The Daydreamer Goes To: Tower of London

Imagine a river of red, winding its way round the bottom of an old, iconic stone building. On closer inspection, the illusion of a river is actually an enormous cluster of individual ceramic poppies planted in the moat of the Tower of London.  Once complete, there will be 888,246 poppies, each one representation of a… View Post

The Daydreamer Goes To: Hotel Metropole Monte Carlo

  As you can probably guess from the photo above, the food at Hotel Metropole was deeee-lish! My favourite meal was Sunday night at Joel Robuchon, where we enjoyed fois gras (so good but, morally, I did feel a bit wrong eating it), octopus (done beautifully, but not really my cup of tea) and quail with… View Post

The Daydreamer Goes To: Hotel Metropole, Monaco

Imagine another world, a foreign planet, a bubble where life is good and easy, where even mundane, every day activities are a joy: driving is made more than comfortable thanks to cars with leather seats, tinted windows and a driver; eating is exciting because the food bursts with flavour and is cooked to perfection by… View Post

The Daydreamer Goes To: Monaco

Here are some Monaco snaps! It’s a beautiful place with a distinct ‘French Riviera’ vibe, but the people are what up the ante. Their clothes, their cars, their attitudes – all rich beyond belief.  Above: the back of the famous casino  The cave before rounding the corner to the Palace    Above: Did you know… View Post

Travel in Style

  Tomorrow I’ll be sharing my Hotel Metropole Monte Carlo experience with you, but today is all about the Heli Air Monaco helicopter transfer from Nice airport to Monte Carlo (and back). I’ve never been in a helicopter before so I was a little nervous about the flight. I needn’t have been – it was… View Post