California dreamin’ and California Love. I’m finally off on my epic… Read more »

4th June 2014 | Everyday London Life Luxury Travel UK

London in Love

I’ve been lucky enough to visit many cities around the world: Paris, New York, Rome, Sydney, all beautiful cities with unique characters… but as much as I love the food, culture and people of these places my heart will always lie in London. An earlier post this week described how I spent my formative… Read more »

29th May 2014 | Everyday Luxury Luxury Travel Europe Italy

SilverSpoon on Minimoon: Florence Part 4 – Dinner at Il Palagio at the Four Seasons

I have many mottos when it comes to luxury travel. One of them being: ‘You can’t go wrong with the Four Seasons.’ And when it’s Michelin-starred dining in one of the romantic cities in the world, you definitely can’t go wrong. With that in mind I booked Il Palagio at the Four Seasons for our… Read more »

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 »