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Art: A Tuscan Villa
This was painted by a family friend of ours, Tim Dolby. He’s a full-time artist and will travel around to find material for a new series of paintings, and then bring them all back to the UK...
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Art: Tribesmen in Uganda
This painting comes from Kampala, the capital of Uganda, and actually belongs to my mother, who is much more well-travelled than me when it comes to Africa. (Take a look at her guest post on...
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Postcard of the Week: Claude Monet at the Musée d’Orsay
On our first day in Paris during our recent trip, we headed to the Musée d’Orsay which lives in an enormous former railway station. We opted for a guided tour of the main masterpieces to get a...
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Art: Golden Wall Art in Laos
This is an incredible simple painting, and is one even a child could do. The contrast of the gold against the burgundy is striking and the texture of the paper underneath is due to it being...
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Street Art Walking Tour around East London
One of the things that stun me about London is how one city can have so many faces. Walking through Mayfair you’ll find imposing red brick architecture and grand white pillars flanking doors to...
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Guest Post: an Insider’s Guide to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh
Caroline Cant is a seasoned veteran of Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival, a month-long performing arts festival held every August in the Scottish capital. Here she imparts her essential tips for any newbie...
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Instagramming my travels from April – June 2013
Back in April I posted a summary of my travels over January, February and March 2013, as seen through the eyes of my Instagram account (you can find me at vstuarttaylor). If you’re on...
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What’s Hot in London Right Now
In my first post about Life in London, I promised to write a bit more about things to do in London, as it’s one of the most popular and important cities in the world. The capital city attracted...
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DTour Part 8: How to spend 3 days in Chicago
After the humid warmth of Texas it was a brutal awakening to find myself in freezing cold temperatures and icy winds in Chicago, in Illinois. I quickly made the switch from denim shorts and...
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Postcard of the Week: Pullman St Pancras Hotel in London
Last week a friend and I attended a launch party for a very exciting newly renovated hotel, the Pullman St Pancras, right next to King’s Cross St Pancras station – perfect location if you’re...
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Postcard of the Week: The British Museum
The British managed to colonise a stupidly large portion of the world and, along with exploiting and damaging various civilisations for centuries to come with our geographers’ haphazard...
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Instagramming my travels from July – September 2013
Back in August I posted a summary of my travels over April, May and June 2013, as seen through the eyes of my Instagram account (you can find me at vstuarttaylor). If you’re on Instagram then...
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Art: Mexican Lotería Tablas
I’ve sadly never been to Mexico, but I did come across these playing cards in San Antonio, Texas, on my recent DTour around North America. San Antonio is only 150 miles away (a 2.5-hour...
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Art: Woman & Children in South Africa
While I was in Johannesburg for One Young World we visited Soweto, a group of townships outside the city. En route we visited the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Orlando West, which was built to...
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Instagramming my travels from October – December 2013
I recently posted a summary of my travels over July, August & September 2013, as seen through the eyes of my Instagram account (you can find me at vstuarttaylor). If you’re on Instagram...
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How to Spend a Weekend in Padua (and Why I’m Dying to Move Back to Italy!)
If you saw my Postcard of the Week on Monday then you’ll already know that I spent last weekend sauntering around the Italian city of Padua (Padova in Italian). Now, I’m already a huge...
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Postcard of the Week: The Glamour of Italian Fashion at London’s V&A Museum
Gianfranco Ferré advert 1991 © Gianpaolo Barbieri I popped over to London from Madrid for a few days during the first bank holiday weekend of May (I do love the generous amount of public...
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Postcard of the Week: Turkish Ceramics
Although it looks like a photo, this is in fact a postcard, which I picked up last summer in Göcek, on Turkey’s Dalaman coast. We spent an idyllic week sailing from Marmaris to Fethiye aboard...
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Exploring the real, authentic, #NoFilter Madrid
A couple of weeks ago I wrote this blog post ‘Postcard of the Week: New York City (and musings on photo-editing and appreciating the here and now)‘ which should have been about New York, but ended up...
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Postcard of the Week: the Sorolla Art Museum in Madrid
One thing Madrid does have in abundance is art. It has three world-class art museums, the Prado, the Reina Sofia and the Thyssen-Bornemisza, containing some of the world’s best-known paintings...
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