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Japanese Canteen, Bethnal Green
FROM THE LAND OF THE RISING SUNTO THE CITY WHERE THERE'S BARELY SOME*_______________________Q: What do you call 3 days of rain?A:Â Bank Holiday weekend.Seriously though, what are our chances of sunshine...
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Better Sleep With Leesa
Move over, Uber: I've found a better ride to Dreamland thanks to my new bedfellow and she doesn't even turn up the Magic FM to drown out my primeval grunts and gargles. You see, I suffer enjoy this...
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A SHOT At Good Health
or, How Diabetes Changed My LifeA CAUTIONARY TALE OF MY BRUSH WITH MORTALITY_______Graphic working title, isn't it? Although it pales in comparison to my doctor's grim diagnosis as she handed me the...
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My Perfumes & the Travels They Evoke
What a suggestive force smell is. It's this sense with all its Pavlovian powers that makes me want to instantly disrobe and lie face down in anticipation of a massage whenever I catch the spa-like...
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Of Solitude & Fortitude
I ESCAPED A VICIOUS 2 YEAR CYCLE OF FEAR, DOUBT, & HURT - AND YOU CAN, TOOWarning, this post may contain triggers.You’d think a reasonably intelligent woman like me would have known when to call it...
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Personal Finance: Why I have 4 Barclays bank accounts
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THE‘FANTASTIC FOUR’You might hesitate to take tips on personal finance from someone who proudly, even if erroneously, proclaims themselves ‘broke’ upon first impression (anyone...
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Royal Ascot : What To Wear at The Royal Enclosure
That's how one sometimes feels when mulling over their sartorial choices for Royal Ascot. The Royal Enclosure dress code can be a sartorial minefield what with the 'fashion police' on high alert for...
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The Lobby Bar & Indigo at One Aldwych, Covent Garden
TWO LUXURY LOVERS, ONE ALDYWCHOh, the Strand - that stretch of London spanning Trafalgar Square to the City limits, where every horror story you've ever heard about London traffic (both the...
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Chai Wu: Luxury Chinese cuisine at Harrods
When elements combine & form a contemporary yet classic culinary experienceWHAT: A FIRST CLASS TICKET TO CHINESE & PAN-ASIAN CUISINEWHERE: CHAI WU, HARRODS FIFTH FLOOR, KNIGHTSBRIDGEI have a...
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Fendi Flowerland & Keukenhof
        WHAT: KEUKENHOF FLOWER GARDEN WHERE: Lisse, South Holland. WHEN: mid March - mid MayThere's nothing more quintessentially Dutch as the national flower of The Netherlands - the tulip. The...
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clueQuest: Revenge Of The Sheep (giveaway!)
WITH MY INGLOURIOUS BAAAAAH-STERDS AT CLUEQUEST: REVENGE OF THE SHEEPÂ It's official - should the end be nigh, it's neither the Rick Grimes nor the Batmans (Batmen?) of the world who will swoop in to...
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Arriving at The W Amsterdam
HERITAGE & HAUTE MEET IN AMSTERDAM AT THE UBER-HIP NEW W HOTELOn Wednesday I arrived in Amsterdam to one of my favourite homes away from homes - W Hotels. As I did in Saint Petersburg, Russia, I...
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3 Luxury Restaurants To Try In Amsterdam
3 LUXURY RESTAURANTS TO TRY IN AMSTERDAM__________________________Whether you've got the munchies or are just plain ravenous from tip-toeing through the tulips, if you're seeking a gastronomical...
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Does my (travel) privilege look big in this?
FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS - #TRAVELBLOGGERS EDITIONaka 7 Reasons Not to Date a Blogger or "You don't have to be a masochist to work here, but it helps"STOP THE PRESS! We have a more urgent issue to discuss....
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Arty Amsterdam: 5 Must-See Museums
SWOOP IN ON THESE FIVE AMSTERDAM MUSEUMS YOU CAN'T MISSThe four things you must do in Amsterdam is to tiptoe through the tulips at Keukenhof, check in at the uber-hip new W Hotel, enjoy these...
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Mad Mattes
SEVEN SHADES OF (MATTE LIP) HEAVENÂ BYÂ NYX, SLEEK,& MAC CHARLOTTE OLYMPIAI've been told by men and women alike that my lips are one of my best facial features. Perhaps it's the polite thing to say...
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The Society Club, Cheshire Street
 FROM SOHO TO SHOREDITCH: WHY THIS LONDON LITERARY SALON IS MY FAVOURITE READING ROOM"If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t f**k them. Don’t sleep with people who don’t read!"...
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Something new, something old
RECLAIMING MY SPACE WITH ANOTHER BEDROOM REFRESH___________Â You may have gandered from my web absence (websence?) of last week that I've been somewhat indisposed. And how. What a week it was: between...
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Myki Sand Bar - Archer Street, Soho
LIFE'S A BEACH: THE LAUNCH OFÂ MYKI SAND BAR AT ARCHER STREET, SOHO"The place to be in summer is London, second only to being anywhere but London."So says the fashionably jaded Londoner who "ohmahgad, I...
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35 New Cavendish Street, Marylebone
A MARYLEBONE MEMBERS CLUB WITH A MENU UNDER £20The Cavendish at 35 New Cavendish Street, FitzroviaDespite the average champagne socialist's assertions that the antiquated class system (caste system?)...
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