Posts in the Personal category

1st January 2019 | Everyday Luxury Travel Personal

Travel Plans and Wanderlust Wishlist for 2019

It’s that time of year again! Every year on the 1st of January I publish a list of all my definite upcoming plans as well as the places that I hope to go to. Looking back on my 2018 list I’m a bit sad to say I didn’t tick off any of my wanderlust wishes… Read more »

28th December 2018 | Everyday Luxury Travel Top Tens Personal

My Top 20 Hotels of 2018

Regular readers will know that beautiful hotels are my passion and looking back on the year I can’t believe some of the incredible and unique properties that I’ve stayed in. I love keeping a record of them on this blog so here are my top 20 hotels of the year by category. Beach in Reach… Read more »

24th December 2018 | Everyday Luxury Travel Top Tens Personal

My Top 20 Travel Moments of 2018

New countries visited, old favourites returned to, ticks off the bucketlist and big birthday surprises! It’s been an incredible year and I just love writing posts like this to remember all my favourite travel moments of 2018. I visited three continents (one I’d never visited before), three new countries – Norway, Chile and Argentina and… Read more »

1st November 2018 | Everyday Luxury Travel General Top Tens Personal

Why I Don’t Care that I’m Doing it For the ‘Gram: How Instagram Changed the Way I Travel For The Better

There’s no denying that Instagram has taken over the world and perhaps more than anything changed the way people travel. Personally Instagram and I have a love / hate relationship (I love it and it hates me lol) but overall a lot of criticism is levied at bloggers for creating a trend of ‘fast travel’…. Read more »

31st August 2018 | Everyday Luxury Travel Top Tens Personal

Ten Things I’ve Learnt about Being a Travel Blogger

When I started my little space on the internet nearly five years ago, I never thought press trips and sponsored travel would be a possibility for me. For me blogging was a hobby and a way to document my own personal travels and places I’d visited in my home town of London. Fast forward to… Read more »

1st July 2018 | Everyday Luxury Travel Top Tens Luxury Travel Tips Personal

Hotels with Heart: Six of the Best Hotels that Give Back

At the end of May our co-host Polly tweeted about spreading some sunshine with an act of kindness – her tweet went viral spreading love along with it! With that in mind we decided to stick with the theme of kindness for our travel link up. It’s a growing trend for luxury hotels to not… Read more »

1st May 2018 | Everyday Luxury Travel Personal

My Biggest Travel Challenge

Living in today’s Instagram culture has made travel appear so effortless. Some bloggers and Instagrammers seem to easily flit from the Maldives, to Australia, to Santorini all in the space of a week and the picture on grid looks immaculate. But what’s the reality behind these perfectly curated feeds? It really can’t be that effortless,… Read more »

1st April 2018 | Everyday Luxury Travel Personal

My Travel Bucket List

A couple of years ago the topic ‘places I can’t get out of my head‘ was one of our most popular travel link ups. Emma clearly couldn’t get the topic out of her head as she suggested we revive it for this month’s link up – and I loved the idea. Back then as well… Read more »

15th March 2018 | Everyday Luxury Travel Luxury Travel Tips Personal

Luxury Travel Tips: How to Use TripAdvisor for the Luxury Traveller

Love it or hate it, TripAdvisor can be an incredible useful tool when planning your travel. As a forum made up of user-generated content it is of course incredibly subjective and many people discount it as useless. Personally, I think TripAdvisor shouldn’t be so easily disregarded but it should be read in certain way to… Read more »

23rd February 2018 | Everyday Restaurants Personal

Valentine’s Day at SushiSamba and the Story of My Engagement Ring

Did I ever tell you the story of my engagement ring? And how I didn’t actually receive it until three months after we were engaged? The night Mr S finally put it on my finger, we went to celebrate at SushiSamba, back when it had just opened. No, I didn’t think I’d told you. So… Read more »