Taking Home a Piece of Culture: Collecting Poetry Books
Collecting mementos from my travels is one of my favourite ways to relive my adventures, and share them with my loved ones, and a firm favourite way of mine to treasure those special trips is by collecting poetry books in the country’s native language. It’s something that I’ve done since…
Vol V: Couture Week & a Trip to the Cinema
Like every fashion girlie I have spent the past seven days poring over couture collections on Vogue and fangirling over design details from Simone Rocha and John Galliano. I absolutely loved all of the feminine elements in the Simone Rocha for Jean Paul Gaultier collection, as it mirrors my own…
Portuguese Girl: The Sustainable Edit
The style, known as ‘Portuguese Girl’ across social media, popularised by girlies across Western Europe wearing such fun colours, prints, patterns and shapes, is such an eclectic, bright style. Over-sized collars, clashing prints, embroidered pieces, with gorgeous cardigans and vests to layer on top, are some of the iconic parts…
Vol IV: A Meditation Retreat & A Time to Reflect
I had a really mindful weekend this week; on Saturday I attended a beginners’ meditation retreat at Kadampa Meditation Centre, focused on learning the very basics of how to enter the state of meditation, which was pretty fascinating! My mom and I learnt about the importance of breath, or any…
Three Months With Only Hand Luggage (& My South-East Asia Packing List!)
I would say that I’ve always been quite a light packer, but travelling for three months around south-east Asia with only hand luggage really pushed my packing abilities to the extreme. Not only did I have to fit enough clothing, toiletries and other bits and bobs for three months into…
