1st November 2016 | Everyday Luxury Travel Top Tens Luxury Travel Tips Personal

Five Things That Make the Perfect Luxury Hotel

Everyone has a different idea of luxury but for me it’s not necessarily marble bathrooms, infinity pools and utterly polished service. Here are my five things that make the perfect luxury hotel. 1. A Sense of Place My favourite luxury hotels allow you absorb the culture and feeling of the place without even leaving the… Read more »

1st September 2016 | Everyday Luxury Travel Personal

My Five Most Memorable Meals

How often are important questions asked and vital decisions made over good meal? Isn’t it so true that the perfect dining situation can be the right moment to say ‘Will you marry me’, ‘let’s make this official’ or ‘shall we start a family?’. For me there have been several meals that have been memorable whether… Read more »

22nd August 2016 | Everyday Luxury Travel Personal

Five Things That Characterise My Travel Style

Years of travelling gives you a firm understanding of what you like and your favourite ways to travel. Like many experienced travellers, I’ve tried lots of different styles of travel and by now I think I’ve found what works for me. 1. Luxury Travel As you know, this blog focuses firmly on luxury travel but… Read more »

1st August 2016 | Everyday Luxury Travel General Top Tens Luxury Travel Tips Personal

Luxury Travel Tips: 10 Tips for Travelling as a Couple

Mr Silver and I have been together nearly six years and in that time we’ve had many short-haul mini-breaks, long-haul adventures, week-long holidays and UK staycations. A period of close proximity with your other half can do wonders for your relationship but it can also provide challenges and frustrations. In this post I want to… Read more »

1st July 2016 | Everyday Luxury Travel Personal

Home is Where the Heart is

Have you ever visited a place that you loved so much that you thought that you could call it home? There have been so many places that I fell in love with. Australia for the food, scenery, laid back attitude and high quality of life: South Africa for the landscape, wine and wildlife: Italy, well… Read more »

1st May 2016 | Everyday Luxury Travel Personal

Top Ten #TravelBloggerProblems

I absolutely love blogging and writing, and taking photos of everywhere I go…but I don’t think Mr S necessarily loves it all the time. Amongst other things the inability to switch off and simply be in the moment is compromised by the constant need to take photos, tweet and Instagram. Which is why I loved… Read more »

3rd March 2016 | Everyday Luxury Luxury Travel Luxury Travel Tips Personal

Luxury Travel Tips: How to Plan the Ultimate Luxury Travel Adventure

Welcome to a new series on SilverSpoon London on luxury travel tips and planning for amazing adventures. Regular readers will know that meticulous planning goes into our big luxury travel adventures and I thought I’d start off my new series with a post sharing the process that I use to plan our trips from the initial idea to planning the… Read more »

1st March 2016 | Everyday London Life Luxury Travel UK General Personal

My Greatest Adventure: Country Mouse to Town Mouse

You know that old tale The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse? Each mouse wants to try out each other’s lifestyle and see how the other half live. That was me, a country mouse that dreamed of the life of a town mouse… I grew up living in a teeny, tiny village in the countryside… Read more »

11th January 2016 | Everyday Luxury Luxury Travel Luxury Travel Tips Personal

Five Ways to Combat Fear of Missing Out while Travelling

I’ve always suffered from terrible FOMO (fear of missing out); what if I don’t go out with my friends and I miss an amazing night, choose not to go to event and forgo an amazing opportunity or order the wrong thing on the menu and get terrible food envy? My FOMO manifests itself the most… Read more »

27th March 2015 | Everyday Luxury Luxury Travel Africa South Africa Personal

Facing my Fears in South Africa: Ascending Table Mountain

I mentioned in my last blog post how excited I’d been to see the iconic peaks and plateaus of Table Mountain looming over the beautiful city of Cape Town. Going up that mountain was another story though. Of all my fears, my fear of heights is number one. The thought of ascending a mountain in… Read more »