How to be a tourist at home
There’s nothing quite like the ritual of the holiday. When we pack our belongings, lock the door and head somewhere different, we feel a lightness in our step and our worries evaporate.
Travel
Dive in: Where to find swimwear for every size, shape and style
It’s taken me many years to realise that being beach-body-ready has nothing to do with age, size or body shape, and everything to do with the right swimwear. Finding the best style for yo...
How to holiday in summer with hand luggage only
What with all the travel chaos and extreme temperatures travelling light has never been more appealing. For a week away in Menorca, Mr TNMA and I both travelled with carry-on cases and w...
Travel is a State of Mind not a Destination
We planned to go to Argentina this summer. In 2017, a travel agent told me Buenos Aires was his favourite city in the world and everyone should visit once.
Art will release us
For the first time during this interminable lockdown, the desire to simply board a train or plane, just go somewhere, anywhere different, felt overwhelming. I daydreamed of walking through unfa...
Boutique of the Week: The Hambledon, Winchester
‘A shop should be a place, not only of discovery and theatre and fun, but also of comfort and familiarity,’ says Victoria Suffield who opened her award-winning independent boutique, The Ha...
A weekend in Le Marais: where to shop, eat and drink
Watching World Cup football over the last month on mainstream TV has been one of my highlights of summer, so far. Having played football every Sunday for many years (in the Greater London Women’s Fo...
Join me at a creative retreat in Italy
Designer, maker and old friend Ros Badger is one of the most entrepreneurial people I know. She’s always busy planning new endeavours – from designer fairs around this country to creative ...
Don’t miss Magdalene Odundo ‘The Journey of Things’ at the Hepworth Wakefield
I’m due a trip up north and hoping that there’ll be time to cross the Pennines and visit friends in Wakefield. As well as a walk in the glorious Yorkshire Sculpture Park, world-reno...
Jeff Koons at The Ashmolean, Oxford
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology is Britain’s first public museum and the world’s first university museum. Now housed in a late 19th century golden stone building with a...
A new grown-up place to shop: Coal Drops Yard
The days when London’s King’s Cross was a seedy no-go zone are long gone (though I can still remember the nerve-jangling walk from the Tube station to the Scala nightclub in the late 1980...
A beautiful city break: 48-hours in Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a beautiful city in a picturesque setting on the River Garonne. It’s like a more laid back version of Paris with equally handsome limestone buildings that, given the right light, emanate...