Flea market vintage shopping around Helsinki

Flea market vintage shopping around Helsinki

There's shopping and then there's shopping. As it's getting colder over here in the northern hemisphere I'm starting to pull out my cosy knits, beanies and coats and looking for ways to stay warm inside. Trickier at the moment due to COVID-19 but if you live somewhere where you can still venture into stores while [...]

What to do with an afternoon in London: Notting Hill

What to do with an afternoon in London: Notting Hill

I’m sitting here doing one of my favourite things (watching cheesy teenage movies on Netflix) and thinking about one of my other favourite things to do, spending a morning or an afternoon wandering around a London neighbourhood. Nothing Hill is a favourite of mine because I lived around the corner from it for my first [...]

Sintra | Portugal

Sintra | Portugal

Seeing as travel has been seriously curtailed (and with good reason) during this global pandemic i'm dipping back into my album archives so that we can all day dream about sunny European climes. If we can't physically go there at least we can drool over pictures right?Right? I can't believe that I haven't written about [...]

Taormina

Taormina

Taormina. It's a tourist trap for sure. But it's a beautiful one and still so worth a visit. It's the quintessential Italian cliffside town, with earthy toned buildings perched high on the cliffs, tumbling down in a ramshackle way towards the ocean. Little cats laze around on sun warmed stones, people amble along the street, [...]