Author: danniellegrace

5 DAY ITINERARY DAY ONE  Get lunch and explore Faro [Old town looks very cute and there are a few churches to visit around the area too. Palacio de Estoi is a palace, now hotel. Sao Lourenco is a small church that has an impressive interior of blue tiles]. Check into accommodation. Swim at a nearby […]

The south of Portugal, known as the Algarve, is lined by the Atlantic ocean with incredible rock formations and beautiful fishing towns. Many of the impressive beaches along the coast make lists of “top beaches in the world”. There is both lots to explore and equally enough places to sit back and relax. A holiday […]

JABULANI SAFARI …During the drive to Jabulani we went through a few villages and towns and got a quick little insight at the local living. There were many stalls on the side of the road selling a variety of things from fruit to house plants to hair cuts, malls, shops with bright self painted signs, […]

LION SANDS RIVER LODGE SOUTH AFRICAN SAFARI. A bucket list destination, an experience, a dream… …became our reality. After a few mishaps leaving France, 27 hours later we landed in Johannesburg with a connecting flight to Nelspruit airport and then a 2 hour drive to our first accomodation, Lion Sands River Lodge. Lion Sands is […]

NYC RECOMMENDATIONS We were there from 21st-27th October and it wasn’t too cold at all, we only had 1 day of rain then blue sky the rest of the week. It was only a bit chilly in the mornings but averaged around 18degrees each day. Now that we’ve got a feel of the city, we’d […]

…CONCRETE JUNGLE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADEEE OFFFF! I can’t believe people actually live there and its not just a huge movie set! So surreal seeing this city in real life and I definitely wasn’t ready for how magic it is. By the end of this blog I would’ve run through what we did in our […]

[16:8 is a fast where I eat for 8 hours and don’t eat for 16 hours. I choose the 8 hour window and I’ve gone with 10.30am – 6.30pm. I don’t follow rules at the best of times so I didn’t want too many rules and restrictions so I simply start eating around 10.30am and […]

When often asked about when I’m going to have a baby, I answer it like someone has asked when I’m going to jump out of a plane. “Not too sure, probably not anytime soon”. The past few years this question has come up so many times that I’ve now grown a protective layer of an […]

“You can never do something for the first time, twice”. You’ve known about the move for around 9 months, completed a few weeks of French lessons, have numerous people tell you how exciting this is and how lucky you are but you have no idea… no idea what’s ahead. You’ll pack your life and belongings into a couple […]

A MONTH ABROAD RE-CAP This is the longest we’ve been away on holiday all at one time. Ihaia hasn’t had 4 weeks off in a row from rugby as the breaks don’t work like that in NZ and in France the season goes for literally 11 months [10 months of games, around 1 month for […]