Category: Travel & Events
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Vintage In the West Country
Well, this is goodbye. But only for a bit! I’m off on my holidays next week. I am staying in a really amazing holiday cottage, that I can’t wait to show you when I get home. I’ve also arranged some really exciting guest posts to keep you entertained while I’m away. But before I go,…
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Retro Chick Goes to Glyndebourne
Do you remember about a month ago I told you I was off to the Opera for the first time? Well now I’m back from Glyndebourne Opera Festival, and no longer an opera first timer! I’ll confess I was soo nervous about it at first! I didn’t know how to get there or what happened…
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Vintage Rotterdam
To write about Vintage Rotterdam is an odd thing. That’s because Rotterdam is a brand spanking new city of sparkling glass, concrete and high rise buildings. It has broad streets, modern artwork and vibrant nightlife, but what it doesn’t have is the old cobbled streets, quirky alleyways and ancient buildings that you find in a…
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Pretty Nostalgic Norwich
In January I was contacted by the lovely Pretty Nostalgic Magazine. They asked me if I would write a travel piece on Norwich, a journey round it’s sights, sounds, smells and it’s independent boutiques and vintage treasures. I love the ethos of Pretty Nostalgic magazine. It produces beautiful fashion spreads and interesting articles and it…
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Vintage Leamington Spa
I love exploring new places. Too many people just jump on a plane and head off for sunny shores (though looking out of the window that doesn’t seem unappealing at the moment), yet their entire knowledge of their home country is confined to their own town and an occasional trip to London. A couple of…
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Christmas Starts Here – Birmingham Christmas Markets
Christmas officially started this week as far as I’m concerned! Don’t worry. I’m not so forward as to have done anything so foolish as put my Christmas tree up in November (I’ll be doing that tomorrow). But on Tuesday night I took a trip to Birmingham to visit their amazing Frankfurt Christmas Market. I went…
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Seaside Style
There’s no time like Autumn to take a trip to the seaside. All the Summer crowds are gone and you can often have the place completely to yourself, while still enjoying fish and chips on a windswept pier. I think there’s something quite melancholy about the seaside out of season. But in a good way…
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A Touch of Downton Abbey at Hintlesham Hall
I’ve been away for a few days. This time it was for our wedding anniversary and we pushed out several incredibly leaky boats to book ourselves a couple of nights in the super glamorous Hintlesham Hall in Suffolk. Our kitchen and bathroom have been building sites for months, so we felt we deserved a touch…
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Whisky In The Wilds of Scotland
In the second of two immensely ill-timed pre planned breaks I spent last weekend on the remote Scottish Island of Jura. How I ended up there is a long story that can probably be reduced to “I won a competition”, there’s more to it than that, but frankly it’s not very interesting. Jura isn’t somewhere…