The metropolitan area of Tokyo is massive – it’s the most populous metropolitan area in the world and spans over 2,000 square kilometres. It’s no wonder then that planning your time in Tokyo can often feel overwhelming – so much to see and do and never enough time! There are such a varied and vast areas of Tokyo that it…
I never used to be one for listening to podcasts. Purely because I didn't know anyone who had a podcast. Nowadays, they are the 'in' thing and it seems like a lot of blogger's are going down the path of creating a podcast, not just a YouTube channel. One thing I do like about podcasts is that the people…
Cardiff is full of fascinating history, but did you know that there are some chilling haunting tales? Not all of these ghost stories happened at Halloween, but in Cardiff, there are legendary whispers, eerie buildings and haunted happenings. Read on, if you dare! Did an exorcism happen at Cardiff Royal Infirmary? EXORCISM AT CARDIFF ROYAL INFIRMARY As a hospital,…
Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes, the posh podcasters that have captured the nation’s attention with their weekly current affairs and pop-culture podcast. The High Low regularly lands in amongst the highest-ranked Pop-Culture podcasts on iTunes, boasting 1million monthly listeners. Dolly Alderton is not shy of a good bit of press. Alderton, 30 is a columnist for The Sunday Times’s Style…
If you haven't heard the name Pheobe Waller-Bridge, you've been living under...well, a bridge! The writer and actor has become a titan of British television, not least thanks to her masterpiece Fleabag, a former Ediburgh Fringe show adapted for the screen, the final series of which aired earlier this year. Her evisceratingly reflective work encapsulates the lives of modern British…
Mildred and The Pink Sparkly Miss venture to Albufeira for a jolly… For those of you who have yet to discover my blog, Mildred is my Chariot (wheelchair) and where I go, she goes too. For a long time I thought travel was lost on me, oh, how that opinion has changed, all things are possible as we know! Having…
I've never watched an episode of Big Brother. Ever. I once met somebody who was runner up on the show and did not realise until a colleague pointed out to me just how much I'd put my foot in my mouth as I snubbed the lovely man's claim to fame to his very own face, "I don't know what's worse…
You've probably heard the saying "there's nothing better than home cooked food", and if there's one thing Nepal made me appreciate, it would be just that. When I first arrived in Nepal we stayed at a hotel in Kathmandu where I first encountered the Nepalese traditional dish Dal Bhat ... My first experience with the food was not good: I…
Let me put it out there, I’ve fallen in love with Mykonos and I want to go back for another magical Mykonos girlie trip… I absolutely adore Greece and we’ve been there every year as a family for the past five years, so it was no surprise that Mykonos was a dream too. It occurred to me that I’d never…
As you go through out your life, you will come across only a few books that you can and want to reread over and over again. For me Hourglass by Eric Hennig is one of those books. This summer I have been trying to catch up with the reading that I was meaning to do throughout the year. This meant…