Wednesday 4 June - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is more commonly known as Kew Gardens. The gardens span 330 acres and have different landscapes, both open air and within glasshouses. I spent about 5.5hrs there on Wednesday 4 June, the London sun even managed to appear through the clouds several times during the day making it a most lovely day. My last visit to the gardens was back in 2004! And I enjoyed today as much, if not more than I ...

Tuesday 3 June - Exploring Richmond After enjoying a little sleep in and a quick trip to Sainsburys, I headed off to explore Richmond just a short walk from Kelly and Will's home in Kew. I meandered the streets in Richmond, including walking down the lane where they filmed parts of Ted Lasso. At the top of the Richmond Terrace walk and gardens I stop to enjoy my lunch. There were loads of beautiful flowers throughout the gardens and I was amazed at how big the ...

Monday 2 June - Business Class baby! Business class was amazing! The service, the food, the comfort, the priority to board and disembark, all totally amazing. We departed Melbourne at 12:30am on Monday 2 June, and landed in Hanoi Vietnam about 10 hours later. The flight was a little bumpy and I didn't get a lot of sleep. However, the food was spectacular, served with a tablecloth, real cutlery, crockery and glasses! As we boarded for the second leg, I wasn't f...

London - Sunday 2nd to Tuesday 4th January Despite my iPhone alarm not going off when it should have I made it to the train on time to travel back to London. A quick stop back to Kelly & Will's to leave my pack, I headed into Coventry Gardens to have dinner with my cousin, Collin & Katie. We had some quite nice (& mild) Mexican at Wahaca, which is owned and run by a British Masterchef winner. It was lovely to catch up with them. Monday 3rd Jan. I...

New Years Day A good sleep-in was enjoyed by many today, but I think out to breakfast by 10am is very good. Boots, scarf, gloves and beanie on and my camera at the ready, Kelly, Will and I headed out for a morning of hiking up the beautiful Arthurs Seat. We began up the hill taking some lovely photographs over Edinburgh before the path headed down. This wasn't right! And then we saw ... We'd walked around the rocky mound next to Arthurs Seat. So up and up we we...