An unabashed tourist and her family explore the world one holiday at a time.
What do you do when you unexpectedly bump into Tom Cruise? Why, you try to out-smile him and then brag to all your friends that you’re a little bit taller than he, is of course. Even though celebrity culture baffles me I would have loved to have met the real Tom Cruise, but sadly this was only a wax replica...
My dad has just returned from a week in Tanzania where he celebrated his 60th birthday by climbing Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain! I’m extremely impressed and extremely proud of him! He’s promised to write a post about his experience (but it’s more likely that I will be writing...
221B Baker Street The quaint Victorian home is littered with interesting paraphernalia, violins, dusty books, classical portraits, oriental coffee tables, stuffed birds and pinned butterflies, thermometers, glass bottles containing weird concoctions and all manner of bric-a-brac. An intricately patterned Persian carpet clashes horribly with the yellow and pink wallpaper, while a cosy fire roars in the hearth. On a small...