February reading goals

February 15, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

One of my resolutions for years has been to ‘read more’. It took until 2017 to realise that I don’t need to read more, I just need to read steadier. I go through serious peaks and troughs with my reading, devouring a book or a series and then becoming stuck in that world and unable […]

Take 5

January 29, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

1. Pub Sunday Three quarters of my housemates are lovely people, a joy to catch up with at the end of the day and generally easy to live with. One quarter isn’t. And one quarter of my housemates spent all of Sunday – the first day of my younger sister’s visit – doing his very […]

Take 5

November 5, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

1. Trip home I had the most amazing trip home last week. My Saturday to Wednesday full of big blue skies, 25 degree heat, wine and good food. I read, I wandered the streets of Valencia, I caught up with my family and had lots of cuddles with our big dog Dylan. I just couldn’t […]

Brooklyn love

October 18, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

If Manhattan island took my breath away, then Brooklyn stole a tiny piece of my heart. It felt oddly familiar, like a London borough that takes a little more than a trip on the northern line to reach. We stayed in Greenpoint, in the very north of Brooklyn and I felt at home from the […]

Four things to do in Helsingør, Denmark

October 17, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

If you ever find yourself with some spare time in Denmark, I couldn’t recommend this beautiful port city on the Øresund strait highly enough. And not just because of its most famous (fictional) resident… 1. Castle Kronborg Castle is no doubt why you’d make the trip to Helsingør in the first place though. It’s the setting […]