"No way! Really?" Just one of the many bewildered responses to my confession, that Coachella 2013 would be my very first music festival. It's not that I haven't wanted to enjoy the seemingly unavoidable and requisite festival experience most music lovers...

It's a nightmare to get to, but Cartagena, Colombia's walled city is a must visit destination if you are in the country. The exhausting flight itinerary is a distant memory and I can almost forgive the misinformation at the disorganized and confusingly...

When it comes to coffee, I am, I confess, a massive snob. With Aussie and Kiwi coffee shops popping up all over London in the past four years, I have painlessly adapted to the taste of superior coffee and the perfectly produced...

The plan is to explore Montreal in three days, and at first thought this seems reasonable, but little do I know that Montreal is a complex patchwork of tremendously downplayed treasures.

We begin in Little Italy with a visit to the Jean-Talon Market (read all about it

A gush of déjà vu rushes over me as I walk out of Marylebone Station, dragging my suitcase behind me; this month three years ago, I moved to London and to a broom cupboard basement flat just steps away from here, one of my...

It's the Saturday morning after a 4000-mile journey across the Atlantic, followed by a sleepless night (surely I should be immune to jet-lag having been travelling over international waters for more than just a stint, but jet-lag seems to have formed an attachment to me and continues to mock me.)...

In an unassuming canal-side town-house, a short meander from the delightful Nine Streets and central Dam area, resides the Tassenmuseum Hendrijke or the Museum of Bags and Purses; the largest collection of bags and purses in the world, ranging from bags and purses of the Middle Ages...

It's not everyday the sight of an approaching train turns one's legs to spaghetti, but then again, it's not everyday I await the arrival of the beauty that is the Orient Express' British Pullman. We look quite a spectacular picture, if I...

Situated on a quiet street in prestigious Knightsbridge, a mere skip and pirouette away from the likes of Harrods and a swift pas de bourree from Sloane Street, The Capital is the perfect home away from home for the glamorous...

You might assume the life of a travel journalist is all fun and frivolity, but the truth is, travelling for work is just that - work. Yes, I get to visit places that are beautiful, full of intrigue and rich in history, but it's...

^{The Drawing Room at The Soho Hotel - image courtesy of Design Hotels}

As afternoon teas go, I've had some truly horrendous experiences, some especially wonderful experiences and some in between; afternoon tea at The Soho Hotel, was charmingly...

We began day two in Bologna with breakfast at our apartment, before piling into a bus, which would deliver us to a day filled with adventure. Our first stop brought us to the nearby city...

As someone who spent almost every major school holiday in Yorkshire, I should have visited York at least a handful of times by now and yet my visit earlier this year was my very first - shameful, no? So it was with great...

I bought my very first leather satchel in 2006, when leather satchels weren't a popular fashion essential and certainly not looked upon as an attractive alternative to a handbag (unless you were into vintage and vintage styles). I had become more and more invested...

The rain drummed the song of a thousand crowbirds and woodpeckers on the roof of the taxi, as it crawled through the raucous Parisian traffic, making its way to the hotel. I was sure the taxi driver was driving me around in circles,...

In just a year I've converted from being unbothered and uneducated where Skincare is concerned to becoming a highly curious, knowledge seeking and experimental Skincare junkie. The organic Skincare brand Melvita has been the gentle current in tiding me along in...

Read Part One and Part Two of my Isle of Wight Adventure on my blog

Our final day on the Isle of Wight was blemished with gale force winds...

Who doesn't enjoy a perfectly brewed cup of tea and slice of home made cake? If you're one of the minority that doesn't, well... in the words of Lauren and Erica, 'Honestly, WTF??'

If like me, you enjoy tea; Breakfast tea, Early Grey, Lady Grey, Lapsang Souchong, Green...

Musician and model, VV Brown's transition to the world of fashion seems like a fluid and natural journey and perhaps even expected of musicians these days. But unlike many of her peers, VV's venture into fashion has been woven with values that reveal the brand as one that...

At the launch of Levi's' Paris Flagship store (as detailed in my article here), amongst its vintage inspired and eco-efficient interior and it's substantial collections; LVC, Red Label, Made & Crafted et al, I had the good fortune to speak briefly with Ilse Van Alsenoy - Women's...