From discovering old things to give new life to finding newness in the way we dress or decorate, vintage shopping in a different city often gives me fresh styling for thought. Brussels is bureaucratic yet bizarre, self-confident yet unshowy, and one of my favourite...
I celebrated my 40th in Antwerp, where I received a much more appealing midlife vintage Jaguar - this 70s silver necklace found at the Sint-Jansvliet street market. This was my first of a few favourites for vintage & antiques in Antwerp. From Art Nouveau...
I like to get the mood of a new place via the vintage scene, and Lisbon did not disappoint. I had my list - the flea market, a bunch of vintage and pre-loved fashion shops and an antique shop that specialised in tiles. Of course, I discovered other places that made my...
I have yet to attempt to encapsulate the London vintage shopping scene for the same reason I have not written a Paris guide (until now): the choice is intimidating. It is impossible to enjoyably squeeze even these twelve recs into the length of a usual city break, so...
Once nicknamed Little Paris, Koukaki is the neighbourhood I was lucky to call home for my recent visit to Athens. Little did I know that its ode to Paris for me would uncover 70s Saint Laurent and 80s Celine. Once an industrial district named after the founder of an...
There is nothing like a good research session to get one in the mood. I like to seek out the eco fashion and decor offering when I visit a new city, but hopefully I can skip you to the main event with my shares from Edinburgh. Sustainable secondhand usually...
Had I not already left my heart in San Francisco in 2015 when I met the man I would marry seven months later, Love Street Vintage would have stolen it. Sustainable gems are dotted in many neighbourhoods, but High on a hill, Haight Street calls if you are after a...
The upside to taking a train to Córdoba on a Monday and realising many of the monuments and markets are closed is you get to really enjoy the neighbourhoods. We still got to explore the western world’s most stunning example of Moorish art, the Mezquita and the Roman...
Nobody wants to feel like a tourist. Who us? No no, we’re trailblazers - so you can imagine our surprise when we discovered our destination of choice is Lonely Planet’s No.1 city to visit in 2018. If like me you have to work through some guilt before enjoying your...
My husband and I suffered a bout of food poisoning this week, but off he went to his conference in Brussels and off I went to join him for the weekend. Since completing the Six Items Challenge for Labour Behind the Label I have been conscious to wear more of my...
I just visited Athens, city of marble for the first time. The Greek side of my husband's family visited us in London before we all headed to a big fat Greek wedding in Athens. I'll keep references to that film brief, but it's been a running joke since my first dinner...