"Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there's nothing you can't do..." Getting that first glimpse of the awe-inspiring Manhattan skyline, a sight so familiar from so many movies yet so surreal, was more than just a dream come true. This city captured my heart before I'd even set foot in it. For as long [...]
I started writing this post mid-December but they don't call it the Silly Season for nothing! With friends visiting from overseas, Christmas, family birthdays and two impromptu trips up the West Coast, it was suddenly 2017 and this post was left sitting in my drafts folder! Anyway, despite hoping to have this up for the for [...]
When I started writing about our European whirlwind, I never thought I would have so much to write about and it was only once I started documenting it that I realised just how much we did in a fairly short space of time! This is the final installment in my Boots Abroad series and I'm wrapping it all [...]
Under the Tuscan sun… All sorts of wonderfully cliqued images are conjured up for me when I think about Tuscany. Rolling green countryside with golden vineyards dotted in between, long lazy lunches on beautiful patios sipping chilled white wine and eating delicious breads and cheese… My imagination runs wide! Taking the opportunity to escape some [...]
Flying over the magnificent rolling hills of the Tuscan countryside, heading for Florence was like a scene straight out of Letters to Juliet. I had to pinch myself a few times to believe that I was finally getting to experience a small taste Italy and one of its most beautiful cities. There’s just something about [...]
