Browsing Tag

New York

  • The most beautiful buildings in the world

    Tweet One of the things I love about travelling is seeing different buildings; even though we have some astonishing architecture in London, and I grew up here and have seen so many fabulous changes…

    June 10, 2015
  • My top 10 family things to do in New York

    Tweet In one of the episodes of the final season of Friends, when Monica and Chandler announce they’re moving out of New York because they don’t want to raise kids in the city, Rachel…

    February 9, 2015
  • Win goodies from Macy’s New York

    Tweet So as you know when I was in the Big Apple the week before last I was treated to a guided tour of Macy’s New York. My guide, John, has worked at Macy’s for…

    February 1, 2015
  • Top 10 Family Travel destinations 2015 part 2

    Tweet So, apologies for being a teeny bit late with the rest of my Top 10 family travel destinations for 2015 – I was slightly waylaid by watching back to back episodes of Breaking…

    January 16, 2015
  • Like the Brady Bunch, but not

    Tweet I tend not to talk very much on the blog or indeed elsewhere about being a single parent, mainly because I feel like a bit of a fraud; Man of the House has…

    June 5, 2013
  • My Top 10 luxury hotels of the world

    Tweet Anyone who knows me knows that I am definitely a Princess. Yes, I can feel that pea under any number of mattresses. I like sheets with high-thread counts, indulgent pampering products in the…

    May 14, 2013
  • The One with the wrinkle-free skin

    Tweet I was about 13 when this photo was taken – we were on our first trip to Canada and the US, and having had a brilliant time in Toronto and New York, we’d…

    April 17, 2013
  • In praise of the Mums Only holiday

    Tweet No 1 Son was about 18 months old when I was asked to go on a work trip abroad for the first time. There were two reasons I didn’t feel I could turn…

    April 11, 2013
  • Sex and the City perfume review

    Tweet If I think of New York – and I really do love it there, it’s one of my favourite cities in the world – I guess the first smell that springs to mind…

    August 7, 2012