[Slideshow — if slides do not advance, click here] TIME AGAIN FOR THE FAVOURITE: 30 Images of Inspiration — although this week,...
Be sure to visit the Blue Lagoon — a spa, but also, a whole other world, really. One can easily spend a day rejuvenating with a number of special treatments, enjoy the lovely dining, and of course, nature. One can learn about the wonders of geothermal seawater, lava fields nearby, and more.
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” —Norman Vincent Peale
AND IN ALL THE EXCITEMENT had barely realised that November had slipped into a new month, and hadn’t the chance to...
A CHRISTMAS CAROUSEL has only just been set up in St. Andrews Square, and have already visited a few times,...
TWO LOVELY THINGS : freshly fallen snow and a tabletop straight out of a fairytale winter wonderland, with whites and creams...
PERHAPS A LITTLE CHILLY but exceptionally beautiful nonetheless, like a fairytale with snow queens and ice princesses — isn’t...
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?“
. . . winter seems to have arrived late this, and despite the days becoming noticeably longer everyday, everywhere...
. . . and to begin the week, a few moments of calm, of flowers and breakfast, hand-written notes...
. . . january is a month for clean slates and fresh starts, and no matter cliché, as it...
. . . and it’s off for a beautiful few days to exchange work for play [with the exception, perhaps,...
. . . and with everything that has been happening, [nearly all at once], lately, there has been little time...
For many, it is the—the dream to travel abroad and to walk the very grounds in which were walked upon...
An alabaster, wintry frost hardly seems like the warmest of welcomes, but the magic of the icy snow that glistens...