Tag: Lifestyle & Travel

  • Travel | Kensington Palace

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    Just a quick little travel photo diary today of my recent to trip to Kensington Palace with a friend of mine last Saturday morning. I’m actually shocked it’s taken me this long to actually visit considering I’ve lived in the UK my entire life, but it was so worth a wander before having a proper catch up with my friend over hefty amounts of Italian food and coffee in Soho later on.

    Thoughts from the day

    : – I am likely exactly the same height Queen Victoria was for the entirety of the her reign – fingers crossed I don’t end up as the same weight as her at the end of her reign

    : – The British monarch is full of incestuous history – and it’s probably a good thing William’s married outside of the blue blooded legacy (too many illnesses, too little time to elaborate)

    : – Catherine Walker’s designs are just as stunning up close as they were in some of the most recognisable pap snaps. The Fashion Rules exhibition was running when we ventured down and as always I got very excited at the prospect of seeing proper couture up close. Walker’s designs for the late Lady Di are seriously stunning.

    : – I can’t take King George III seriously anymore – not that I could take the Mad King seriously anyway but now I can only picture this gif of Jonathan Groff prancing about Kensington singing You’ll Be Back *shakes fist at Hamilton*

    : – The King’s staircase is seriously overcompensating for something – especially compared to the Queen’s, which is still beautiful but is a tasteful exercise in self control for interior design

    Ria

  • Wanderlust | Run Away With Me

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    Have you noticed most of the so-called great road trip movies all star men as their leads? With the exception of the frankly brilliant ‘Thelma and Louise’, the more recent ‘Wild’ and possibly Crossroads – though I question the quality of that film (despite the fact that Not A Girl (Not Yet A Woman) is an a m a z i n g song), I can’t actually think of any more.

    “…I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…”

    – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

    I am obsessed with Sylvia Plath quote. There’s a small pipe dream that makes me want to live out this fantasy of dropping everything and hitchhiking my way around the world. ‘So, why don’t you do it then, Ria?’ Well…Job? Money? Visas? Logistics? Safety? The later is my biggest pet peeve (but I’ll leave my feminist rants on that for another day).

    But there’s just something about that romanticised imagery of the long, winding and empty road. The dirt trail kicking up behind you and the sun rising over the horizon line in plain sight. Or the sprawling city of a million people and a million stories just waiting to be discovered down alleyways, tucked away in side streets or hidden in the corner of coffee shops and bodegas.
    Sometimes you wonder whether you’ll see any of that. Whether you’ll experience the same elation, the same rush they so eloquently communicated in the pages of their journals so many years ago.

    Maybe one day I’ll take a leap of faith into the unknown.

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    *image via Unsplash

    Or maybe I’ll just settle for living vicariously through Instagram and Pinterest photos for now…or I could rewatch Thelma and Louise again.

    Ria

  • Top 5 Friday | Female Fronted Podcasts

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    We seem to be in a renaissance period for podcasts (though I was admittedly ahead of the curve when I was a teenager listening to the likes of Pottercast and Mugglecast! *woah hipster alert!*). Partly thanks to the running success of Serial, podcasts seems like they’re more popular than ever. Podcasting like most forms of media still seem to be dominated by the male voices, but sometimes you just have to look under the radar and there’s a whole host of amazing women literally running their own shows. So here’s a rundown of female fronted podcasts you should really be listening to right now.

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