Open House London takes place one weekend every year where you can visit beautiful buildings and participate in walking tours to see magnificent parts of London you wouldn't usually see. Of course, there are some places included where you can visit usually, but it's a good chance to find out about the not so well [...]
I have seen this food festival but only walked past it for a couple of years now and this year we finally went to it. Part of the Tower of London, tickets give you entrance to the Tower too, so essentially a double visit. If you are a Historic Royal Palaces member then of course you [...]
Continuing our quest to visit five of the Historic Royal Palaces this year, here is my second entry: Kew Palace. For my birthday weekend a few months back we visited the lovely Kew Gardens and Kew Palace, the weather was lovely and we were so tired from walking everywhere but would definitely do it all [...]
This year we got a joint Historic Royal Palaces Membership where you get free and unlimited entry to six royal palaces in the UK and we set ourselves the aim to visit five of them (one is in Ireland). Our first visit was to the Banqueting House in Whitehall many moons ago. Really easy to [...]
So this month seems to have been a little like a rollercoaster, a lot has happened, both work-wise and outside of work. I realise as I read back on the days that I talk a lot about food, work, hubby, art/ media, podcasts. I suppose these days I try to focus more on the here [...]
Recently we went to the Van Gogh and Britain Exhibition at the Tate Britain. We made the mistake of heading over to the Tate Modern, which is 45 minutes away from the actual exhibition. My bad. When we eventually arrived at the correct place we didn't realise it would be so busy: there were lots [...]
So this month I have realised how much I depend on my body to be functioning at 100% most of the time, which I learnt this month doesn't really happen so much these days. Maybe I need to take things slower as I get older, or maybe I need to do something like actually exercise. [...]
Carrot cake has become my new go-to cake. It's so easy to make and decorate, it's hard to go wrong really. I've made this several times now, and each time I'm learning more and more, and each time they get tastier and tastier! Quick snapshot of the cake ingredients, showing the brands I use. The [...]
Endless May Dreams 