Sarah Phillips

Tonight we're welcoming another guest to our lovely London flat. This friend is around our tenth person to come stay since we arrived in the UK, and after hosting ten people, and spending a year trave...

Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Probably not if you're in the midst of beers at the beach! As a Kiwi, the concept of a white Christmas is about as foreign as it gets, but here are some reasons ...

A friend recently visited me in London. We talked on and off for weeks about what we could do while she was here. One of the things that topped our "to-do" list was a traditional British "Afternoon Te...

I'm a big fan of Airbnb—you may have seen my 2017 post about the Airbnb hosts I enjoyed visiting the most during our whirlwind year abroad. In 2018 my husband and I decided we needed to settle down fo...

2017 was the year for me, along with my doting husband, to stretch our legs and explore the world. We visited an atlas-full of places, witnessed a camera-full of things, and met an address book (OK, F...

This winter a little bit of China popped up in the heart of Scotland. So, to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year, and rounding out the end of my time in Scotland, I couldn't resist checking out th...