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Transport for London (TFL) announces;
From Sunday 6 July, all our buses are going cash free, so you will no longer be able to use cash to pay for your bus fare.
You can use an Oyster or contactless payment card to pay as you go. The single adult pay as you go bus fare is £1.45 with either of these cards.Continue reading “TFL buses go cash-free… Don’t forget your oyster”
Soho Square General Practice has been given notice that it will be closed at the end of September 2014 according to The Soho Society. The NHS General Practice located at the Soho Square Surgery at 1 Frith Street has 4,500 patients – myself included.Continue reading “Soho Square General Practice notice to close down”
Got a sweet tooth? Get your sugar fix in Soho… From Gail’s to Said’s, Snogs and Scoops these are a few of my favourite treats:
Continue reading “Sweet Soho: sugar and spice and all things nice”
Two months after over 200 school girls were kidnapped from their boarding school in Northern Nigeria by Boko Haram, the world is still calling for action to bring them back… And it started with a hashtag that went viral – #BringBackOurGirlsContinue reading “#BringBackOurGirls – Still calling for action!”
Paying homage to my African roots and love for exotic ethnic prints… This is when Harmattan came to soho!
What do you do when your photographer lets you down the night before Continue reading “Afrocentricity in Soho… The Harmattan shoot in Richmond Buildings”
My best friend was in town for a week and it didn’t take much persuasion to get a personal training session from the Brazilian account manager and #GetBiggerProject founder – Marcus Alvares (or as I call him, Kinho)! We headed to Better gym on Marshall Street bright and early for a bigger, better workout.
Now, you might think “Get Bigger Project” is all about pumping weights
Continue reading “The Better way: #GetBiggerProject with Kinho”
How can you resist a hot Italian bearing the gift of cooling luxury gelato?… Well I certainly couldn’t!Continue reading “CSers and me: Snowflake in Soho”
There’s a small possibility that I’m the envy of my neighbours who, I don’t doubt, peer out of their windows in amazement by the ins and outs of backpackers I welcome into my humble home. It could be that I’m just really cool and have friend all over the world (proving I’m not a loner)… Or it could be that I just really enjoy hosting Couchsurfers (and maybe I get a kick out of knowing my neighbours are peeping in bemusement) – plus, I’m cool!
So it wasn’t before long I had another group of CSers coming to visit. This time a brother and sister from Mexico.Continue reading “CSers and me: The real Wahaca!”
When the sun’s out, there’s no better way to get around London than with a Barclay’s bike – or as Londoners have nicknamed them, Boris bike in honour of our London Mayor.
With my best friend Kinho in town from São Paulo Brazil for just a week,Continue reading “When Boris biking goes wrong… (and a Brazilian guy)!”
originally published on Travel Making Kai
Across the English Channel lies a city said to be the ‘most romantic in the world’. There you can get lost in an array of beautiful sights, sounds and tastes with your loved one… It’s every girl’s dream to fall in love, even a singleton’s. So I took that journey across the channel to discover if a single girl can find pleasure in a city drenched in romance… Would I be seduced by a night in Paris and let my guard down all in the name of… Love?
“Hold your horses! We’re not even in Paris yet!”
Continue reading “A night in Paris… A city to fall in love with or be seduced by?”
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