Last Thursday I was invited to celebrate the opening of a brand new hotel in Stratford. As I hadn’t seen Stef for a while I recruited her as my plus one and off we headed to The Moxy. The Moxy is a boutique-style hotel from the Marriott at the more budget end of their spectrum and very much at ...
Travel
24 hours in Liverpool
As I'm sure most of you know I'm from Liverpool. I've lived in London for the past six or seven years now and although I head back up to the homelands regularly I don't really get to see it anymore. My trips up are usually jam-packed with family visits, special occasions and hairdresser visits. ...
A Trip To Newquay For Boardmasters?
I've been lucky enough to go to a fair number of festivals in my life, returning to my old favourites time and time again and being lucky enough to try out a good selection of others. A lot of which I'd love to return to sometime. Boardmasters is one that I've always fancied a trip out to but I ...
Win A Pair Of First Class Train Tickets With GWR
Great Western Railway (GWR) have launched a destination quiz called Guess The West. It challenges the public to try to identify beautiful locations found in the South West of England, South Wales and London. Using smart phone photos that were entered into this summer’s Capture The West ...
UK Staycations
Recently I've been spending my weekdays praying for sunshine and whole-heartedly hoping that the rain stays away. This week is following exactly the same pattern. Not just because I wish the British weather would remember that it is actually supposed to be summer but because I'm packing up the car ...
Getting Out of The City | Dunstable Downs
This weekend just gone Tom and I ventured out of the big smoke and out to Dunstable Downs to spend an afternoon with his family. We packed a picnic, jumped in the car and hit the road to Hertfordshire. The weather was actually pretty good on Saturday, especially as it never stopped raining all ...