Find What You Love

May 16, 2018 Leave a Comment

There’s a saying which goes “find what you love and do more of it” and as we got back from our road trip around France my soul was once again soothed having spent the past week doing just that. Sure, by the time we got home it was dark, I was sweaty and I’m pretty sure […]

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WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!

March 27, 2018 Leave a Comment

The month was June, the day was Tuesday and I was spending it with Nikki as she was in England for a short while. As we walked along the Thames, my phone rang. “Hello Amy, it’s Annabelle, just calling to let you know that the vendor has accepted your offer”. I stopped dead in my […]

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A Day In The Life

March 25, 2018 Leave a Comment

I’ve never done one of these “day in the life” posts before. Mainly because I’m forgetful and forget to remember every little thing I’m up to, but also because I’m sure that there are a lot of times where my life is interesting for me, but not my readers. (Unless that’s wrong in which case […]

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Currently: The 2018 Edition

March 24, 2018 Leave a Comment

In 2014 I wrote a list. This list to be exact.   I thought it would be a good way to capture what it was I was feeling in that moment without spilling my metaphorical guts onto the internet. When I published that post I was exhausted from working ridiculous hours in an industry I […]

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Recognising Travel Privilege

March 22, 2018 Leave a Comment

I love blogging, I love travelling – so the fact that travel blogging exists makes my heart incredibly happy. I’m able to read about adventures from all of the metaphorical corners of the globe, whilst sitting in my blanket with a cup of English Breakfast Tea. I’m able to discover people’s stories and learn about […]

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My Favourite Travel Buddy

March 20, 2018 Leave a Comment

This is S.     If you’ve been on my blog before there’s a 85% chance that you’ve seen his face, and if you haven’t here’s another picture.     Cute, eh?   His real name is Sam, but to be honest I’ve been calling him S on here for such a long time that […]

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How Lara Croft Helped Me Realise That Representation Matters

March 18, 2018 Leave a Comment

On the 8th of this month I wrote a post dedicated to women. (You can find it here if you missed it). And in that post I mentioned that I didn’t really have a role model growing up. My exact words were: “I didn’t grow up with any female role models. The closest thing I […]

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Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself…

March 16, 2018 Leave a Comment

My name is Hov’ (oh) H-to-the-O-V. It’s not really. It’s Amy. This is me. Some of you may already know this, some of you may not. But whilst I was doing some blog maintenance earlier I noticed that there were more people hanging round these internet parts than usual, so I thought I’d pop together […]

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Why Rest Is Important

March 15, 2018 Leave a Comment

The importance of rest is a subject I am well versed in. Ask S. He’ll tell you (much to his annoyance) that I’m a total champ when it comes to sleep. Sidenote: S would say that technically that sentence should say that I “used to be” because throughout March I’ve been blogging everyday and haven’t […]

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International Women’s Day: An Ode To Women

March 8, 2018 Leave a Comment

When I opened my laptop earlier today to start a new blogpost, I was intending to write about a day trip that I took. But the more I’ve been staring at my keyboard, the more I realise that I don’t want to talk about where I travelled to, I want to talk about the people […]

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Why I Decided To Blog Everyday For A Month

March 2, 2018 Leave a Comment

At the beginning of the year I sat down with a Google spreadsheet (forgive me Paperchase, for I have sinned) and I wrote down everything that I wanted to achieve with this blog. It wasn’t until I had finished typing and looked back at my handiwork, that I realised that not a single one of […]

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How Travel Ignited My Burnout Recovery

January 14, 2018 10 Comments

Fatigue, migraines, loss of appetite and an immune system which betrayed my, previously celebrated, record of minimal sick days. It was official. Burnout had caught me in its exhaustive clutch.   Anxiety which I previously only felt in awkward social situations crept into other areas of my life and contaminated spaces where I usually had […]

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Motorcycle Trip: Kent To Reims

June 20, 2017 20 Comments

Day one of riding around France was a long one. The day started with us waking up exceptionally early, packing up the panniers and me swinging my leg over before we rode off into the sunrise… Kind of. And by kind of, I mean that that story may have included a slight lie because the […]

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My Shop Is Live!

May 20, 2017 13 Comments

Is it possible to be dead and alive at the same time?     This is the question I find myself asking myself (because we’re all totally guilty of talking to ourselves amirite?) as I lay in the bath soaking away the stress of a weeks worth of 2am bedtimes, and as I lay there […]

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An Ode To Blogger Boyfriends

January 20, 2017 20 Comments

We don’t take advantage of you as much as the internet says we do but you are our handbag-holding, angle-finding photo-taking saviours. You’re more than an assistant but do way less work than a business partner. You listen to us talk about flat lays, SEO, WordPress themes, helpful plugins and ERMAGEEEEHD SO AND SO JUST LEFT […]

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Get Ready…

January 12, 2017 13 Comments

“2017 is going to be my year” Is a sentence I’ve muttered to myself more over these past twelve days than I should probably admit. But 2017 is already off to a pretty solid start so I really don’t care how cliche I am. I spent the first week of the year bed-bound and full of flu which […]

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My First Tattoo

January 5, 2017 17 Comments

Think before you ink. It’s a mantra I have been repeating to myself for years. Not because I’m particularly afraid of committing to having something which will be on me for the rest of my life, but more because when you choose to get something which will be on you for the rest of your […]

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A New Year

January 2, 2017 22 Comments

  As the car door slammed and the stones grinded beneath my feet as I made my way out of the carpark I took a deep breath. For today was the day I would finally make it to the top of Kingley Vale.   I probably should have picked a better day for it to […]

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Focus

December 14, 2016 14 Comments

As I sit here writing this I’m laying on my bed cocooned in a duvet burrito and a feeling of utter bliss. There will be no pictures of that because with the exception of all the fucking swearing I do, this is a (relatively) family friendly blog, but the reason for those happy feelings of contentedness is not because […]

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Perception

November 29, 2016 12 Comments

Perception is a funny thing. If you’re new here you may have missed this post which I wrote back when it wasn’t minus ridiculous degrees. If you don’t have time to read it, it was a personal post I wrote about being vulnerable, growing up and the emotions which accompany both and I honestly didn’t expect […]

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Body Confidence

October 3, 2016 15 Comments

Words can heal, words can inspire, words can defend, and words can unite. But when the words you are hearing are; “You alright there fried eggs” “You’d look so pretty if you didn’t have that wonky tooth” “Wheyyy, check out those thunder thighs” Words can hurt. Words hurt so much more than people realise, and […]

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