bondi to coogee

You may have noticed from the slight change of theme of my instagrams - soooo much turquoise! - that I've been living on the other side of the world for the last few months! And as I predicted, living in Sydney is pretty lush. I miss London and having Europe on my doorstep but I'm lapping up all this Southern Hemisphere gorgeousness whilst I'm here. I am way waaayy behind on travel blog posts, so for the time being I'm just going to share some snaps of the Bondi to Coogee coastal walk taken after work recently at the end of a very hot day. It still kinda blows my mind that these crazy gorgeous beaches are just a short bus ride away from the city centre. This walk is one of my favourite ever things, and a must-do for anyone visiting Sydney! 

Photos - iPhone 6 + vsco cam.

oxford in the spring

A lovely spring weekend in Oxford. The loveliest wedding, the prettiest buildings and the pinkest blossom. So happy that Spring is finally here. Let's just pretend like it's not all grey and gloomy outside today, yeah?! 

Photos - iPhone 5 + vsco cam. 

the french alps | la rosiere

The end of January was spent at the top of the French Alps, surrounded by fluffy snow, incredible scenery, cheese & wine and a lovely lovely bunch of friends. It had been waaaay too long since I'd last been skiing. And it was amazing! I'd had a mega cough over Christmas and the new year which resulted in a nasty bout of costochondritis over January and was on all the pain killers at the start... but it's kinda magic how quickly a bit of mountain air can fix you up! It was one of the most snowy ski holidays I've ever been on, sooooooo much snow. Which made for a few pretty cloudy ski days, but then some of the prettiest mountain scenes ever ever. La Rosière was beautiful, and here are a few of my favourite snaps.

Photos - iPhone 5 + vsco cam.  

croatia | hvar

The last of the Croatia photos, finally! I'd been to Hvar before; it's ridiculously pretty and lovely so was more than happy to go back. But this time we got to explore more, I saw different parts of the island, did boat trips to some other islands nearby, and saw some ridiculously breath-taking lagoons. It was lush. This part of the holiday was all about seafood, swimming in the sea, relaxing and loads of fun. If you've never been to Croatia before, and get the opportunity to go, then take it. It's magical. 

croatia | mljet

We went to Mljet National Park as a day trip from Dubrovnik. A bus, a ferry and a couple of mountain bikes and we were surrounded by the most beautiful lakes and gorgeous green scenery. This place is stunning. It's also totally worth the pretty steep cycle ride from Polače to get there, as cycling round the lakes was not only super fun but also a great way to take in as much scenery as possible and find the nicest swimming spots! Quite possibly the clearest water I've ever ever swam in! 

Photos - mixture of lumix DLSR and iPhone 5 + vsco cam.  

croatia love

Just over a week ago I got back from an amazing, beautiful and ridiculously fun holiday in Croatia, and ever since then things have been crazy hectic go go gooooo! So I'm just gonna look at these photos and pretend like I'm bobbing about in crystal clear turquoise water under the adriatic sun for a while, okay? 

I'll be back soon with more photos and a few of my holiday highlights!  

Photos - iPhone 5 + vsco cam. 

this was whitstable

You guys, have you been to Whitstable?! Well you should go. Claire was back from Syndey (yay!) at the beginning of July so we had a girly reunion long weekend by the seaside. And it was lush. We had scorching hot sunshine, and a bit of drizzle; a perfect English weekend. We hired a cottage and had so much fun, and we all wore flower crowns a lot of the time, because, why not eh?! Whitstable is full of adorable cottages, oysters, lovely pubs, pebbly beaches, vintage shops, fish & chips and general gorgeousness. It was much more trendy than I was expecting, but overall still had a pretty olden times harbour side vibe. And it's only about an hour from London. Go! 

photos - iPhone 5 + vsco cam. 

this was good friday

Pretty much every four-day Easter weekend I go down to the Jurassic Coast in Dorset for a little holiday with a load of family and friends, and I’m talking 70+ people! It has become a bit legendary and gets bigger and better each year. This year was the 25th anniversary, and so we celebrated at sunset at the top of a cliff, with speeches, champagne, fairy lights, bunting, sparklers, a bonfire, singing, fireworks and a whole lot of love. It might just have been one of the prettiest and most magical nights of my life!

I hope you all had lovely Easter weekends! I'm hoping to get back to more regular blogging soon, I have a few fun projects on at the mo which are eating up all my free time, but feel like I have so much to share on here so will be back soon! 

Photos - iPhone 5 + vsco cam. 

photographer | emily blincoe

I’ve long admired the work of Emily Blincoe through her gorgeous instagram stream. Her creativity, her amazing imagination and brilliant eye shine through in her photographs and I just love everything about them. I somehow only just discovered her vsco grid though, which is of course completely gorgeous as well as being varied and really fun!. I think her photographs are so super inspiring, I could probably look at them them for hours, so just wanted to share a few of my faves here…

I love the use of colour, styling and creativity. This grid is definitely one of my favourites at the moment! 

Let me know if you have a VSCO grid so I can follow along!
+ You can see my VSCO grid here. 

portobello road

Last weekend I had both my sisters staying, and in the few hours of sunshine we got on the Sunday, between the storms, we headed to Portobello Road in Notting Hill. I hadn't been for ages so it was lovely to have a wander around. We mooched through the market stalls, treated ourselves to cupcakes for later, bought daffodils and blood oranges, and ate yummy falafel on our way down the road. We really did luck out with the weather because the skies opened up just as we were getting back on the tube. It was a pretty gorgeous and colourful few hours though! 

Photos - iPhone 5 + vsco cam.

*One of my instagrams from this day was chosen for the first #sfgirlguide round up - yeah!