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Celebrating two years in Milan & Switzerland

For our wedding anniversary this year we escaped to Italy and Switzerland for a long weekend. We've wanted to go back to Switzerland since our Zermatt trip in January 2015 (I wrote about

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
4 min read
life

Is this really Scotland?

Blue skies, turquoise water, white sand beaches. At just under four hours drive from Edinburgh, the Silver Sands of Morar on Scotland's east coast can be reached. We camped for two nights at

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
2 min read
life

28 in Loch Tay

My third visit to Loch Tay in Perthshire and this time it was to celebrate my 28th birthday. Relaxing in front of a cosy fire, trips to a local pub and frosty walks

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
5 min read
life

A week in Ibiza

Ibiza wasn't the first place that came to mind when I'd think of where to go for a family holiday to celebrate a surprise 60th birthday. But that's where we ended up going,

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
3 min read
life

Three Days on the Isle of Skye

I've wanted to go to Skye ever since moving to Scotland almost eight years ago. Jon & I agreed that we wouldn't leave Scotland before we visited, and so we finally made it

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
3 min read
life

Where We Stayed in Barcelona

During our five day trip to Barcelona we stayed four nights in two wonderful hotels. Since it was a special trip for us (our first wedding anniversary), we wanted to stay somewhere memorable.

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
3 min read
life

5 Days in Barcelona

Barcelona or Iceland were our two choices for where we would spend our first wedding anniversary. The sunshine won in the end and we spent five wonderful days in sunny Barcelona. In High

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
2 min read
life

Mallorca

We spent 5 days exploring the beautiful and diverse island of Mallorca. I'm not sure why we had never though of visiting Mallorca before, but I am so glad we did. We stayed

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
4 min read
life

72 hours in Copenhagen: Day 3

Monday // Day 3 Our final day in Copenhagen began with more Danish pastries. We walked round the corner from our AirBnB and down a small alley to a Laura's Bakery - yum! We

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
4 min read
life

72 Hours in Copenhagen: Day 2

Sunday // Day 2 After a little lie in and still feeling full from last night's meal, we shared a leftover danish pastry that we brought back from Laura's Bakery yesterday to start us

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
4 min read
travel

72 Hours in Copenhagen: Day 1

Our long weekend trip to Copenhagen began with a flight from Edinburgh with Ryanair. The flights were under £50pp return, and took less than 2 hours (enough time for a couple of podcasts)

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
4 min read
wedding

Honeymoon in the Maldives

The Maldives was exactly what we wanted for our honeymoon. Full relaxation on a beautiful tropical island, with blue skies and the clear Indian Ocean. It was even better than I imagined it

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
3 min read
life

Quick Weekend Trip to London

Jon and I spent last weekend in London. We stayed just one night at Tower Bridge and travelled by train from Edinburgh. This was our first overnight trip to London together and we

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
2 min read
Around Edinburgh

Seacliff Beach & Bass Rock

This weekend was Jon's birthday weekend (hooray!) and we spent our Saturday in East Lothian. We started the day at Seacliff beach (they normally have a barrier charging £2 per car for parking

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
2 min read
travel

Zermatt, Switzerland (video)

Jon & I recorded a few video clips whilst we were in Zermatt, and I stuck them together to make the video above. (sorry about the youtube music...) You can see all our

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
1 min read
travel

Zermatt, Switzerland (in the sun)

The alarm went off on Sunday and we jumped to the end of the bed to open the blinds. It was still pretty dark outside but as our eyes adjusted we could make

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
3 min read
travel

Zermatt, Switzerland (in the fog & snow)

A few weeks ago Jon & I took a 2-night trip to Zermatt. It was our first trip to Switzerland together and it was beautiful. We flew cheap with Easyjet to Basel and

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
3 min read
travel

We're Engaged!

For our 9 year anniversary Jon took us away up North to Perthshire. It was a surprise trip, that somehow he managed to keep secret. We stayed at a beautiful cabin for 2

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
2 min read
travel

Loch Tay, Scotland

Last weekend Jon & I went up north to Loch Tay with 2 of our friends and their black labrador pup. This was our second time staying in Loch Tay (we stayed in

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
2 min read
travel

Glencoe Camping

At the end of August Jon and I went on a trip up north to Glencoe. Neither of us had visited Glencoe before. On the drive up I read a bit about the

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
3 min read
Around Edinburgh

Inchcolm Island & South Queensferry

As mentioned previously, my Dad came up to Edinburgh to visit and on the Sunday we went across to Inchcolm Island. The boat to Inchcolm leaves from South Queensferry, right under the Forth

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
2 min read
Around Edinburgh

Rosslyn Chapel

Last weekend my Dad came up to visit us in Edinburgh. Since he's been to Edinburgh a few times we decided to venture out to places just outside of the city. On Saturday

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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walk

Ben Vorlich - Munro #2

There are 282 Munros in Scotland and this is our second (Ben Lomond was our first). Ben Vorlich is 985m (3,232ft) high. We parked the car at Loch Earn and followed the

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
1 min read
life

Mountain Biking at Glentress

A few weeks back Jon and I went mountain biking at 7Stanes Glentress. We went to celebrate his 24th birthday (hooray!) and it was so much fun. I was pretty nervous about going

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
1 min read
travel

Insta Update

London. Two weekends ago I took a trip to London to visit a Uni friend. It was so much fun. We went out Saturday night and slept until 12 on Sunday. We did

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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