Oxford, London, Reading, UK

Towards the end of August, I flew back to my homeland of England because my husband was playing Reading Festival. I grew up always going to the festival so was excited to attend it once more, see some friends and just have a weekend filled with fun. Despite having a terrible time with missing connections on the flight over & a whole problem with United (don't ask) once I'd arrived (a day late) I was determined to forget the whole travel experience & have the best time. The whole weekend was brilliant. Saw some amazing music (even got a VIP pass for N.E.R.D!) and just had an all round top notch time. It felt good to be back in the UK for a few days ( I hadn't been back since November) and it felt amazing to be able to go to the shops and see all the wonderful new (to me) products that have surfaced since I've been gone. Obviously I made a couple of stops to some of my usual restaurants too, but here's what went down on my latest trip...

 

  L-R Me, Soraya, Rosie & Rowdy.                          Pharrel doing his thing on Main Stage

Nashville, TN

For the whole of May (& a bit of June) Caleb (my husband) has been finishing off his new album in Nashville. I have travelled through Nashville before, at a show here & there but never truly spent any time there, so I was excited to spend a few days here & there to explore. The most I know about Nashville? There's a lot of murals, and terrible, terrible county music is loved here. So armed with that knowledge, I drove down to visit him for a few days. And then again a couple of weeks later. And here are the places I spent time eating at...

Austin, TX

Last week my friend Rosie from England was visiting Austin,Texas and I definitely got on a plane to join her for a few days! I've been to plenty of places all over Texas, but strangely never here so I was excited for a new city to visit and explore! Side note - you should definitely follow Rosie's lifestyle blog (is that what they're called?) it's always a great read and actually (I would guess) has way more views than this, but still worth me mentioning.

OK, on with Austin!

Firstly, I have to talk about how I found it strange that Austin wasn't particularly GF friendly. I'm not sure why, but I honestly thought everywhere I'd go there would be symbols on the menus and bakeries galore etc and there just really wasn't anything of the sort. Maybe because people likened it to hip places such as Portland I thought it might be my friend, but it seemed to not really acknowledge GF and I was very surprised by this. I obviously was still able to eat everywhere (as you'll see) it just wasn't as easy as I had imagined.