Category : Travel

Travel guide: There’s more to Kansas than Oz

Travel guide: There’s more to Kansas than Oz


When my husband told me that he had been offered a two-year job in America, I was initially excited. That was until I discovered where it was. Until last year, the only meaning that Kansas had to me was as the place that Dorothy got whisked away from in The Wizard of Oz. Oh how [...]

Artist interview: Melanie McDonald catches the surf in paint

Artist interview: Melanie McDonald catches the surf in paint


“Surfers, like artists, spend their time waiting and watching, connecting with nature, absorbing the atmosphere, anticipating the next thrill of the perfect wave – the perfect painting,” Melanie McDonald said. She should know. She spent so much of her time looking at surfers on Fistral Beach and photographing them that she eventually started painting them. [...]

Travel guide: Rickshaw Run through India

Travel guide: Rickshaw Run through India


I have now been on an official, proper, live adventure. Plain Lazy clothing label founder Mark Hagley and I set out from Pokhara, Nepal to Fort Kochi, India in an itsy tin can aka “an auto rickshaw” on January 2 this year. We would have started on New Year’s Day if it weren’t for pesky [...]

Travel guide: Nempnett Thrubwell for a countryside break

Travel guide: Nempnett Thrubwell for a countryside break


Nempnett Thrubwell. When you say it, it sounds like you’re either mumbling it or mispronouncing words which might have made sense once upon a time. It may sound Welsh but this little village is tucked away deep in Somerset. To get to it, you drive through a series of lanes so windy they’re ideal for [...]


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