The Fat Issue

Fat has been a bit of a buzzword lately, and a late night Twitter conversation with @VickyChandler from lotsofloveme.com, got me thinking. What with the #fatkini hashtag storming Instagram, fat memes popping up everywhere,… Continue reading

Coding Clothes

My timelines are currently full of images of this top, along with comments criticizing and questioning Spanish fashion retailer, Zara’s sense and sensitivity.  Word on the street is that this top for children… Continue reading

Graduates, Welcome to the ‘Real World’

Congratulations graduates and welcome to this fun and exciting place called The Real World. Sounds scary, huh? It involves a job and responsibility and god knows what else. Definitely not what you lazy… Continue reading

Roadtrip Diaries: Route 66

For some, Route 66 is the definitive American road trip. Please, for us it’s a tiny part. Not that I’d argue that with any of the bikers studding the road at frequent intervals.… Continue reading

Roadtrip Diaries: New Orleans

9-11 June My first real awareness of New Orleans’ existence was concurrent with Katrina, whereby my headmistress at school recounted her visit a few years previously and how important it was that we… Continue reading

Roadtrip Diaries: Texas Fact Time

1. As any Texan (it’s virtually state law to mention it once a day) will tell you the moment you mention size of anything at all, ‘everything is bigger in texas’. It’s true.… Continue reading

Eating America

One of the things that excited me the most about this road trip was the prospect of food. I even had a list of the all the different things I wanted to eat,… Continue reading

Roadtrip Diaries: Nashville Living

June 6-8 I absolutely love Nashville and indeed Tennessee in general. The moment we entered the state, the landscape seemed to be greener, healthier and lusher, although the driving in Tennessee is bad.… Continue reading

Roadtrip Diaries: Not So Sweet Home Alabama

8th June It is a long drive from Nashville to New Orleans. It is with this I defend our decision to stay in the cheapest Motel 6 we could find, just outside Birmingham,… Continue reading

Roadtrip Diaries: Atlanta vs Atlantis

June 5-6 Storm warnings thrown at us from all directions, England inclusive, a bit of rain was hardly unexpected. What we didn’t expect, however, was how impeccable our timing would be. Aware of… Continue reading

Roadtrip Diaries: Georgia on my Mind

June 4-5 Similar to Charleston in terms of style and to an extent, history, Savannah has more personality and feels lived in. After setting up the tent in yet another, albeit far busier… Continue reading

Roadtrip Diaries: Charleston

June 3-4 We arrived at our Charleston campsite in one piece, an achievement I’m actually quite proud of as I drove for the first time. Everyone alive is always a good result. After… Continue reading

Roadtrip Diaries: Problem, Houston?

I am well aware that this is totally out of chronological order and I have skipped a week; they will be posted soon but finding Wi-Fi here in Texas ain’t all that easy. … Continue reading

Roadtrip Diaries: Myrtle Beach

June 2-3 The journey to Myrtle Beach was a fairly substantial seven hours. After craving Taco Bell for a full two weeks, we had a pit stop and to my horror I could… Continue reading

Roadtrip Diaries: Lazing in Virginia

May 30th- June 2nd After successfully locating me and leaving DC, we made a stop at a shopping mall in part for sunglasses after Jeff lost his previous pair but mainly to source… Continue reading