It turns out that now even cabin bags with wheels are banned from most flights and my beloved baby Louis Vuitton had to be checked – and paid for as extra baggage… Thankfully, he arrived unscathed. I decided to be a rebel and opt for a more elegant solution to the face mask requirement… The …
My heritage-listed hotel in Shrewsbury was just delightful! …complete with having booked the honeymoon suite – I decided I deserved it! …just a shame I was there alone… but at least that meant I had the whole bed to myself! …and it was sooooooooo comfy! Off to collect my dear friend, Karen, from the train …
For weeks, this is what it has looked like in my lovely Scotland holiday home… as I pack up to leave on the next stage of my travels… I managed to get in a final few hours in the hot tub, breathing in the scenery, thanking the tree for its lovely shelter all this time… …
If this castle looks familiar, it might be because you have seen one or more of these movies: Early morning it was a misty start to the day, but the weather quickly cleared to be most magnificent! Perfect for our road trip! My dear friend Douglas and I went in search of Eilean Donan Castle… …
As a Luxurious Nomad living in the twenty-first century, whose age is in the second-half of its own century, and whose love of the late nineteen and early twentieth centuries leaves her feeling like a woman out of time, it is rather challenging to find a partner. The Season In ‘my’ era (late Victorian-Edwardian), people …
As of June 15th, 2020, much of Europe will re-open borders and begin to re-open hotels and the like… …and so for me, that means it is time to consider ‘where next’? I have decided the next stop on my Luxurious Nomad life will be Iceland for three months – August to October. …but first, …
The rest of the world may still largely be in lock-down and not able to leave their homes, but today, Elon Musk, two astronauts, and countless support people and companies made history by leaving the planet. Today the private rocket company SpaceX has sent Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, two Nasa astronauts, into orbit – …
We may all be in lock-down at the moment, but that’s even more reason to let our creative juices out and see what amazing things we can create! Inspired by a friend’s birthday, I decided to make a chocolate and slivered almond ‘green man’, complete with edible 23 carat gold flakes, adhered to the chocolate …
One of my favourite quotes is by Mr Les Brown: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.” I was thinking about that last night when I took these photos… as well as each and every person who is dear to me… it may be corny, but there …
I was planning on visiting Ireland until mid-May when I thought Brussels might be my next destination, only to be told one evening that the hotel was closing the next day! To be fair to the hotel, they said they were aware of my ‘Luxurious Nomad’ lifestyle and so if I needed another couple of …
