by Jacintha Verdegaal | Oct 8, 2013 | City trip, Europe, London, United Kingdom
Yes, it’s official… Autumn has arrived in London. Even though we’ve been lucky to get some nice sunny days lately, the changing color of the trees says it all. I actually love this season. Sure, I can do without the rain, storms, electric hair and...
by Jacintha Verdegaal | Oct 6, 2013 | Art & Culture
What would you define as a ‘good life’? And then an even harder question: how can you make it better? The title of the first Monocle book The Monocle Guide to Better Living may sound a bit presumptuous, but its content certainly isn’t. I would...
by Jacintha Verdegaal | Oct 1, 2013 | City trip, Europe, London, United Kingdom
I’m meeting my local guide Tobias from Insider London in the Andaz Hotel at Liverpool Street. Insider London offers different kinds of walking tours in London and they’ve invited me for their East End Explorer tour. I’ve been to this area before, but...
by Jacintha Verdegaal | Sep 29, 2013 | City trip, Europe, London, United Kingdom
It almost felt like I’d stepped into a Mary Poppins movie. With chimney sweeps and women walking around in Victorian dresses. King’s Cross went back in time this weekend to explore its gritty industrial past and to celebrate the transformation of the...
by Jacintha Verdegaal | Sep 22, 2013 | City trip, Europe, London, United Kingdom
The little girl next to me asking her mother ‘are we going to fall into the water?’ didn’t help, but the view from the London Eye was quite amazing nonetheless. Apparently it’s all about conquering my fear of heights lately, so when I got...
