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Introducing Alice & Co PATTERNS

Friday 13 July 2018 by where2wearit

Dust off your sewing machine and sharpen your scissors our first Alice & Co PATTERNS are ready to download.! A partnership with my daughter Lilia who is a costume mounter at the V&A museum. Our airy Komodo Triangle dress can be made in a jiffy perfect for the current hot weather. Still on a hot theme, if you’re a fan of Frida Kahlo and her exotic Mexican style you can make yourself a ‘huipil’ – the top she loved to […]

Categories: Art, Cities, Exhibitions, fashion, London, Morocco, UK City Breaks, Uncategorized • Tags: Alice & Co Patterns, V&A MUSEUM FRIDA KAHLO LONDON

Street style in Valparaiso, Chile

Wednesday 21 March 2018 by where2wearit

Valparaiso in central Chile is inconveniently sprinkled across a series of steep ravines running down to the port and bay. Skipping up and down the stepped alleys to and from the city centre turns every journey into a gym class. However, I discover that if you stay on Calle Hector Calvo in the up and coming boho barrio of Bellavista, which is home to the Museo a Cielo Abierto (Museum of the Open Sky), you don’t need to go far […]

Categories: Art, Cities, fashion, South America, Uncategorized

ANTARCTICA HERE I COME!

Monday 26 February 2018 by where2wearit

Thursday afternoon and I’m in the bar on the top deck of the good ship Akademik Sergey Vavilov enjoying a nice cup of tea. On the horizon there’s a menthol blue iceberg as majestic as a cathedral, while close by a family of snoozing crabeater seals drifts past on their own private ice-raft. It’s a great opportunity to continue writing my where2wearit blog which offers travel tips from made-to-measure experts Alice & Co. My globetrotting travel writing partner, who has […]

Categories: Antarctica, fashion, South America, Uncategorized • Tags: Antarctica, icebergs, Merino wool, Penguins, wet weather kit

Alice & Co trip 2018 to the Falkands Antartica and South America

In pursuit of penguins

Sunday 11 February 2018 by where2wearit

Winter is itchy feet time for me and this year I’m heading about as far south as a person can go to have a look at the icebergs of Antarctica before heading north up the west side of South America for some Latino culture and warmth. It’s also a great opportunity to continue my where2wearit blog which offers travel tips from made-to-measure experts Alice & Co. My starting point is the windy Falkland Islands deep in the chilly South Atlantic. […]

Categories: fashion, Islands, South America, Uncategorized, Walks • Tags: Falkland Islands, fashion, Istanbul, Penguins, Sealions, Seals, Sewing, Stanley, Sweaters

Alice relaxing in kimono Nihiwatu Sumba Indonesia

Sumba – an exotic Indonesian island of worms and horses!

Saturday 24 June 2017 by where2wearit

When my travel writer partner told me about an island where people eat worms and charge about on tinsel-decorated ponies hurling spears at each other I thought he was having me on – but no, he was describing the magical Indonesian island of Sumba which has inspired me to design a simple travel kimono – find out why below and click here to download the pattern. Just an hour’s flight southeast from Bali, Sumba feels a world away with a […]

Categories: Horseriding, Indonesia, Islands, Spa, Uncategorized • Tags: beach riding, Nihiwatu, Pasola, Religious festivals, Spa, Sumba

Sailing and dragon hunting in Indonesia!

Tuesday 16 May 2017 by where2wearit

For the next few days of our three month ‘avoiding the British winter’ adventure we board the good ship Alexa and take to the high seas and the Komodo National Park. This is easily reached on an hour-long flight from Bali east to Labuan Bajo. This protected wilderness is a fabulous spot to go snorkelling and diving as the corals here still sport their glorious Technicolor as they have not been bleached out. Plus you get to see the unique […]

Categories: fashion, Islands, Sailing, Uncategorized

Arty New Zealand

Friday 14 April 2017 by where2wearit

Being something of a bookworm, I always like to read an author relevant to my travels. So down in Wellington, at the southern tip of New Zealand’s North Island, it has to be Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) – her pithy short stories are brilliant for all those hanging about moments inevitable when you’re on the road. Her childhood home in Tinakori Street has been turned into a delightful museum of domestic life in the last years of the 19th century. Katherine […]

Categories: Art, Cities, fashion, Islands, New Zealand, Uncategorized

Kinetic New Zealand

Saturday 8 April 2017 by where2wearit

There’s more to New Zealand than sport and sheep! And I’m off down the Forgotten World Highway in the North Island to prove it. A scenic five-hour drive west from Taupo – where I’m visiting my sister and her family – lands me in New Plymouth, capital of the Taranaki region and rapidly becoming one of the hippest places in New Zealand. So of course that’s where I want to be! Like many out-on-a-limb spots this seaside city has always […]

Categories: Art, fashion, New Zealand, Uncategorized • Tags: Discover Taranaki, Kinetic scupture, New Zealand, Nice Hotel, Ray Stitch, Reuben Patterson, Steve Molloy, Taranaki

New Caledonia salut!

Sunday 2 April 2017 by where2wearit

No one seems to know anything about New Caledonia – or Nouvelle Calédonie to give it it’s French name – which seems an excellent reason to visit. Even Stanfords of London, one of the world’s most venerable travel bookshops, couldn’t supply us with a proper map of this South Pacific archipelago. Neither could the tourist office in the capital, Nouméa, nor the Hertz hire car office – but fortunately we find this printed sarong! If you’d like to see my […]

Categories: Islands, Road Trips, South Pacific, Uncategorized • Tags: aquarium, French, mountains, Museums, New Caledonia

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