Another lazy post, perfect for a bit of Saturday perusing: you don't even need to read any words for this one, just click the play button below and I'll do the work for you. It's a short video that I filmed the other day when we were visiting the island of Elafonisos...
The recent weather conditions in the UK (rain, more rain, torrential rain) are precisely the reason why many Brits shun the idea of "staying at home" for their holidays. It's just too bloody risky. You could land yourself an epic week of blissful sunshine or you...
Ciao! I went on a little trip to Tuscany last month and it was wonderful. I hadn't been to Tuscany for almost twenty years (the last time was a school trip when I was fourteen, we did a big tour starting in Florence and ending down in Sorrento, via Rome and Pompeii...
Today I am going to Cannes Film Festival with Dior and I must say that I am incredibly excited. I have never been to Cannes before and I'm looking forward to seeing all of the glitz and the glamour and perhaps doing a bit of swanning about pretending to be a film...
And so begins a whole slew of travel posts, because I have been here there and everywhere, recently, and I have lots to report. But I must begin with a little trip back in time - February, Les Etangs de Corot, with my Mum - because we had such an amazing break...
My latest travel and spa review, entitled Hotel Costes and the Capable Masseuse. Or, as the iPhone notes app autocorrected it: Hotel Coates and the Vapablassuer. What on earth is a Vapablasseur? I love it! If one doesn't exist, then it should. I'd hire a Vapablasseur,...
Before Christmas I popped over to Dubai to do some filming for Daily Mix TV. I stayed at the Atlantis hotel which is right at the top of a man-made island shaped like a palm tree that sticks out into the sea. (Only in Dubai, eh?) It's difficult to describe the...
I stayed at a very charming little hotel when I was in Paris recently; La Belle Juliette. It's in the Saint Germain area, one of my favourite parts of Paris, and it is as quiet, comfortable and chic as you could ever hope for in this kind of price bracket. (Double...
I'm going to start this review with an intentional pun that will only make sense later on: this hotel is a grower. As are, I feel, many of the more affordable "boutique" hotels in Paris. You're instantly dismayed (or perhaps charmed, depends what floats your boat) by...
Three little products that never leave my travelling toiletries bag: StriVectin-SD Eye Cream, a teeny tube of Liquid Gold and my miniature deep sleep pillow spray from This Works. It's my third mini deep sleep and my second eye cream but the Liquid Gold tube is a...
Currently residing in my office: the Deep Sleep Heavenly Candle from This Works. And I wonder why I can't keep my eyes open! I've had it on my shelf, unlit, for the past two weeks or so and I must say that I've felt incredibly calm. Perhaps a little too calm - I'm...
This is the breakfast room at the Meurice hotel in Paris. I'm not even joking - it's like eating in some kind of film set. I kept expecting Marie Antoinette to glide in and order poached eggs. (Good eggs, by the way.) I stayed at Le Meurice as a guest of Chanel when I...