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The minotaurs aren’t real, the minotaurs aren’t real

December 22, 2016by Alex Leave a comment

He scrawls his number on a card. “You have trouble, you call me, Alexandra.” (The Greeks love my name.) “Just call,” he urges, eyes crinkling around the edges.

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London, travel

White Islands

September 16, 2016by Alex Leave a comment

Have I said this before? How wonderfully disorientating I find it to land in a foreign place after dark, not knowing what to expect when you wake the next day…

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London, travel

Lions, tigers and goddamn dragons.

February 12, 2016by Alex Leave a comment

You know you’ve done it right when the waitress eyes off the table speculatively and then has to strategically remove the sugar bowl to accomodate all of your food.

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London, travel

Boom

December 14, 2015by Alex Leave a comment

I turned 30 last month. I finally admitted, under duress and in the face of unyeilding mathematics and biology, that I’m not a kid anymore.

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London

Eyes up, boys!

October 8, 2015by Alex 1 Comment

The day starts properly when Chandler, goofing around, cuts his face on the salt of his giant pretzel and bleeds on it. The first injury of the day — and there will be many.

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London, travel

“What the f— is Ushuaïa?”

September 13, 2015by Alex Leave a comment

Say what you like about wealthy Moroccan nightclub-managing, boat-owning party boys, but their hosting etiquette does their mothers proud.

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London, travel

#NeverSleep

September 7, 2015by Alex Leave a comment

This… this is how all Friday’s should look.

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travel

Duck, duck, haggis

September 2, 2015by Alex 2 Comments

Which involves a little bit of Harry Potter and a little bit of Jane Austen.

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travel

What time is it where you are?

September 2, 2015by Alex Leave a comment

It’s only in typing this post out that I realise I might just be a little homesick.

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London

Cucumber gin & blazers in the west; vodka & grit in East London.

July 12, 2015by Alex Leave a comment

At Henley, as at Ascot, the spectrum of different British classes are laid out like a rainbow. If I was on the very royal Violet end of that rainbow Ascot, I’m towards the cheap and cheerful Red end for Henley

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  • Let’s float, lets glide
  • Scorpion tornados.
  • There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".
  • What intoxicating vanity
  • The Isle Is full Of Noises.

Thought for the week

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." - George Bernard Shaw

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