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Maputu priest Indonesian Island Sumba Pasola Festival

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

A sporty time on Queensland’s Gold Coast

Tuesday 14 March 2017 by where2wearit

In April 2018 the XXI Commonwealth Games will take place in Queensland, Australia, so what better place to do a little limbering up than in the famous Gold Coast sunshine? The country’s sports stars are a friendly lot and seem happy to demonstrate some techniques to complete rookies like me. We meet up with beach volleyball Gold Medallist and five-time Olympian Natalie Cook, who is happy to let me join her team. Yikes! She’s so busy explaining techniques such as […]

Categories: Australia, Cities, Seaside Breaks, Uncategorized

A hop around Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Sunday 5 March 2017 by where2wearit

Kangaroo Island might sound like a location for an Enid Blyton story but it’s real, lives up to its name and is only one and a half hour’s drive south from Adelaide followed by a breezy 45 minute ferry ride. A hop, skip and a jump and you’re there. Here I am trying some hopping exercise – which certainly puzzles the roos! I decide it’s better to stick with hiking… The landscape here is more rugged than Margaret River in […]

Categories: Australia, France, Islands, Uncategorized, Walks

Alice & Co Down Under – Feb 2017

Sunday 12 February 2017 by where2wearit

After spending a couple of years teaching pattern cutting in north London at Fashion Capital and Ray Stitch, writing a pattern cutting book and keeping Alice & Co made to measure clients chic and well dressed, it seems like a good time to pack my flip flops and sunscreen and fly south. That’s way down south – to Perth in Western Australia – for the start of a three month adventure that will include hiking, biking, sailing and horse riding […]

Categories: Australia, Road Trips, Uncategorized • Tags: Australia, Cape to Cape Margaret River, Walk into Luxury

Debbie Harry at the Virgin Atlantic uniform launch party

Vivienne Westwood’s new uniforms for Virgin Atlantic

Sunday 31 August 2014 by where2wearit

If you’re flying Virgin Atlantic from 1st September 2014 you’d better travel in your best bib and tucker or you’ll be be upstaged by the crew! They’ve all been kitted out in very swish new uniforms designed by Vivienne Westwood – with red shoes and bags to match. They were unveiled at a glamorous launch party at Village Underground in London’s Shoreditch. Female cabin crew in red Vivienne Westwood – Alice in a grey Alice & Co all-in-one Dame Vivienne’s […]

Categories: Cities, London, Uncategorized, USA • Tags: Airline Uniforms, Alice & Co, Blondie, Debbie Harry, Village Underground, Virgin Atlantic, Vivienne Westwood

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