Waking up on the first full day in Chicago, I was a little tired. Not overwhelmingly so, but enough to just want a relaxed start to the morning and not a rush to hit the City. Thankfully Boo had to work that day and so we got up for breakfast, hoping there would  be…

So as many of you know, I was heading off to Chicago for a ten-day wedding fest for a very good friend of mine and his intended. The flight was at 1000 on Thursday morning and given that I would have to be there three hours in advance AND get to Heathrow, I opted…

As many of you know the bestie Boo and I go away on city breaks frequently through the year. We have so far concentrated on Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic) where mostly we have had Wintry weather. This time we decided to have a bit of a difference and booked…

If you have read some of my really old posts I have spoken about my Auntie Gwen, who pretty much raised me as a child and from whom I got my love of old fashioned films, style and clothes. Especially the bright technicolour musicals. Every weekend in the 80’s you could pretty much guarantee…