I didn’t book a retreat. Nobody took my phone off me at check-in. Or made me sign up to a wellness package with a hushed, Wi-Fi-free yurt. This was an ordinary family holiday to Scotland. The only thing that turned it into a digital detox holiday was a decision I made myself. Phone off, in […]
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I’ve been known to throw my swimming bag in the car “just in case.” Sometimes it comes back out again, still dry. That’s errand stacking gone slightly wrong – adding something on because it’s theoretically efficient, not because it was ever actually going to happen The days I actually make it swimming aren’t the “just
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This week I only had three days. It’s the last week of term, and mine finished on Wednesday. So Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was all I had for work before the summer holidays swallowed the routine whole and the winging it starts for 6 whole weeks. Old me would have known exactly what to do
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I turn 40 in ten months. And unlike most milestone birthdays I’ve quietly watched approach and then pretended weren’t happening, this one feels different. This one feels like something worth leaning into. So I’ve been building my 40 before 40 list — forty things to do, experience, or finally stop telling myself I can’t do.
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I have a confession. When I first started my 50 at 50 challenge, I had no idea where it would take me. No spreadsheet. No master plan. No neat list of 50 carefully curated experiences to tick off one by one. What I had was a birthday, a big one, and a quiet but growing
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Some people travel to tick boxes. Slow Across the World is for the rest of us. This is a Love Life More travel series built around a simple idea: that the best experiences happen when you slow down, stay longer, and let a place actually get under your skin. No racing between airports. No fourteen
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Hi, I’m Ruth, and I’m going to be honest with you — I am not who you’d expect to be writing a travel series, and definitely not what I ever expected myself to be doing. But saying yes is a muscle I’ve been practicing. Let me tell you more. I’ve not been on many holidays.
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Can I ask you something? When was the last time you booked a holiday and the main motivation was to get away from your life rather than simply to explore somewhere new? If the answer is “every single time,” you’re in good company. Most of us use travel as an escape hatch. And for years,
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There’s a small card that has sat in my bathroom for over two years now. Right next to the loo, to be precise. It says ‘You Have to Have Passion’ and I found it on the floor one day, assumed it was my husband’s and propped it up thinking he’d deal with it. He didn’t.
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What if I told you that a two-day course, taken purely out of curiosity, would completely transform the trajectory of my life? February 2023 feels like a lifetime ago now, though it’s only been a couple of years. I signed up for Reiki Level 1 training not because I was seeking enlightenment or healing, but
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