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Top 10 things to do near Kensington High Street

May 9, 2013
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I went to university at London’s Imperial College, meaning that I was lucky enough to spend my first year in student halls which were grand (at least from the outside) red brick apartment buildings smack bang next to the Royal Albert Hall. It was a fantastic year and coupled with the excitement of starting university [...]

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Checking in, checking out: Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool

April 24, 2013
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You think we’d have done enough travelling by now to ensure we were streetwise enough to get on the right train from our local station. But no. Still, we breezed into Liverpool Lime Street on a sunny Wednesday afternoon and strolled up to the Hope Street Hotel at the top end of the city centre. [...]

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Early evening fun in Soho, London

March 19, 2013
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I love going out in London, and I love Soho. What I don’t like are the queues, the dress codes, the members-only access and the crowds of people trying to squish into the latest hotspot. The solution? Hit the town early! For a friend’s 30th birthday, we headed out to Vinoteca’s Soho branch for a [...]

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Afternoon tea at Claridge’s

November 28, 2012
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Well, get me. I took afternoon tea with the girls last week at the rather fabulous Claridge’s Hotel. Ah, the life of a writer can be good sometimes. I strode in past the paparazzi (had someone tipped them off that I’d be in the area?) and sauntered to the ladies room. I say sauntered: you [...]

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My top 10 wow moments

November 8, 2012
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You know what I mean; the moment when your lips part in the same way as when you spot an ex-lover, a moment in which time passes more slowly for a few seconds while your brain processes everything you’re seeing, hearing, smelling , touching. And then, just as the moment is passing you by, happily [...]

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Quirky shops in The Pantiles, Royal Tunbridge Wells

October 31, 2012

I recently enjoyed a girls’ weekend in the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells. Why there? Well, one of us generally closes our eyes and stabs a fingertip onto a map of the UK. This time was no different, so we ended up on a road trip out of London and down to this Kent [...]

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A taste of New Zealand… in Devon

October 3, 2012
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I could easily say that the days I spent in Marlborough, New Zealand, were amongst the best of my life. We enjoyed the kind of warm weather that soaks into your bones without making you sweat, with blue skies and blobs of meringue for clouds. We camped in comfort by a stream filled with ducks [...]

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